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• annigje LEEUWESTEIN, sliedrecht
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Verlaan, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1873)
• Adrianus Jacobus van den Ende, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1874)
• Adrianus Jacobus van den Ende, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 1874)
• Anna Adriana Flantua, Utrecht († 1935)
• Adrianus Jacobus van der Ende, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1874)
• * Annigje Leeuwestein, Sliedrecht († 1955)
• Albert Kroeze, Nieuw Amsterdam, Drenthe, NederlandNld († 1875)
• Adrianus Waterschoot, Hoogeloon († 1934)
• Aaltje Kemp, Willeskop († 1937)

• Catharina Margaretha Koch (0)
• Arie Barendregt (1), Rockanje
• Antje Vos (1), Uffelte
• Bastiaan Rochusz SCHELLING (68), Zuid-Beijerland
• Antje Lieuwes Lieuwma (74), Appelscha, gem. Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Landman (1), Kerkwerve
• Aaltje Keijzer (1), Wieringen
• Cecile Penneman (60), Temse
• Anna Maria Van Den Bogaert (75)
• Aarnout cornelis Nagtegaal (3), Veere, Zeeland, NL

• 1861 » Iván Persa, Slovenian priest and author († 1935)
• 1862 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1869 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager († 1928)
• 1875 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler († 1940)
• 1875 » William Donne, English cricketer and captain († 1942)
• 1884 » J. C. Squire, English poet, author, and historian († 1958)
• 1891 » Jack Buchanan, Scottish entertainer († 1957)
• 1891 » Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet († 1976)
• 1891 » Tristão de Bragança Cunha, Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from Goa († 1958)
• 1896 » Johnny Golden, American golfer († 1936)

• 1827 » Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and educator (b. 1776)
• 1845 » Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1763)
• 1865 » A. P. Hill, American general (b. 1825)
• 1872 » Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (b. 1791)
• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)

• 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.
• March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• 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.
• September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
• September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

The temperature on April 2, 1873 was about 16.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.