About the day » Monday December 2, 1872Calender converter

• Alphonse Gramme
• Adriana Oomens, Hoge en Lage Zwaluwe
• -nn- Stoutjesdijk, Bruinisse, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1872)
• Ana Lages, Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil († 1925)
• Andries Stap, Buurmalsen, 4197, Nederland († 1949)
• * Hendricus van Wanrooij, Erp († 1951)
• Adelaide Urbanie Convent, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1917)
• Aafke de Jong, Wijnjeterp
• Adriana Stam, Loon op Zand († 1957)
• Anna Christina barones van der Feltz, Twello,Gemeente Voorst,Gelderland,Netherlands,huis De Dijkhof († 1961)

• Antje Knijnenburg (55), Wassenaar
• Anna Catharina Pelupessij, Amboina, Molukken, Indonesië
• "Alix" Julie Blanche de Bertier de Sauvigny (63), château de La Verrerie, Blaye-les-Mines, Tarn, France
• Annigje Slingerland (87), Lekkerkerk
• Aart Rietveld (0), Gouda
• Stoffels (5)
• Agidius Franciscus Philippus van Beneden (78), Maastricht
• ANNA MARIA CAEYERS (5), MOL
• -nn- Stoutjesdijk (0), Bruinisse, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Andries Pieters Ellens (40), Achtkarspelen, NL-FR

• 1859 » Georges Seurat, French painter († 1891)
• 1860 » Charles Studd, England cricketer and missionary († 1931)
• 1863 » Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus († 1926)
• 1866 » Harry Burleigh, American singer-songwriter († 1949)
• 1876 » Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism († 1935)
• 1884 » Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand soldier, lawyer, and judge († 1953)
• 1884 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet and author († 1958)
• 1885 » George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1891 » Charles H. Wesley, American historian and author († 1987)
• 1891 » Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator († 1969)

• 1844 » Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1792)
• 1859 » John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1881 » Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
• 1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
• 1888 » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (b. 1875)
• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1924 » Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist and philologist (b. 1879)

• 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.
• February 20 » The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
• July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
• November 29 » American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
• November 30 » The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• December 21 » Challenger expedition: HMSChallenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.

The temperature on December 2, 1872 was about 8.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.