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• adonis adolphe VERTENEUIL, La Bouverie (Belgium) Hainaut
• ? ? († 1943)
• Allegonda Hendrina Vergeldt, Sevenum († 1949)
• , Scheveningen, den Haag, Nederland († 1960)
• Aldegonda Huberdina Vergeldt, Meerlo, Nederland († 1949)
• Albert Wolter Reinders Strijker, Het Schut (Hoogeveen)
• (m) Schreiber, Puderbach, Kreis Wittgenstein
• ALOIS VERDICKT, SINT-PAUWELS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1953)
• Boom, Hekendorp, 3467, Nederland († 1873)
• Aldegondis Huberdina Vergeldt, Sevenum († 1949)

• Albertus Johannes SMITH (81), Beerta
• Boom (0), Hekendorp, 3467, Nederland
• Anna van Santen, Beusichem (GL)
• Allert Everts (83), Tiendeveen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Broeders (53), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Stokman (84), Aagtekerke, Nederland
• Anna (ook Antje) van der Meijden (76), Rhenen
• Anna van der Meijde (76), Rhenen
• Adriana Stokman (84), Aagtekerke
• Adam Campbell (71), Walker County, Alabama, Verenigde Staten

• 1865 » Charles Sands, American golfer and tennis player († 1945)
• 1868 » Jaan Tõnisson, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941?)
• 1869 » Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1931)
• 1869 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright († 1935)
• 1872 » Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist († 1961)
• 1874 » Franz Schmidt, Austrian cellist, pianist, and composer († 1939)
• 1876 » Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer († 1944)
• 1878 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper († 1925)
• 1883 » Edgard Varèse, French-American composer († 1965)
• 1883 » Marcus Hurley, American cyclist († 1941)

• 1828 » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
• 1853 » Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)

• 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 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.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
• October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.

The temperature on December 22, 1873 was about 8.3 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.