About the day » Saturday March 22, 1873Calender converter

• Abraham Ju, Leiden († 1878)
• († 1893)
• Agnes Jacoba Maria Aalberse, Leiden († 1959)
• Abraham Marbus, Sassenheim, ZH, Nederland († 1950)
• Alida Adriana Maria Zwueste, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)
• Adriana Maria Kromwijk, Barwoutswaarder, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1925)
• Adrianus Cornelis van der Schaft, Mijdrecht († 1919)
• Rovers, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1873)
• Albert Jan Asveld, Hengelo-Woolde († 1954)
• Aart Polinder, Doornspijk († 1926)

• Anthonij Pannekoek (21), Zonnemaire gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zl. NL
• Adriana Servaes (79), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Antonette Hirschmann (37), Potchefstroom (ZA)
• Antonetta Schepers (1), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aletta Plomp (49), Uithoorn
• Anna Maria Boogaarts (72), 's-Gravenhage,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Ewaardt (0), Middelburg
• Anthonie Pannekoek (21), Zonnemaire
• Antje Olferts Smith (79), Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Bernards (61), Someren, NL

• 1866 » Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire († 1913)
• 1868 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1869 » Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer († 1939)
• 1873 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter († 1939)
• 1880 » Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach († 1960)
• 1884 » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician († 1951)
• 1884 » Lyda Borelli, Italian actress († 1959)
• 1885 » Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator († 1969)
• 1886 » August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia († 1963)
• 1887 » Chico Marx, American actor († 1961)

• 1820 » Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 » Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)

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.
• April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
• August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
• September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
• October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

The temperature on March 22, 1873 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.