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• Anna Maria Husmann, Tinnen, Haren (Ems)
• Anna Cornelia Kuijpers, Loenhout, Antwerpen († 1909)
• Anna Christina Bartels, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1940)
• Aleida Hoffman, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1903)
• Abraham Jan Verhage, Middelburg, Zeeland, NL († 1950)
• Anna Maria Josefina Florentina BEX, Borgloon (B) († 1909)
• Alfred Joseph GERARD, Louvain-la-Neuve, Province du Brabant Wallon, Walloon Region, Belgie
• Adriana van Gelder, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna E Hoag, Perry City, Hector, Schuyler, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1876)
• Alida Hendrika Kranenburg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1909)

• Abraham Isaacs Suwijn (72), Aardenburg
• Adriana HAZENBERG (59), Boxtel
• (Joanna) Francisca VAN CAPPELLEN (36), Humbeek,1851,Brabant Flamand,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Abraham Suweijn (70), Aardenburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert Keuken (0), Dedemsvaart
• Adolf Karel Lodewijk Frederik Prins van Hohenlohe-Öhringen (76), Koszecin (Koschentin), Silezië, Polen
• Aaltje van der Haar (59), Staphorst
• Abraham Suwijn (70), Aardenburg
• Adolf Karel van Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (76)
• Schuijf (0), Rotterdam

• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)
• 1868 » Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer († 1944)
• 1876 » Erich Raeder, German admiral († 1960)
• 1878 » Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter († 1958)
• 1879 » Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer († 1984)
• 1880 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper († 1954)
• 1880 » Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist († 1964)
• 1882 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal († 1970)
• 1885 » Con Walsh, Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer († 1961)
• 1885 » Thomas Cronan, American triple jumper († 1962)

• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1942 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)

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.
• February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
• August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

The temperature on April 24, 1873 was about 1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.