About the day » Friday December 19, 1873Calender converter

• Adriaan Bosselaar, Oost en West Souburg († 1875)
• Anna Gertrudis Schreurs, Grathem († 1931)
• Aartje Van De Weerd, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1957)
• Achiel Wostyn († 1934)
• Aaltjen van den Berg, Urk († 1874)
• Kortenbosch, Maartensdijk († 1873)
• Annigje Elizabeth van Vuuren, Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Annigje Elizabeth van Vuuren, Lekkerkerk, Nederland († 1935)
• * Gerrit Oskam, Ameide († 1933)
• Adrianus Imandt de Heer, Nieuw-Beijerland

• Aafke Gerrits de Boer (23)
• Berend van den Beld (57), Heerde
• Catharina (trijntje) Nooij (32), Ilpendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Catherine (Anna) Buntinx (86), Sint-Truiden, België
• alexander van den BERG (0), oud-beijerland
• Antonius Steenbergen (0), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuidplas, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia ELSELING,VAN (67), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Steenbergen (0), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
• Carolina Beijnen (0), Putten
• Auke Cornelis Dijkstra (29)

• 1861 » Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright († 1928)
• 1863 » Wallace Bryant, American archer († 1953)
• 1865 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright († 1932)
• 1873 » Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer († 1913)
• 1875 » Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month († 1950)
• 1875 » Grace Marie Bareis, American mathematician († 1962)
• 1875 » Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist († 1948)
• 1876 » Bernard Friedberg, Austrian-Israeli scholar and author († 1961)
• 1884 » Antonín Zápotocký, Czech politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic († 1957)
• 1888 » Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor († 1963)

• 1819 » Thomas Fremantle, English admiral and politician (b. 1765)
• 1848 » Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1818)
• 1851 » Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (b. 1775)
• 1878 » Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)
• 1915 » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)

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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on December 19, 1873 was about 8.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.