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• ?? Stolk, Rockanje († 1877)
• Kamerbeek († 1877)
• 'Baron' René Joseph Marie Ghislain de VIRON, Dilbeek, 1700, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique († 1945)
• Alfred Jean Jozef van Eeden, St Jans-Molenbeek († 1942)
• Alice M. Love
• Anna Gertrudis Smolders, Nederweert († 1964)
• Adrianus van den Bogaard, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Tooren van, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1951)
• Aaltjen Klein Zessink, Hengelo, Gemeente Bronckhorst, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1940)
• Adriana Anthonia Visser, 's-Gravenzande (Z-H), Nederland († 1958)

• Ann Baily (91), West Marlborough, Chester County, Pennsylvania
• Alida (Aaltje) Hoogedam \ Hoogendam (80), Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anton Gotthard Graaf Schaffgotsch-Semperfrei van en tot Kynast-Greiffenstein (76), Brno (Brünn), Zuid-Moravië, Tsjechië
• Aaltje Brink, van den (76), Kesteren, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Amelia Charlotta Wilhelmina van der Palm (0), Batavia
• ?? Stolk (0), Rockanje
• Adrianus Henneveld (57), Monster
• Anna Beckers (51), Boorsem, Maasmechelen (B)
• Anna Petronella de Man (0), Weesp (Gem Amsterdam), Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• aaltje BOENDER (1), rockanje

• 1868 » Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, singer, and director († 1947)
• 1868 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist († 1963)
• 1873 » Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar († 1929)
• 1874 » Konstantin Päts, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Estonia († 1956)
• 1878 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist († 1935)
• 1883 » Guy C. Wiggins, American painter († 1962)
• 1883 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher († 1969)
• 1889 » Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor († 1975)
• 1889 » Musidora, French actress and director († 1957)
• 1889 » Victor Fleming, American director, cinematographer, and producer († 1949)

• 1848 » John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1855 » Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
• 1859 » Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 1879 » Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
• 1897 » Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (b. 1828)
• 1900 » Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Jacoba
15. Antje
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• May 8 » At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
• July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
• October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
• December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.

The temperature on February 23, 1877 was about 4.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.