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• Adriaantje van Diggelen, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1945)
• Anna Antonia van Woerkens, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1937)
• Adriana Schrevelius, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1873)
• Anna van der Linden, Leiden
• Achillus David Eeckhout, Zwevezele,8750,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1927)
• Antje Dijkstra, Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland († 1873)
• Anna Cornelia van den Brekel, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1948)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Jollie, Delft († 1943)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Jollie, Delft († 1943)
• Aaltje Rinsma, Tietjerksteradeel († 1973)

• Pot, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonie Cornelis van Overbeek (0), Poortugaal,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Jans Dekker, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Clara Norah ALLEYN (0), Québec (Saint Patrick), Québec
• Bernhard Heinrich Hake (3), Altenberge, Haren (Ems)
• Cornelis Vinck (95), Bodegraven
• Abelina van Dijken (45), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Christianus Bernardus Johannes Hendrik IMMINK (0), Utrecht
• Adriana Elisabeth van Rijkhuizen (63), Nieuwe Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Cugnier (10), Penha, Santa Catarina, Brasil

• 1861 » Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree († 1923)
• 1864 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1937)
• 1867 » Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist († 1932)
• 1871 » Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (d.1958)
• 1871 » Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer († 1946)
• 1881 » Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player († 1921)
• 1884 » Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal († 1979)
• 1886 » Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general († 1945)
• 1887 » Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway († 1945)
• 1889 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan († 1977)

• 1837 » Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (b. 1777)
• 1863 » Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 1 » Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
• September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

The temperature on July 18, 1873 was about 23.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%.