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• Anna van Sintmaartensdijk, Zuidland († 1927)
• Adam Weedage, Dinteloord, Nederland († 1968)
• Albertje Dotinga, Rauwerd († 1923)
• Andries Mastebroek, Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Gerardina Bordewijk, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Albert Guillaume, Paris († 1942)
• Albert Jans Lunenborg, Hollandsche Veldt (Hoogeveen) († 1940)
• Anna Josephina van Dülmen, Spelle Duitsland
• Adèle Florence Victorine WALRY, Bas-Oha Liège Belgique
• Andries Mastenbroek, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Brechje (Brechtje) Visser (36), Sint-Pancras
• Oostmeijer (32)
• Aaltien Koenraads Goorholt (84), Steenwijk
• Benjamin Bennett (92), Dekalb, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Ambrosius Joosten (68), Deurne en Liessel
• ? van der Bijl (0), Tietjerksteradeel
• Antje Stadens (8), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Visscher (0), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Frederica van der Veen (70), Daarle
• Ambrosius Joosten (1804-1873) (68), Deurne en Liessel

• 1855 » Frank Harris, Irish author and journalist († 1931)
• 1859 » George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel († 1896)
• 1860 » Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany († 1954)
• 1869 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1878 » Julius Nieuwland, Belgian priest, chemist and academic († 1936)
• 1882 » John Barrymore, American actor († 1942)
• 1884 » Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet and playwright († 1974)
• 1884 » Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director († 1947)
• 1890 » Dick Richards Welsh international footballer, forward
• 1890 » Nina Hamnett, Welsh-English painter and author († 1956)

• 1831 » Henry Maudslay, English engineer (b. 1771)
• 1831 » Vicente Guerrero, Mexican general and politician, 2nd President of Mexico (b. 1782)
• 1870 » St. John Richardson Liddell, American general (b. 1815)
• 1881 » Fernando Wood, American merchant and politician, 73rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Lydia Hamilton Smith, African-American businesswoman (b. 1813)
• 1885 » Jules Vallès, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 » William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (b. 1820)
• 1894 » Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
• 1901 » Edward Stafford, Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1819)
• 1910 » Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849)

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.
• January 17 » A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
• February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
• March 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
• July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

The temperature on February 14, 1873 was about 3.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.