About the day » Tuesday April 8, 1873Calender converter

• Krullaars, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Westen, Odoorn
• Alida Zuurbier, Oterleek, Schermer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1910)
• Anna Christina Kooijman, oude tonge (goeree overflakkee)
• Alida Anthonia van Oostveen, Breukelen St Pieters, Utrecht, Nederland († 1874)
• Adrianus van Geel, Klundert
• Alice Cary Lay, Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1974)
• Alida Zuurbier-, Oterleek, Nederland († 1910)
• Andries de Visser, Nieuw-en Sint Joosland, Nederland († 1955)
• Aagie van Leening, Mijnsheerenland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1873)

• Arie den Blanken, Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelis Snoeck (65), Cuijk, N.B
• Arend Viscaal (56), Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
• LAMPE (0), Leeuwarden
• Aalbertjen Vos (89), Brummen
• anna elisabeth Vroemen (Vroomen) (4), schimmert
• Antonetta Leppens (50), Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren
• Aalze Lammerts Lambarts (25), Drogeham, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Brouwers (52), Ginneken en Bavel
• Quirijnen (0), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1864 » Carlos Deltour, French rower and rugby player († 1920)
• 1867 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter and educator († 1908)
• 1869 » Harvey Cushing, American surgeon and academic († 1939)
• 1871 » Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator († 1925)
• 1874 » Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer († 1929)
• 1874 » Stanisław Taczak, Polish general († 1960)
• 1875 » Albert I of Belgium († 1934)
• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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 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.
• April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
• August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.

The temperature on April 8, 1873 was about 6.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.