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• Amélie Adeline Stéphanie ROUSSEAU, Bois-de-Céné, 85710, France († 1945)
• Annigje de Boer, Slagharen († 1876)
• Bastiaan van der Padt, Barendrecht († 1958)
• Antonius Cleeren, Putte, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Arthur William Cross NCRO01.ART01RD, Pickwell, Rutland, England († 1958)
• Antje de Boer, Heemskerk († 1955)
• Antoine Francois Pijpops, Herk-de-Stadt ( Frankrijk )
• Aldegonda Schattevo, Geldern, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Aagje Lolkes Klijnstra, Tjerkgaast, Friesland, Nederland († 1937)
• Antje de Boer, Heemskerk († 1955)

• Adelia Eliza Todd (41), Apple River, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States
• Baron. Willem Jan Philip Sloet van Toutenburg (77), 's Gravenhage
• Adriaan van der Linden (56), Apeldoorn
• Anna Hendrika Meijer (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Bos (55), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Margaretha GERHARDS (60), Pongs, Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Anna Margaretha Freudenborg (65), Washington County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Josephus Lansbergen (0), Overschie
• Anna Schuman (51), Amsterdam
• Aagje van Ree (0), Katendrecht

• 1855 » Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator († 1936)
• 1872 » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist († 1950)
• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)
• 1886 » Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author († 1968)
• 1888 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1971)
• 1890 » Alfred Jodl, German general († 1946)
• 1891 » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic († 1934)

• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)

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.
• March 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
• April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
• May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
• September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.

The temperature on May 10, 1873 was about 16.0 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.