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• Aaltje Jelles Veenstra, drachten
• Alfredo Xavier de Almeida, Rio Negro, Paraná, Brasil († 1927)
• Adrianus Josephus Couwenberg, Oud Turnhout († 1965)
• Anna Catharina Oegerikusdr. de Nes, Beetgum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1875)
• Albert Edwin Edmonds, Auckland, New Zealand († 1947)
• Anna Josina Elisabeth Gildenhuys
• Ada Pitty, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia († 1959)
• Anna Schuring, Diever, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Jacomina van 't Veer, Kapelle († 1875)
• Alewijn Maan de Kok, St. Philipsland († 1903)

• Alberta (Bartje) KROUWEL (71), Utrecht, Nederland
• Annechien Geerts Veldhuis, Drouwen, Borger
• Anna van Esch (94), Cromvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Puijffelijck, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina VERRESEN (81), Zoersel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Aaltie van den berg (60), Wijk bij Duurstede
• Alijda van der Schelde (75), Amsterdam
• Adriana Puijfelik (68), Tilburg (Korvel),, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Johanna" Jeanne Anna Jeanne (94), Cromvoirt
• Aike Jans Tiggelaar (84), Midwolda

• 1860 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general and engineer († 1936)
• 1860 » Paul Peel, Canadian painter and academic († 1892)
• 1861 » Jeff Milton, American police officer († 1947)
• 1867 » Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1934)
• 1872 » Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist († 1956)
• 1872 » Lucille La Verne, American actress († 1945)
• 1876 » Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer († 1958)
• 1878 » Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic († 1968)
• 1879 » King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1879 » Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army († 1940)

• 1837 » Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (b. 1809)
• 1862 » Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (b. 1775)
• 1872 » Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1833)
• 1881 » John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 » Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1907 » Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (b. 1881)
• 1913 » Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
• 1919 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)

• 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.
• March 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• 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.
• 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 November 7, 1873 was about 7.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.