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• Adrianus Jan Willem Goedhart, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adolf Verlinde, Oostrozebeke († 1955)
• ?? Mulder, (UT) Utrecht († 1873)
• Anke de Haan, Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Annie Pelke, Germany
• Anna Maria Catharina Verdin, Zepperen, België
• Ana Cândida Florence, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adriaantje Verhage, Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Anna L Busch, Brookfield Twp, Clinton, Iowa († 1949)
• Anna Catharina Kersten, Wanssum († 1955)

• Aagtje Bruin (0), Kolhorn
• Anna Barbara Bergmans (54)
• Adriana Breure (3), Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aagje van Duin (36), Harenkarspel
• Wessels (0), Rijssen
• Alegonda Berbera Posthumus (61), Leeuwarden
• Abraham de Mooij (72), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• ?? Mulder (0), (UT) Utrecht
• Adrianus Quirinus Schakenbos (0), Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alijda Block (68), Huissen, Nederland

• 1857 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia († 1930)
• 1860 » Tom Norman, English businessman († 1930)
• 1861 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1867 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1925)
• 1875 » Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter († 1951)
• 1880 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee († 1972)
• 1881 » George E. Wiley, American cyclist († 1954)
• 1882 » Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet († 1960)
• 1885 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor († 1969)
• 1889 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel († 1943)

• 1825 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)
• 1840 » Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (b. 1774)
• 1868 » Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
• 1872 » Alexander Loyd, American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1876 » William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795)
• 1887 » C. F. W. Walther, German-American religious leader and theologian (b. 1811)
• 1896 » H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)
• 1902 » Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)

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.
• April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
• April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

The temperature on May 7, 1873 was about 10.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.