About the day » Sunday April 14, 1872Calender converter

• Aagje Noordermeer, Oostvoorne, 3233, Nederland († 1915)
• Albertine Valérie HUGON, Liège, 62063, Liege, Belgique († 1899)
• Amy Harriet Webster, Grahamstown, South Africa
• Albertus Douwes Andringa, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1935)
• Anna Margaretha Pfrommer, Würzbach, Calw Oa, Württemberg, Dld
• Adriana van den Bemt, Standdaarbuiten († 1873)
• Andries van der Woerd, Zoelen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1942)
• Anna Margaretha Pfrommer, Würzbach,Calw Oa,Württemberg,Dld
• * Sander Evert Dortland, Gouda († 1950)
• Adriana Pieternella van der Esch, PAPENDRECHT, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)

• * Jordanus van den Heuvel (1), Beesd, Gelderland, NL
• Anthonius Gerardus Wilhelmus Blom (22), Abcoude, Utrecht, Nederland
• Schleijer (0), breda
• Adrianus Beerens (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Vermolen (Vermeulen) (73), Chaam
• Aaltje Hendriks Dam (0), Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Hillegonda van Vliet (0), Wageningen
• Anna Carolina Provost (78), Sint Niklaas (B)
• Abraham Willemsen (0)
• Anna Rooda (22), Middelstum

• 1865 » Alfred Hoare Powell, English architect, and designer and painter of pottery († 1960)
• 1866 » Anne Sullivan, American educator († 1936)
• 1868 » Peter Behrens, German architect, designed the AEG turbine factory († 1940)
• 1870 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer and coach († 1929)
• 1870 » Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter and educator († 1905)
• 1872 » Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator († 1953)
• 1876 » Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge († 1934)
• 1881 » Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar († 1948)
• 1882 » Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1936)
• 1886 » Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar († 1956)

• 1843 » Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
• 1864 » Charles Lot Church, American-Canadian politician (b. 1777)
• 1888 » Emil Czyrniański, Polish chemist (b. 1824)
• 1910 » Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1856)
• 1911 » Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1880)
• 1911 » Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
• 1912 » Henri Brisson, French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Hubert Bland, English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
• 1916 » Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1847)
• 1917 » L. L. Zamenhof, Polish physician and linguist, created Esperanto (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.
• March 1 » Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
• March 5 » George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• March 11 » Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
• 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.
• 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 9 » The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

The temperature on April 14, 1872 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 55%.