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• Andries Sierds Papa, Opeinde († 1957)
• Aaltje Timmerman, Kalenberg († 1878)
• Adriaan Kooijman, Peursum († 1963)
• Algernon Cautley JEFFCOAT, Murree Punjab Pakistan (India) († 1963)
• Anna Maria Luijsterburg, Halsteren
• Anna Gertrud Schopen, Scherpenzeel (L) († 1960)
• Alida van der Voort, Voorhout († 1951)
• Anna Maria Christina Goldschmitz, Melick en Herkenbosch († 1945)
• Adriana Cornelia Fase, St. Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1964)
• Anna Maria Kan, Zaandam († 1877)

• Barbara Keuninkx, Udenhout
• Bauke Annes Boersma (70), Irnsum, Rauwerderhem, Friesland, Nederland
• Aagtje Dirksz Hartland (66)
• (73), Groesbeek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Barenbroek (83), Groningen, Gemeente Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia Woerdman (2), Twello
• Claasje van der Neut (76), Rotterdam
• Abraham van Wingerden (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Roelfs venema, Kolham gem. Slochteren
• Abraham van Wingerden (2 mnd) (0), Monster

• 1867 » Cupid Childs, American baseball player († 1912)
• 1867 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1933)
• 1870 » Nelson McDowell, American actor († 1947)
• 1871 » Guangxu Emperor of China († 1908)
• 1875 » Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian-American painter and illustrator († 1957)
• 1876 » Alexander I of Serbia († 1903)
• 1880 » Fred Alexander, American tennis player († 1969)
• 1881 » Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1953)
• 1883 » Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic († 1941)
• 1886 » Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic († 1950)

• 1854 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
• 1856 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
• 1860 » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
• 1870 » David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
• 1874 » Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)
• 1890 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
• 1905 » Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 » William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1829)
• 1926 » John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
• 1928 » Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)

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. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
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.
• January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
• March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
• June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
• September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
• October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
• November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

The temperature on August 14, 1877 was about 20.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.