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• Aaltje Sybranda, AEngwirden
• Adriana Eliza Noordanus, Den Haag († 1930)
• 2e Janna Berendina Roerdinkholder (Slatman-Kotten), Kotten-Winterswijk († 1950)
• Adrianus van Beek, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Alfred Alexander Ablowich, unbekannt († 1953)
• Adriana Tiebosch, Dinther († 1872)
• Aagje de Mik, Stolwijk († 1963)
• Abraham Engelander, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Aaltje Withaar, Meppel

• Aate Feijes (Ate) Hoekstra (71), Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Klincker (79)
• Anje JAKOBS Doornbos (76), (GR) Hellum
• Adolf Hendrik Beijer (38), Loenen
• Anna Hinderks MOORLAG (41), Bourtange, Groningen, Nederland
• Aagje MARS (5), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Brouwer (36), Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Adriaan Tabak (65), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Martens (52), Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Adolf Schinkel (1), Grafhorst, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1864 » Arthur Collins, American baritone singer († 1933)
• 1867 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author († 1957)
• 1870 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist († 1937)
• 1871 » Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist, composer, and conductor († 1927)
• 1873 » Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)
• 1878 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor († 1936)
• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)

• 1837 » Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
• 1849 » Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (b. 1797)
• 1862 » Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
• 1864 » Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
• 1871 » Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (b. 1797)
• 1873 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
• 1878 » Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1891 » Marie Louise Andrews, American story writer and journalist (b. 1849)
• 1897 » Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
• 1919 » William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (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.
• January 12 » Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
• February 22 » The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
• June 14 » Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
• November 18 » Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election 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.
• December 21 » Challenger expedition: HMSChallenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.

The temperature on February 7, 1872 was about 10.9 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.