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• Anna Henriëtte Cornelia Klencke, Kedong Kebo, Indonesië († 1938)
• Anna Compier, Mijdrecht († 1873)
• Anna Henriëtte Cornelie Klencke, Kedong Kebo (Ind) († 1938)
• Alfredo Mário Vieira, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1928)
• ADRIANUS JOHANNES VAN BAAREN, Utrecht († 1929)
• Anna Elisabeth van Ieperen, Vianen, Nederland († 1892)
• Annetta Anthonia Scheepmaker, Loosdrecht († 1959)
• Alida Burgerhout, Kralingen,,Nederland († 1917)
• Anna Sluijter, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1892)
• alida burgerhout, rotterdam

• Adrianus Verbeek (0), Tiel, GLD, Nederland
• Bontje Jansd Woudstra (80), Weststellingwerf =Wolvega, fr.nld
• August Friedrich von Köstlin (81), Stuttgart
• Albert Verbaarschot (0), Texel
• Catherine McIlvaine (91), Strabane, Adams, PA, United States
• Catharina van de Wildenberg (71), Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren
• Arie van Seters (0), Rozenburg
• AART DEN HOED (14), Ridderkerk
• Antonia van Loon (0), Drunen
• Barbara Stoppelenburg (0), Stolwijik

• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)
• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)
• 1871 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia († 1939)
• 1876 » Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author and playwright († 1958)
• 1877 » Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1960)
• 1880 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1880 » Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist († 1943)
• 1881 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer († 1959)

• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)

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 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
• March 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
• 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.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

The temperature on August 12, 1873 was about 16.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.