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• Aart SCHIPPER, Zaandijk, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Albert Meijers, Sleen († 1948)
• Aaltje de WAART, Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1883)
• Aafke Nagengast, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1878)
• Anna van der Vaart, Haarlem († 1955)
• Agatha Maria van Kats, Lopik († 1962)
• Anna van der Vaart, Haarlem († 1955)
• Aaltje Johanna Ploeg, Beekbergen
• Alina Verheyden, Moerzeke († 1961)
• Adrianus Leendert Brabander, Monster († 1952)

• Adolf Okkes Pathuis (75), Nieuwolda Oldtambt Groningen Nederland
• Adriana Bijl (80), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Vendrig (2), Kamerik
• Antonia Aletta Tellegen (70), Enschede,Gemeente Enschede,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Antonia Aletta Tellegen (70), Enschede
• Amandus Pauwels (0), Geel, Antwerpen, België
• Berendina Hartgers (0), Willemsoord, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana BIJL (80), Sliedrecht
• Andreas Slegers (77), Turnhout, België
• Agnes Claire Dely, Kachtem, België

• 1869 » Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor († 1945)
• 1871 » Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist († 1948)
• 1871 » William Heard Kilpatrick, American pedagogue († 1965)
• 1873 » Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic († 1953)
• 1873 » Georges Caussade, French composer († 1936)
• 1873 » Ramón Castillo, Argentine politician († 1944)
• 1873 » William Coblentz, American physicist († 1962)
• 1874 » James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal († 1958)
• 1875 » Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat († 1944)
• 1876 » Rudolf Koch, German designer († 1934)

• 1856 » Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
• 1864 » Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
• 1866 » Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1880 » Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1882 » Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
• 1886 » William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1894 » Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829)
• 1898 » Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
• 1903 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867)
• 1903 » Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier

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.
• 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 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• 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 November 20, 1873 was about 7.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.