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• * Cornelis van Cooten, Utrecht († 1947)
• (Stillborn) WILPSTRA, Grootegast Groningen Netherlands († 1873)
• Adrianus Johannes Josephus Visser, Rotterdam, Z-Holland (NL.) († 1921)
• Abigael Rodrigues de Miranda, Amsterdam († 1941)
• Adolphine Marthe Marie D'Hondt, Blankenberge († 1918)
• , Blankenberge 8370 BE († 1918)
• Aaltje Goorman, Diepenveen
• Aaltje Houtman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• * Hendrik Cornelis Ritte, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1952)
• Franciscus Verbiest, Woensdrecht

• Adriana BAREMAN (78), Axel, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Rutten (62), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje Verberne (54), Den Burg
• Alida Dekker (57), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Andries van Anrooij (3), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Lelivelt (20), Mook
• Anthonie LAZERON (77), Amsterdam
• Anna Margaretha Kock (24), Emen, Haren (Ems)
• Adriana Lelieveldt (20), Mook, Nederland
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van van Kessel (0), Ter Aar (Langeraar)

• 1862 » Frederick Delius, English composer († 1934)
• 1866 » Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter († 1944)
• 1866 » Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1944)
• 1867 » Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author († 1928)
• 1870 » Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet and civil servant († 1927)
• 1874 » John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist († 1960)
• 1876 » Havergal Brian, English composer († 1972)
• 1877 » Georges Catroux, French general and diplomat († 1969)
• 1880 » W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1881 » Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist († 1975)

• 1820 » George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1829 » István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1760)
• 1829 » Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French captain and politician (b. 1755)
• 1870 » Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 » Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
• 1888 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (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.
• January 17 » A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
• February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
• February 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
• 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.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

The temperature on January 29, 1873 was about -1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.