About the day » Saturday February 15, 1873Calender converter

• Adrianus Boeren, Princenhage
• Albertus Alberic Maria Joseph Denys, Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1959)
• Agatha Maria TÖBBEN, Odoorn
• Agatha Maria Tobben, Valtherveen, Odoorn († 1941)
• Adrianus Penning, Ridderkerk († 1890)
• Alice Jeanette Taggart, Richville, Morgan, Utah († 1961)
• Adrianus Petrus Claassens, Tilburg, Nederland († 1918)
• Albert Joseph Carroll, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States († 1928)
• Agnes Elizabeth Driessen, Patrick's Plains, N.S.W. Australia († 1942)
• Alida Sagius, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• Annigje Vlaskamp (81), Klaaswaal, NL
• Alphonsus Boeijkens (0), Hengstdijk
• Adriana Abramsd SPARREBOOM (63), Groote-Lindt
• Anna van Raij (Raaij, Raai) (80), Leeuwen, GLD, Nederland
• Aaltje Boer (51), Hollandseveld (Hoogeveen)
• Anna de Vries (0), Odoorn, Drenthe, Neth
• Aalbert Vastenhout (0), Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham FOYER (75), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• AALBERT SCHUIJL, WAGENINGEN
• Alexandra Tolstoï (72)

• 1856 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist and academic († 1926)
• 1861 » Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher († 1947)
• 1861 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1938)
• 1861 » Martin Burns, American wrestler and coach († 1937)
• 1873 » Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1874 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish captain and explorer († 1922)
• 1883 » Sax Rohmer, English-American author († 1959)
• 1890 » Robert Ley, German politician († 1945)
• 1892 » James Forrestal, American lieutenant and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Defense († 1949)
• 1892 » Roy Rene, Australian comedian († 1954)

• 1842 » Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (b. 1754)
• 1844 » Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
• 1847 » Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (b. 1794)
• 1848 » Hermann von Boyen, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (b. 1771)
• 1849 » Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804)
• 1857 » Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
• 1869 » Ghalib, Indian poet and educator (b. 1796)
• 1885 » Gregor von Helmersen, Estonian-Russian geologist and engineer (b. 1803)
• 1897 » Dimitrie Ghica, Romanian lawyer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1816)
• 1905 » Lew Wallace, American author, general, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1827)

• 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.
• June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
• 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.
• October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
• October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

The temperature on February 15, 1873 was about 7.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.