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• Antje Veldhuis, Hoorn († 1954)
• Anna Elisabeth de Geer, Zeist,Gemeente Zeist,Utrecht,Netherlands († 1947)
• Anna van Spronsen, Loosduinen († 1876)
• Adriana ROBBE, Willemstad († 1875)
• Adrianus Arnoldus Donders, Tilburg NB Netherlands († 1951)
• Adriana Robbe, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1875)
• Adriana BASTIAANSEN, Ginneken-Bavel († 1950)
• Aleida Annevelink, Winterswijk († 1947)
• ALeida Roelvink, Enschede
• Albertina Matthisa Wijt, Salatiga, Semarang († 1924)

• Alfred Heinrich von Gleichen (67), Rudolstadt, Germany
• Antonia van Gelder (53), Amsterdam
• Barteld Jacobs Zoer (70), Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland
• Sierk Hylkes Plantinga (51), Bolsward
• Adriaantje Leeuwenburgh (0), Heinenoord
• Albertjen Spanjer (71), Wagenborgen
• Anna Adriana Cornelia Halteren, van (75), Veenklooster
• Bartha Brizee (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Van Klaveren (0), Woubrugge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Adriana Cornelia Van Halteren (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NL

• 1867 » Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright († 1931)
• 1868 » Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator († 1958)
• 1875 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer († 1942)
• 1876 » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author († 1945)
• 1876 » William Stanier, English engineer († 1965)
• 1878 » Anna Cervin, Swedish artist († 1972)
• 1879 » Hans Lammers, German judge and politician († 1962)
• 1879 » Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter († 1971)

• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 » Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)

• 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.
• August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
• October 9 » The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
• 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.
• December 29 » The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.

The temperature on May 27, 1874 was about 21.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 36%.