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• Adriana Johanna Bernard, Gorinchem
• Adriana Johanna BERNARD, Gorinchem
• Adriana Jacoba I Langbroek, Dinteloord († 1874)
• Aagje (Agie vd Koolsnijer) Molenaar, Volendam († 1964)
• Abraham Nathan van Gelder, Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland)
• Adrianus van den Bosch, Opijnen, Nederland
• Adriaan van DuijvenbOden, Katwijk († 1876)
• Allegonda MANDERS, Stiphout
• Alouisia Henrica van Oppenraaij, Elst, Gelderland, Nederland († 1923)
• Aloijsia Henrica van Oppenraaij, Elst (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland († 1923)

• Andries Hazebroek (34), Rotterdam
• Arie Pieter Hogervorst (3), Nootdorp
• Andries Melisz Van Der WULP (72), Dubbeldam
• Catharina Bastiana Johanna Alexander Zuijdam van (1), Nootdorp, ZH, Nederland
• Andries van der Wulp (72), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Christianen (0), Etten-Leur
• Carolina van Uffelen (20), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Gertruda van den Broek (71), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Arie Claas van Duijvenbode (12), Alphen aan de Rijn
• Antonius Kenters (2), Rotterdam

• 1862 » Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1946)
• 1865 » John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania († 1932)
• 1867 » Emil Krebs, German polyglot († 1930)
• 1868 » Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer († 1947)
• 1873 » Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic († 1945)
• 1874 » August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1874 » Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner († 1941)
• 1879 » Lewis Stone, American actor († 1953)
• 1881 » Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author († 1960)
• 1882 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist († 1965)

• 1832 » Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (b. 1767)
• 1845 » William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (b. 1803)
• 1853 » Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819)
• 1892 » Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)
• 1897 » Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)
• 1908 » Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)
• 1910 » Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
• 1916 » Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1917 » Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)

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.
• April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
• April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

The temperature on November 15, 1873 was about 4.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.