About the day » Wednesday March 19, 1873Calender converter

• Akke Sytzes Koster, Eestrum († 1894)
• Albartus TELTING, Sneek
• Akke Timmenga, Tzum, Friesland, Nederland († 1946)
• Adrianus Doornhein, Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1873)
• Anne Joséphine Baudry, Athée, 21130, France
• Annetje Berghorst, Doornspijk († 1930)
• Aaltje Verheul, Pijnacker († 1945)
• Adrianus Josephus VAN DER HEIJDEN, Eindhoven (NL/NB)/Stratum († 1903)
• Anna Romkes († 1954)
• Akke Sytzes Koster, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1894)

• Angela Dienhart (0), Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Allegonda HEIJNEN (1854), Echt
• Albertis Achterberg (0), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertien Lanting (19), Zwinderen (Oosterhesselen) 3
• Anna Maria DOMS (79), Puurs,2870,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Albert Elings (27), Wageningen
• Aaltje van der Vuurst (65), Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Heemskerk (0), Rijnsburg
• Aaltje van de Vuurst (64), Gemeente Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aleida Goorhuis (36), Noord-Deuringen (Denekamp)

• 1864 » Charles Marion Russell, American painter and sculptor († 1926)
• 1865 » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic († 1937)
• 1868 » Senda Berenson Abbott, Lithuanian-American basketball player and educator († 1954)
• 1871 » Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach († 1921)
• 1872 » Anna Held, Polish singer († 1918)
• 1873 » Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1916)
• 1875 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord († 1928)
• 1876 » Felix Jacoby, German philologist († 1959)
• 1880 » Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate († 1961)
• 1881 » Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician († 1960)

• 1816 » Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (b. 1730)
• 1871 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
• 1897 » Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 » Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1900 » John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Albert
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Neeltje
12. Aaltje
13. Trijntje
14. Jacoba
15. Elizabeth
16. Antje

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
• April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
• September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.

The temperature on March 19, 1873 was about 3.3 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.