About the day » Sunday November 24, 1872Calender converter

• adriana den OUDEN, zuid-beijerland
• A Burdett Millett, Nova Scotia
• Aaltje van de Weg, Oldebroek, Gld. Nederland
• Aaltje Slooten, Zaandijk († 1941)
• Maria Cornelia Van Geel, Halsteren († 1872)
• Albert Stalman, Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland
• Agatha Maria Theodorus Siersma, Leeuwarden († 1944)
• Aaltje van Sinderen, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1920)
• Adriaan Bosselaar, Oost en West Souburg († 1872)
• Adriana Ariesd. den Ouden, Zuid Beijerland (ZH Nederland)

• Anje Geerts Kaijer (75)
• Anna Johanna Merkx (0), Zwijndrecht
• Aletta Maria Vroon (3), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafke HILLEBRANDS (76), Usquert, Groningen, Nederland
• Alina Lucas (68), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Amelia VAN de WALLE (76), Schorisse,9688,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Adrianus de Graaf (20), Breda
• Akke Egberts (Aukjen) van der Ploeg (Elderhuis) (82), Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland
• Amelia Van de Walle (76), Schorisse
• Adriaan Fortuin (0), Colijnsplaat

• 1864 » Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator († 1901)
• 1868 » Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer († 1917)
• 1869 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal († 1951)
• 1873 » Herbert Roper Barrett, English tennis player († 1943)
• 1873 » Julius Martov, Russian politician († 1923)
• 1874 » Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee († 1953)
• 1876 » Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra († 1937)
• 1877 » Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States († 1956)
• 1877 » Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer († 1941)
• 1879 » Wylie Cameron Grant, American tennis player († 1968)

• 1848 » William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
• 1870 » Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1846)
• 1885 » Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (b. 1837)
• 1890 » August Belmont, German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Erskine Childers, Irish soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)

• 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.
• May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• June 14 » Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
• July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
• September 18 » King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
• November 18 » Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
• November 30 » The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.

The temperature on November 24, 1872 was about 10.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.