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• * Klazina Johanna Hoogendoorn, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel († 1937)
• Anna Maria Smits, Baarlo
• Antje Boetje, Doezum gem. Grootegast († 1943)
• Aline La Fontaine, Pekalongan, Java Nederlandsch Indie
• Annigje Dijksma, Nijeveen († 1942)
• Anna Catharina Gerritzen, Ottersum († 1955)
• Adriana van der Schans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1873)
• Alphons Petrus Hubertus Viegen, Maastricht 428 († 1891)
• Antje Edsges Boetje, Doezum, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriana van Zoelen, Zaltbommel

• Adrianus Marinus van Wittmarschen (1), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Ommen (45), Nieuw-Amsterdam
• Aagje Werie (35)
• Aagje Werrie (34), Montfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriaantje Beuzekom (60), Meerkerk
• Adrianus Kerssen (69), schiedam (zuid holland)
• Anna Geertruij Broekhoven (54), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Arnoldina Wenniger (31), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis Dickens (0), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje Werrie (34), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1858 » Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch († 1939)
• 1872 » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer († 1917)
• 1878 » Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer († 1945)
• 1879 » Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist († 1958)
• 1883 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village († 1978)
• 1883 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician († 1966)
• 1884 » Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia († 1948)
• 1886 » Santo Trafficante, Sr., Italian-American mobster († 1954)
• 1888 » Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Estonia († 1942)
• 1888 » Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English author and educator († 1947)

• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1904 » Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)
• 1927 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (b. 1870)

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.
• January 17 » A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
• 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 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
• September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

The temperature on May 28, 1873 was about 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.