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• Anna Maria de Wilt, Uden
• Anna Margaritha Ruttens, Beek (Bree)
• Adriaan_(Adrianus) de Lange, Lage Zwaluwe († 1962)
• Broeders, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Moed, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Blonk, Nieuweveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Henriette Daamen, Amsterdam
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• * Wilhelmina de Vaan, Vlijmen († 1936)
• Adriana Leijs, Rilland en Maire

• Adrianus Cornelis van Rijswijk (0), Loon op Zand
• Adriana Johanna Bosdijk (1), middelburg
• Arthur Quintal (78)
• Alexander McKenzie (87), Moriah, Essex County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia van Eijnsbergen (1), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Barends (0), Wassenaar
• Abraham ten Hove (72), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aukje Zegers Jaring (30), Enkhuizen, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Lukens (Lucken) (74), Chester, Pennsylvania
• arie de JAGER (54), sliedrecht

• 1859 » Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator († 1935)
• 1862 » Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist († 1935)
• 1873 » Elizabeth McCombs, the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand († 1935)
• 1875 » Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union († 1946)
• 1876 » Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist († 1964)
• 1877 » Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival († 1947)
• 1883 » Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer († 1957)
• 1887 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1888 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian († 1942)
• 1889 » Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1966)

• 1822 » Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
• 1828 » Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1797)
• 1850 » Richard Mentor Johnson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
• 1868 » Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
• 1883 » Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
• 1887 » Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
• 1897 » William Seymour Tyler, American historian and academic (b. 1810)
• 1910 » Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist (b. 1879)
• 1918 » Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)

• 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.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

The temperature on November 19, 1873 was about 8.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.