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• Albertine von Uexküll-Gyllenband († 1946)
• Alida Klootwijk, Dubbeldam († 1952)
• Adriaanje Klompenhouwer, Charlois (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Adriana Cornelia van REES, Strijen († 1872)
• Abraham de Jong, Bunschoten († 1872)
• Albertine von Uexkuell-Gyllenband, Waldgarten, Ostpreußen, Preußen, Deutschland († 1946)
• Adriaan Colijn, Almkerk-Uitwijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• van der Wal († 1872)
• Adrianus Treurniet, Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Antje Annes (Antje) Wijnstra, Langezwaag, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1910)

• Aloys Jaecques (9), Woumen
• Anna Helena Josephina Plessen (1), Simpelveld
• Adriaanus de GROOT (79), Zeeland,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Broeder (55), Sloterdijk
• Aaltje Hendriks Boelema (55), Achtkarspelen
• Maria Zijlmans (55), Raamsdonkveer
• de Boer (0), Lioessens, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Broeder (55), Sloten, prov. Noord Holland
• Anna Maria Driessen (17), BN
• Aletta Timmer, Maarsseveen

• 1857 » Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue († 1935)
• 1859 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 († 1935)
• 1862 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge († 1946)
• 1867 » Charles Henry Turner, American biologist, educator and zoologist († 1923)
• 1872 » Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, († 1946)
• 1878 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)
• 1889 » Artur Adson, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic († 1977)
• 1889 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter († 1968)

• 1813 » Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
• 1820 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 » George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)

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.
• January 12 » Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
• March 5 » George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• May 10 » Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• 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 18 » Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
• December 9 » In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.

The temperature on February 3, 1872 was about 2.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.