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• Aart Van Der GAARDEN, Barendrecht († 1958)
• Albert Helder, Schoonoord, Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1927)
• Alfred Frank Rumsey, Michigan
• Aaltje Bakker, Wanneperveen, Nederland († 1929)
• Adriana Maria Groenewegen, Naaldwijk († 1936)
• Albertus Bernardus van Scherpenzeel, Waverveen († 1873)
• Albertus Jordanus van den Heuvel, Beesd
• Albertus Jordanus van den Heuvel, Beesd († 1949)
• Albertus Rorije, Heerde (buurtschap Hoorn) († 1925)
• Aaltje Siemensd Bakker, Wanneperveen, ov.nld († 1929)

• Andrisina Everaert (90), Belsele
• * Johannes Sturkenboom (0), Houten, Utrecht, NL
• Arie Hogervorst (1), Alphen Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Zwaab (0), 's-Heerenberg, Gelderland, Nederland
• ANTJE SPAANDER (29), VOLENDAM
• Adriana Duijvelaar (50)
• Albert Jan Wiltink (68), Epse, gemeente Gorssel
• Alderina van der Zwaan (3), Monster, 2681, Nederland
• Andries van der Laaken (45), Amsterdam
• Adriana Laurina Nales (0), Gorinchem, Z-Holland (NL.)

• 1864 » Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence († 1926)
• 1867 » Prince Maximilian of Baden († 1929)
• 1871 » Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist († 1922)
• 1874 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor († 1971)
• 1875 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician († 1973)
• 1875 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist († 1955)
• 1877 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist († 1935)
• 1878 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor († 1943)
• 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)
• 1883 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general († 1948)

• 1806 » George Stubbs, English painter and academic (b. 1724)
• 1851 » Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 » Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (b. 1831)
• 1920 » John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1929 » Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)

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.
• 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 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• 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.
• September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
• October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.

The temperature on July 10, 1873 was about 21.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%.