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• Albert Beugeling, Lhee (Dwingeloo) († 1899)
• Le Roux
• Aaltje Zandt, Uithuizermeeden († 1920)
• Abraham van der Gaag, Delft, Nederland († 1959)
• Aart Henri Johan Abraham (Johan) VAN KUIJK, Rotterdam († 1953)
• Aaltje Jans Hartkamp, Aldehaske († 1896)
• Alphonsus De Moor, Stabroek († 1911)
• Aart Henri Johan Abraham van Kuijk, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Theodorus van Kesteren, Lisse
• Aart Henri Johan Abraham van Kuijk, Rotterdam († 1953)

• Albert Rijpkes Beukema (77), Zoutkamp
• Adélaïde Joseph DELEFORTRIE (97), Escobecques,59320,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Antje van der Spek (65), Moerkapelle
• Aeisso Knijpenga (3), Termunterzijl
• Albertus Nijeboer (26), Sibculo
• Anna Maria Schriever (48), Düthe, Fresenburg
• Antje Petronella Groeneveld (0), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Stratum (86), Deurne en Liessel
• Antje Arishoek (79), Rijpwetering
• Abraham Clymer Shaddinger (83)

• 1865 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright († 1909)
• 1867 » Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster († 1930)
• 1873 » Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator († 1944)
• 1879 » James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and politician, 49th United States Secretary of State († 1972)
• 1880 » Bill Horr, American football player, discus thrower, and coach († 1955)
• 1882 » Isabel González, Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship († 1971)
• 1885 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist († 1966)
• 1886 » Gottfried Benn, German author and poet († 1956)
• 1887 » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager († 1951)
• 1887 » Vernon Castle, English-American dancer († 1918)

• 1857 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (b. 1810)
• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)
• 1925 » Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)

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.
• June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 10 » Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

The temperature on May 2, 1877 was about 4.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.