About the day » Saturday December 21, 1872Calender converter

• Alle Siemens de Boer, Tolbert († 1950)
• Adriana Maria Leeflang, Schiedam
• Aaltje (Alice) Tillema, Eenum (Gem. 't Zandt) († 1913)
• Wolters, Eulenbusch
• Albertus Josephus De Ceulaerde, Borgerhout († 1921)
• Alice Yeazell, Clark County, Ohio
• Adrianus van der Krogt, Zoeterwoude († 1935)
• Adrianus Arnoldus van der Krogt, Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland († 1935)
• Adolf van Rooijen, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1873)
• Adriana Maria Leeflang, Schiedam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Maria Tromp (65), Velsen
• Arie Jacobs Pronk (76), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Adriana Pijpers (26), Gilze en Rijen
• Alida Prins (0), Brielle, Nederland
• Annetje Zevenbergen (58), Poortugaal
• Antje Postma (78), Kollum, Nederland
• Apolonius van der Plank (40), Vlissingen, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Willemina Bemelaar (68), Zwolle
• Aaltje Kool (68), Nibbixwoud,Gemeente Medemblik,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aaltje Freeks' Kool (68), Nibbixwoud

• 1859 » Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic († 1936)
• 1866 » Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and political activist († 1953)
• 1868 » George W. Fuller, American chemist and engineer († 1934)
• 1872 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1872 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian priest and composer († 1956)
• 1872 » Trevor Kincaid, Canadian-American zoologist and academic († 1970)
• 1876 » Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales († 1975)
• 1877 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar († 1954)
• 1878 » Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish-Irish mathematician and philosopher († 1956)
• 1884 » María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist († 1951)

• 1807 » John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725)
• 1824 » James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
16. Petronella

• 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.
• February 22 » The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
• March 11 » Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
• March 16 » The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
• 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.
• November 9 » The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
• December 4 » The crewless American brigantine Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board are never accounted for.

The temperature on December 21, 1872 was about 7.5 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.