About the day » Monday May 19, 1873Calender converter

• Andries Willems Tel, Roden († 1954)
• Abraham Joel de Casseres († 1931)
• Andries Tel, Roden († 1954)
• Sijke de Jonge, Hoogeveen Drenthe († 1874)
• Adriana van Lier, Monster, Nederland († 1951)
• Anna Maria Stegemeijer, Velsen, Gemeente Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1873)
• alexander van den BERG, oud-beijerland († 1873)
• Antje Wichers Veenstra, Drachten
• Adriana Johanna Plomp, Vrijenban († 1873)
• Adrianus de Bont, Drunen, Heusden,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1873)

• Augusta von Lenthe (83)
• Alida Antonia van Schaik (0), Ouder-Amstel
• Aagje van Rutten (42), Zegwaart
• Adriana Perdijk (51), Delfshaven
• Augusta de Lenthe (83), Gorizia (Goritz), Frioul-Vénétie-Julienne, Italie
• Adolphe Ernest François MERCIER (68), Mons, 53053, Hainaut, Belgique
• Alje Mulder (0), Kalkwijk, Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia van Woensel (43), s Heer Arendskerke
• Albert Smeenge (79), Ees (Borger) 55
• Amerensjen Bastiani (1), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1861 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress († 1931)
• 1871 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author († 1963)
• 1874 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer and soldier († 1955)
• 1878 » Alfred Laliberté, Canadian sculptor and painter († 1953)
• 1879 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician († 1964)
• 1880 » Albert Richardson, English architect and educator, designed the Manchester Opera House († 1964)
• 1881 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (official birthday), Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey († 1938)
• 1884 » David Munson, American runner († 1953)
• 1886 » Francis Biddle, American lawyer and judge, 58th United States Attorney General († 1968)
• 1887 » Ion Jalea, Romanian soldier and sculptor († 1983)

• 1864 » Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1804)
• 1865 » Sengge Rinchen, Mongolian general (b. 1811)
• 1872 » John Baker, English-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1813)
• 1876 » Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
• 1895 » José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1853)
• 1898 » William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1901 » Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (b. 1819)
• 1903 » Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (b. 1856)
• 1904 » Auguste Molinier, French librarian and historian (b. 1851)

• 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.
• January 17 » A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
• June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
• June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• 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 May 19, 1873 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.