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• Aagje Johanna Maria Elisabeth Buitelaar, 's Gravenzande († 1912)
• Bernardus Petrus Cornelis Faber, NIjmegen, Gelderland, NL
• Carlos Ernesto Júlio Lohmann, Arnheim, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1945)
• Adriana Elizabeth Weldrager, Rotterdam († 1956)
• Andreas Ludovicus Vermeerbergen, Balen 2490, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Albert Kreuze, Hollandscheveld, Drenthe, Nederland († 1888)
• Adriana Wagemakers, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1921)
• Bart Pellikaan, Nieuwland
• Álvaro Ribeiro de Oliveira, São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brasil
• Arie Degraff, New York, United States

• Anna Maria Nabben (61), St. Anthonis
• Bienheuré Pierre PAVY (74)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van der Kruk (3), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• arie van der PLAS (1), numansdorp
• Agenieta Bouman (74), Dordrecht
• Antje Wytzes Hiemstra (1), Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Gordijn (76), Nijmegen
• Abraham Jacobs Wijdom (0), Rotterdam
• Aukje de Boer (10), Opsterland
• Bernardus Joannes Ferdinand De Neuve (23), Amsterdam

• 1866 » Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter († 1906)
• 1869 » Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor († 1933)
• 1870 » R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada († 1947)
• 1871 » William Henry Davies, Welsh poet and writer (d.1940)
• 1874 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor († 1928)
• 1875 » Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon and academic († 1951)
• 1876 » Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic († 1957)
• 1878 » George M. Cohan, American songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer († 1942)
• 1879 » Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher († 1950)
• 1880 » Carl Schuricht, Polish-German conductor († 1967)

• 1863 » George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
• 1863 » Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
• 1881 » Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1811)
• 1887 » Clay Allison, American rancher (b. 1841)
• 1888 » Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1822)
• 1904 » Édouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
• 1904 » Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and playwright (b. 1860)
• 1908 » Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
• 1916 » Hetty Green, American businesswoman and financier (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1844)

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.
• February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
• 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 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
• April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

The temperature on July 3, 1873 was about 23.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.