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• Adriaantje Trommel, Stad aan het Haringvliet († 1874)
• Adriana van Rijswijk, Berkel (Wijk A, nummer 108) († 1962)
• Abraham van Roijen, Leiden
• Albert Roosjen, Bronneger, Borger († 1959)
• Aletta Bouman, Well († 1953)
• abraham befort, amsterdam
• Adam Johan Casimir Stanislau Prins Lubomirsky, Rowno (Rowen), Pommeren, Polen († 1940)
• Abraham Befort, Amsterdam, No. Holl., Neth († 1911)
• Adriana Roos, Zegwaart, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1936)
• Anna Hamer, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1948)

• Bernardus Joannes BRUGMAN (2), Amsterdam
• Adriana Elisabeth BELLE (76), Velp (Noord-Brabant), Nederland
• Adriana van Trier (54), Tilburg-Heikant
• Christina Molenaar (73), Stolwijk
• Antje Douma (27), Dantumadeel
• Bastiaan Lookers (0), Den Bommel
• Arij le Pair (71), Delfshaven (71jr)
• Clara de Jong (1), Zwolle
• Antonius Franciscus SEGERS (0), Antwerpen,2000,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Cornelia de Ronde (17), Oosterland, Schouwen-Duiveland,, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1865 » Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator († 1950)
• 1868 » Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom († 1935)
• 1873 » Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician, 140th Prime Minister of Greece († 1955)
• 1877 » Arnaud Massy, French golfer († 1950)
• 1878 » Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist († 1926)
• 1883 » Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland († 1971)
• 1884 » Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor († 1970)
• 1885 » Ernst Busch, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1886 » Marc Bloch, French historian and academic († 1944)
• 1887 » Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet († 1985)

• 1835 » John Marshall, American captain and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
• 1854 » Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (b. 1840)
• 1893 » Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1850)
• 1901 » Chlodwig Carl Viktor, German prince and chancellor (b. 1819)
• 1902 » Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
• 1904 » Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1907 » August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (b. 1826)
• 1916 » Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1918 » Wilhelm von Mirbach, German diplomat (b. 1871)

• 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 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
• April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
• May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on July 6, 1873 was about 18.5 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.