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• Aaltje ten Zeldam, Diepenheim, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1875)
• Adriaantje Neeltje Knegt, Spijkenisse († 1907)
• Amerensia de VISSER, Schiedam
• Aafje Wemmers, Hoogblokland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1954)
• Anna Valkering, Limmen († 1969)
• Adriana Cornelia van Maasdam, Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands († 1959)
• Adrianus SCHREUDERS, Heerewaarden,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaan Jobse, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Abraham Wolf Reindorp, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Amandine MARGINET, Onkerzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1958)

• Aaltje Everts (74), Maassluis
• Antonia Maria Gesina Hecker (1), Wesuwe, Haren (Ems)
• Adrianus van Osch (69), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Leenders (0), Groesbeek
• Pen (0), Hontenisse
• Adrianus van der Heijden (51), Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)
• (Stillborn) Fiks (0), Wapenveld, Nederland
• Adrianus Osch (69), wateringen (Z-H), Nederland
• Arie de Snoo (19), Dubbeldam,Dordrecht
• Anna Maria Potargent (6), Bilzen Brugstraat

• 1865 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator († 1943)
• 1870 » Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1870 » Lord Alfred Douglas, English author and poet († 1945)
• 1873 » Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat († 1950)
• 1873 » Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator († 1906)
• 1875 » David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician († 1962)
• 1878 » Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1967)
• 1881 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1881 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist († 1908)
• 1882 » Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator († 1953)

• 1847 » Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian ruler (b. 1795)
• 1853 » Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan general and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1784)
• 1859 » Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
• 1883 » George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1856)
• 1883 » Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American soldier and author (b. 1818)
• 1885 » Lewis Majendie, English politician (b. 1835)
• 1891 » Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist and physician (b. 1846)
• 1902 » Herman Adolfovich Trautschold, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1817)
• 1906 » Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1914 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (b. 1866)

• 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.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
• September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
• October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

The temperature on October 22, 1873 was about 12.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 36 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.