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• Anna Driessen, Stein, Nederland († 1953)
• Anna Maria Albertina Gogh, Schiedam
• Adriaantje van der Ree-Doolaard, Zuid-Beijerland
• Anna Maria Albertina van Gogh, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Alberdina Veliks, Breukelen Nijenrode, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agnès Alberta Brinkmann, Nieuberg Dld († 1940)
• Adrianus Hermanus Kagenaar, Utrecht († 1874)
• Andries van der Ree, Numansdorp († 1874)
• Aagje Klaasd Kalis, Den Burg († 1972)
• Adriana Francisca Borrenbergs, Luiksgestel

• Goossen (0), Almelo
• Antonie Boeve (50), Almkerk en Uitwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafje Teekes van Grouw (73), De Koog
• Aalt Nijhof (7), Zeumeren (Barneveld)
• Jacobus van Splunter (72), Sommelsdijk
• Annetje van Putten, Sioux
• Adriana van den Honaard (62), Heerjansdam
• Adriana Enden van den (44), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltjen Elizabeth Brouwer (73), Raalte
• Rijpstra, ferwerderadeel

• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)
• 1868 » Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer († 1944)
• 1876 » Erich Raeder, German admiral († 1960)
• 1878 » Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter († 1958)
• 1879 » Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer († 1984)
• 1880 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper († 1954)
• 1880 » Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist († 1964)
• 1882 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal († 1970)
• 1885 » Con Walsh, Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer († 1961)
• 1885 » Thomas Cronan, American triple jumper († 1962)

• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1942 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• 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).
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 28 » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
• July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
• July 8 » The Mounties begin their March West.
• July 14 » The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
• July 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
• November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

The temperature on April 24, 1874 was about 20.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.