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• Andries Durks Tamminga, Birdaard, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1880)
• Akke van der Werf, Harlingen, Friesland, The Netherlands († 1904)
• Brehm, Vrijenban († 1943)
• Aaltje Weidiena Luikinga, Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert MULDER, Weststellingwerf
• Jansen, Renkum († 1877)
• Adrianus Ris, Schiedam († 1955)
• Aloysius Breugelmans, Wuustwezel († 1956)
• Angenietta Meijer, Woldendorp (Delfzyl), the Netherlands 2 SOUR @S7689@ († 1947)
• Albert de Ruiter, Stad Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland

• Adriaantje Kaptein (6), Mijnsheerenland
• Abraham (Abram) Krol (53), Sappemeer, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Benedictus Moors (1), Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• Anna van Gils (42), Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Lahey, Laheij (54), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adriana Poppe (1), Middelburg
• Anna Helena Ulleman (20), Rotterdam
• adriaan Oderkerk (63), Edam, Nederland
• Adriaan Oderkerk (63), Edam
• Anna van der Gaag (0), Vlaardingen

• 1864 » Max Weber, German economist and sociologist († 1920)
• 1868 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter († 1932)
• 1870 » Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1941)
• 1874 » Vincent Scotto, French actor and composer († 1952)
• 1882 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)
• 1887 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager († 1978)
• 1889 » Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., Russian-American violinist, composer, and conductor († 1985)
• 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)
• 1889 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)

• 1825 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1852 » Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782)
• 1900 » Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)
• 1910 » Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)
• 1918 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1924 » Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)

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.
• April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• July 21 » After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
• September 5 » American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.

The temperature on April 21, 1877 was about 5.2 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.