About the day » Thursday December 4, 1873Calender converter

• Pieterse, Ter Aar
• Anna Jilts Veenstra, Surhuizum († 1957)
• Albert Charles Gardner, Michigan († 1948)
• Anna Meijer, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• "Elsée" Stéphanie Charlotte Marie Ghislaine de Kerchove de Denterghem, Gand, Belgique († 1939)
• Anna Maria van Lahnen, Oberhausen, Duitsland († 1938)
• Anna Maria te Riele, Diepenheim († 1949)
• Aarnout Aalewijnse, Middelburg († 1948)
• Albertus Martinus Manz, Soerabaya, Java, Indonesia († 1935)
• Anna Isabella Govaerts, Waalwijk († 1935)

• August Christian Hermann Looper (20)
• Adriaan van Delft (57), Goes
• Arij Huijsman (59), spijkenisse (zuid holland)
• Andreas Zijlmans (76), Waalwijk
• Andreas Zijlmans (76), Waalwijk, Nederland
• Antonia de Jong (76)
• Anthonij Spek (27), Hellevoetsluis
• Abraham Elmer Brinckerhoff (2)
• Aaltje Gort (1), Schottershuizen, Zuidwolde, de Wolden, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Antonia de Jong (76), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1865 » Edith Cavell, English nurse, humanitarian, and saint (Anglicanism) († 1915)
• 1867 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria († 1940)
• 1868 » Jesse Burkett, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1953)
• 1875 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor († 1964)
• 1875 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and coach († 1945)
• 1875 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian-Swiss poet and author († 1926)
• 1881 » Erwin von Witzleben, Polish-German field marshal († 1944)
• 1882 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright († 1969)
• 1884 » R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian († 1980)

• 1828 » Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)
• 1893 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
• 1902 » Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)
• 1926 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868)

• 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.
• February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
• August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
• September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
• October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
• 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 December 4, 1873 was about 6.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.