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• Adrianus Kijkuit, Streefkerk († 1953)
• Anna Catharina Lamberdina Adrianusd van der Linden, Orten, gem den Bosch († 1954)
• Adriana Burgje van Nugteren, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antheunis But, Schiedam († 1874)
• Adriana Petronella de Volder, Goirle († 1912)
• Alice Geerdes, Titonka, Kossuth County, Iowa, United States († 1954)
• Antje Sonneveld, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1880)
• Akke Oosterhout, Koudum, 8723, Nederland († 1910)
• Agnus Hallam, Balby, Yorkshire, England
• EGGEN, Rheezerveen, gemeente Ambt Hardenberg († 1873)

• Adriana Cornelia Bus (0), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ambrose Spencer Haynes (34), Linn Co. Iowa
• Adriaantje Langeweg (86)
• Adriana Langeweg (86), De Werken, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Antje van Ginkel (29), Driebergen
• Alida Oversloot (0), Monster, 2681, Nederland
• Adrianus Veraart (68), Oudenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje Smit (77), huizen
• Anton Geis (53), Niederlahnstein, Lahnstein, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Anna Christina de Graaff (0), Haarlem

• 1865 » Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1865 » James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian († 1935)
• 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)
• 1877 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1910)
• 1877 » Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1963)
• 1878 » Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general († 1928)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

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 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
• 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.
• May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
• 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 August 27, 1873 was about 23.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.