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• Alida Smit, Bloemendaal († 1951)
• Adriaan Franciscus Peeters, Oosterhout († 1940)
• Assendelft 235
• Adrianus van Buren, Westmaas († 1879)
• Anna Elisabeth van den Bos, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Alida Verkaaik, Gouda († 1873)
• Adriana van der Ploeg, Zoeterwoude († 1949)
• Abraham Arie Vermij, hendrik Ido Ambacht († 1892)
• Abe Symens de Vries, Oldeboorn
• Abraham Frederik Clignett, Semarang

• Alt Tjards Hinrichs (68), Negenmeerten, Blomberg, Ostfriesland
• Antje Gaukes Bakker (0), Aengwirden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Schrier (0), Wissenkerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• van der Neut (0), Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aleijda van Driel (48), Bemmel, Lingewaard, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hogeweide (50), Putten
• Adriana Elisabeth Vos (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Schrier (0), Wissenkerke
• Adriana Catharina Mommers (38), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria van der Velden (78), Eibergen

• 1857 » Maurice Perrault, Canadian architect, engineer, and politician, 15th Mayor of Longueuil († 1909)
• 1858 » Harry Johnston, English botanist and explorer († 1927)
• 1858 » Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer († 1929)
• 1861 » William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire († 1927)
• 1864 » Frank Chapman, American ornithologist, photographer, and author († 1945)
• 1877 » Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician († 1971)
• 1883 » Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter († 1969)
• 1883 » Robert Lowie, Austrian-American anthropologist and academic († 1957)
• 1888 » Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic († 1920)
• 1890 » Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter († 1918)

• 1816 » Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757)
• 1818 » Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
• 1841 » Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)
• 1900 » Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
• 1904 » Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836)
• 1912 » Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)
• 1917 » Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1932 » Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (b. 1893)
• 1944 » Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)

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 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• 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 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
• November 22 » The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.

The temperature on June 12, 1873 was about 14.1 °C. There was 17 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.