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• Aaltje van Lier, Steenwijk († 1940)
• Antje Klazes Wassenaar, Dronrijp, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elizabeth Knol, Wanneperveen († 1905)
• Albert Kochmann MD, Gliwice, Slaskie, Poland († 1953)
• Aaltje van Lier, Steenwijk († 1940)
• , Brugge
• Alfred Jacob Zobel, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten († 1949)
• Anna Maria Elizabeth Fredriks Knol, Wanneperveen († 1905)
• Antonius Hubertus Alphonsius Heuts, Oud-Valkenburg, Limburg, Nederland († 1943)
• Anna Maria Elizabeth Knol († 1905)

• (53), Boom, Belgi
• Aan Gerrits KOOISTRA (80), Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands
• Adrianus den Outer (48), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Hendrika Wesselink Klein (58), Noordink
• Anna Christina Louisa Havelaar (31), Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Anna Adriana Stroombeek (23), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aarn Gerrits Kooistra (80), Britsum, gem. Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexander Jacobus Everaert (34), Luik
• Alderdina Ousema (0), Holwierde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Bareman (53), Terneuzen (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland

• 1861 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-British poet and playwright († 1929)
• 1863 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator († 1914)
• 1874 » George Harrison Shull, American botanist and geneticist († 1954)
• 1874 » Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1875 » James J. Jeffries, American boxer and promoter († 1953)
• 1877 » Georg Kolbe, German sculptor († 1947)
• 1878 » Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright († 1956)
• 1879 » Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet († 1980)
• 1883 » Stanley Bruce, Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia († 1967)
• 1885 » Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general († 1947)

• 1854 » Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)
• 1861 » Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
• 1865 » Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1888 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 » Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
• 1912 » Victims of the Titanic disaster:
• 1917 » János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)

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.
• February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
• 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.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.

The temperature on April 15, 1873 was about 20.4 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 40%.