About the day » Sunday May 25, 1873Calender converter

• adriana johanna de wit, tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Afina Maria Douwes Dekker, Temangung, Indonesie († 1929)
• (stillborn son) KAPTEIJN, Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.), Neth († 1873)
• Aloïs van der MIJNSBRUGGE, Onkerzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1947)
• Alphonsus Meeus, Meensel Kiezegem
• (Stillborn) IKE, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1873)
• aleidus cornelis de VRIES BROEKMAN, vlissingen († 1955)
• Alida Plug, Noordwijk († 1950)
• Aleidius Cornelis de Vries-Broekman, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1955)
• Anna Geertruida Zegers Veeckens, Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Atje Brands Wijbenga (36), Dantumadeel
• Antje van der Sar (2), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie de Vet (36), Veur
• Benjamin Jacobus Disselkoen (16), de Lier
• (Stillborn) IKE (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• van Haastert (0), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Barbara Hershberger (64), Kalona, Washington County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Langerak (60), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arend Boer (0), Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands(Hollandscheveld)
• Arend Boer (0), Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen

• 1865 » John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1865 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1867 » Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter († 1950)
• 1869 » Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator († 1936)
• 1869 » Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic († 1918)
• 1878 » Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer († 1949)
• 1879 » Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster († 1964)
• 1879 » William Stickney, American golfer († 1944)
• 1880 » Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist and academic († 1967)
• 1882 » Marie Doro, American actress († 1956)

• 1849 » Benjamin D'Urban, English general and politician, Governor of British Guiana (b. 1777)
• 1895 » Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
• 1912 » Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
• 1917 » Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
• 1919 » Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1889)
• 1926 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1927 » Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1876)

• 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 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• 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.
• October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
• October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

The temperature on May 25, 1873 was about 15.1 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.