About the day » Monday October 21, 1872Calender converter

• Alpha Judd, Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1973)
• abraham Spruit, 's-Heerenhoek, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1873)
• alfred QUENON, Pâturages (Belgium) Hainaut
• Albertus Alblas, Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• - Beun, Weststellingerwerf († 1872)
• Adriana Maria van Lierop, Waalre († 1896)
• Alonisius Modestus DE VOLDER, Wielsbeke,8710,West Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen, België († 1950)
• Adrianus van Dijk, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1916)
• André Alphonse XHONNEUX, Sippenaeken († 1950)
• Adrianus Dijk van, Loon op Zand († 1916)

• Albertus Westerveld (0), de Pol (Steenwijkerwold)
• Anna Adriana de Vos (0), Middelburg
• Arie Brewel (0)
• "Andre" Marie Charles de Donnea (58), Temploux
• Anna Maria BONGAERDTS (62), Swalmen, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Aukes Boomsma (19), Harlingen, Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aan Weening (7), Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• - Beun (0), Weststellingerwerf
• Antje van der Graaf (0), Utrecht
• Aan Weening (7), Harkema-Opeinde, Achtkarspelen,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland

• 1851 » George Ulyett, English cricketer and footballer († 1898)
• 1868 » Ernest Swinton, British Army officer († 1951)
• 1874 » Tan Kah Kee, Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (d.1961)
• 1877 » Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist († 1955)
• 1884 » Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress († 1957)
• 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
• 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
• 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
• 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
• 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)

• 1821 » Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
• 1835 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 12 » Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
• March 22 » Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
• May 10 » Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• June 14 » Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
• November 9 » The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
• November 18 » Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.

The temperature on October 21, 1872 was about 8.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.