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• Anna Helena Vester, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Susanna Herzberg, Soerabaja (Ned. Indië) († 1944)
• Maria van Rijn, 's-Gravenzande († 1873)
• Aajte GROMMERS, Oldehove Groningen Netherlands († 1941)
• Aaltje van der Kamp, Sneek, Nederland
• Adriana Mosterd, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland († 1872)
• Adriaan Faasse, St. Philipsland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1872)
• Adriana de Klerk, Kapelle, ZL, NL († 1930)
• anna melius, amsterdam († 1931)
• Andries RUTTEN, Helden, Limburg, Netherlands († 1935)

• Amelia Juliana van BIERVLIET (60), Hooglede, 8830, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Aafke Synes van der Goot (34), Schingen
• Andries Dreessen (0), Berkhout
• Alida Jantina Nees (1), Amsterdam
• Albert Witvoet (0), Nieuw-Amsterdam
• Annechien Berends van der BEEK (86), Tripscompagnie, Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Bruijn, Den Haag,Gemeente ·Äôs-Gravenhage,South Holland,Nederland
• Aletta Maria Rebecca BARKEY (69), Leiden, 6115, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jacobse Bruijn (68), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje Vegter (56), Nuis

• 1865 » John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1865 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1867 » Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter († 1950)
• 1869 » Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator († 1936)
• 1869 » Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic († 1918)
• 1878 » Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer († 1949)
• 1879 » Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster († 1964)
• 1879 » William Stickney, American golfer († 1944)
• 1880 » Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist and academic († 1967)
• 1882 » Marie Doro, American actress († 1956)

• 1849 » Benjamin D'Urban, English general and politician, Governor of British Guiana (b. 1777)
• 1895 » Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
• 1912 » Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
• 1917 » Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
• 1919 » Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1889)
• 1926 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1927 » Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1876)

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 5 » George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• 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.
• March 22 » Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
• 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 30 » The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• 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 May 25, 1872 was about 15.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.