About the day » Sunday January 26, 1873Calender converter

• Anthonius Johannes Vonk, Steenwijkerwold, Ov, Nederland
• Aalt Oldenbroek, Kampen,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1959)
• Adrianus de Bree, Haarlemmermeer († 1875)
• ?? van Ringelensteijn, (GL) Tiel († 1873)
• Aalbert Swijnenburg, Ottoland
• Adriaan Bikker, Hoornaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriana van Dun, Vught († 1900)
• Alida Elisabeth Koks, Velsen-Noord, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1924)
• Anthonius Hendricus van der Lee, Utrecht, Utrecht, NL († 1873)
• Albertus Hendriks van Veen, Zwartsluis († 1906)

• Amalia Augusta de Beauharnais (60), Lissabon, Lisboa, Portugal
• Albertus Theodorus KNOOP (59), Nijmegen
• Anna van den Burg (1), Katwijk aan den Rijn
• Antje Baijl√© (31), Dokkum
• Anna Kotterink (4), Slagharen
• Anna Korterink- (4), Slagharen, Nederland
• Amélie Auguste Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais (60), Lisboa
• Albert Schutmaat (13), Holtheme
• Amélie von Leuchtenberg de BEAUHARNAIS (60), Lissabon, Portugal
• Amalia Auguste Eugenia de Beauharnais Prinses van Leuchtenburg (60), Lissabon

• 1861 » Louis Anquetin, French painter († 1932)
• 1864 » József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist († 1934)
• 1866 » John Cady, American golfer († 1933)
• 1877 » Kees van Dongen, Dutch painter († 1968)
• 1878 » Dave Nourse, English-South African cricketer and coach († 1948)
• 1880 » Douglas MacArthur, American general, Medal of Honor recipient († 1964)
• 1885 » Harry Ricardo, English engineer and academic († 1974)
• 1885 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian politician († 1959)
• 1885 » Per Thorén, Swedish figure skater († 1962)
• 1887 » François Faber, French-Luxembourgian cyclist († 1915)

• 1855 » Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (b. 1808)
• 1860 » Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
• 1869 » Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier; Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1846)
• 1870 » Victor de Broglie, French politician, 9th Prime Minister of France (b. 1785)
• 1885 » Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (b. 1833)
• 1885 » Edward Davy, English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)
• 1886 » David Rice Atchison, American general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, One of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)
• 1891 » Nicolaus Otto, German engineer, invented the Internal combustion engine (b. 1833)
• 1893 » Abner Doubleday, American general (b. 1819)

• 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 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.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
• September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
• 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 January 26, 1873 was about -1.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.