About the day » Saturday May 11, 1872Calender converter

• de Vlaming, Berkel en Rodenrijs († 1872)
• Alberta Keizer, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1949)
• Aart Willem van Ijsseldijk, Beverwijk
• Aafke van Gorkum, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland Nederland
• Verduin
• Agatha Juliana Honkoop, Woubrugge († 1936)
• Abraham Nikolaas Johannes Hankart, amsterdam († 1961)
• , Boekel († 1938)
• Alberta Keizer, Meppel, Nederland († 1949)
• Andreas August van Straalen, Groningen († 1952)

• Adriana Damen (56), Breda, Nederland
• Adrianus Pietersz Nobel (57), Lekkerkerk
• van Son (0), Wijk aan Zee, Nederland
• Aaltje Willems van den Belt (69), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Bekker (79), Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Allegonda Dijk van (58), Appeltern
• Aaltjen Gerrits, Heerde
• Adriana van Driel (25), Tholen
• Aaltje van den Belt (69), Heerde, Nederland
• Aaltje Reijmerink (49), 's-Graveland, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1854 » Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer († 1932)
• 1869 » Archibald Warden, English tennis player († 1943)
• 1871 » Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author († 1943)
• 1875 » Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter († 1912)
• 1881 » Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1881 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor († 1944)
• 1881 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer († 1963)
• 1888 » Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer († 1989)
• 1888 » Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral († 1945)
• 1889 » Paul Nash, British painter († 1946)

• 1848 » Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)
• 1882 » Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1816)
• 1889 » John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company (b. 1801)
• 1908 » Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
• 1918 » George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1920 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
• 1920 » William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)
• 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)

• 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 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.
• June 14 » Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
• July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
• September 18 » King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
• November 9 » The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

The temperature on May 11, 1872 was about 10.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.