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• "Otto" Weriand Hugo Ernst von Windisch-Graetz, Graz, Autriche († 1952)
• Alida Maria Jacoba Velders, Den Haag,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1913)
• Berger, Venlo († 1873)
• Adrianus Berdinus Dam, Oudshoorn na 1918 zie Zuid-Holland-Alphen aan den Rijn-Oudshoorn
• Aaltje Klaver, Zuidwolde
• Aaltje Smit, Kalkwijk, Hoogezand,, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Smit, Hoogezand († 1961)
• Alida Klapwijk, Bergschenhoek, Lansingerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1947)
• Albert Wesley Robbins, Pinegrove, Warren, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1958)
• ? ? († 1959)

• Alexander Frank (82), Nenderoth, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Aaltje Jans VAN SANTE ZANTEN (73), Kampen (NL/OV)
• Adrianus van Zelm (76), IJsselstein,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Abraham Anton van. Vloten (71), Brussel, B
• Aleida van Lier (63), Kekerdom, Nederland
• Alexandre Ghislain Gillieaux (57), Gilly, 6060, Charleroi, Henegouwen, Belgium
• Allegonda van Lier (63), Kekerdom
• Akke Klazes van der Woude (61), Leeuwarden
• Anna ZWANEVELD (86), Voorhout (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands)
• Akke Klazes van der Woude (61), Leeuwarden

• 1860 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician († 1936)
• 1866 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1942)
• 1870 » Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian († 1952)
• 1876 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer († 1934)
• 1879 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet († 1915)
• 1881 » Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general († 1918)
• 1884 » Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot († 1927)
• 1885 » Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient († 1948)
• 1885 » Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1962)
• 1887 » Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach († 1961)

• 1849 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1884 » Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)
• 1894 » Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1904 » Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
• 1906 » Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)

• 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 10 » The first Azerbaijani play "The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran" prepared by Akhundov was performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.
• April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
• 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 October 7, 1873 was about 15.1 °C. There was 10 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.