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• 'Elodie' Elodia Maria APS, Kallo, 46010, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Adolf Menzo, Avereest († 1920)
• Antonius Aloisius van Raaij, Didam († 1940)
• Alida Johanna Pieterse, Dodewaard, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)
• Alida Cornelia van Aalst, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Albertus Bijsterveld, Olst († 1943)
• Adriana Johanna Alewijnse, Middelburg († 1945)
• Albertus Bijsterveld, Olst († 1943)
• Alphonsus Torfs, Bevel
• Antje Antoinetta Catharina Latour, Ommen, Twenterand, Overijssel, Nederland

• Antje Maria de Vogel (0), Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinetta Wilhelmina Gesena Meijer (58), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Aaltje Groot (0), Heerhugowaard, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Kips (54), Den Haag
• Adrianus de Rijk (68), Steenbergen
• Andries DERMER (2), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• * Hendrina Adriana de Gruijl (44)
• Albertje de Roo (4), Veeningen, Zuidwolde
• Anna Maria COX (52), Neerpelt, 3910, Limburg, België
• * Antonetta Jonkers (79), Rosmalen

• 1860 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist († 1940)
• 1867 » Andy Bowen, American boxer († 1894)
• 1867 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1870 » Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein († 1948)
• 1871 » Emmett Dalton, American criminal († 1937)
• 1873 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine († 1945)
• 1874 » François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty, Inc. († 1934)
• 1874 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic († 1954)
• 1877 » Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author († 1925)
• 1879 » Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded Qantas († 1950)

• 1839 » Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
• 1856 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
• 1856 » Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
• 1910 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 1916 » Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
• 1916 » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
• 1916 » Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)

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.
• April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
• April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
• August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
• November 22 » The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.

The temperature on May 3, 1873 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.