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• Geeske Woudstra, Lemsterland
• annigje LEEUWESTEIN, sliedrecht
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Verlaan, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1873)
• Rosalia Catharina Zijlmans, Rotterdam († 1874)
• Anna Maria van Zuilen, Leeuwen (gemeente Wamel)
• Aldegonda Helten, Viersen (D) († 1943)
• Geertruida, Ouderijn († 1896)
• Agnes Laas, Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Adrianus Goede, de, Oegstgeest
• Antonie Wallaart, Leiden († 1873)

• van Hal, Rucphen
• Anna Henriëtte Breedveld (0), Nijmegen
• Antje Willemsd HOUWELING (39), Ouder-Amstel,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Lieuwes Bruinsma (74), Appelscha, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Christina Berens (73), Renkum, NL
• Andrzej Żebrak (75), Poręba Wielka, Oświęcim, Oświęcim, Poland
• Cecile Penneman (60), Temse
• Antje Houweling (39), Ouder-Amstel
• Arie Barendregt (1), Rockanje
• Arie Bogerd (1), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 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)

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.
• March 10 » The first Azerbaijani play "The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran" prepared by Akhundov was performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• 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.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
• September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

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%.