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• Adriana Cornelia Broos, Hoeven († 1936)
• Anna Catharina SCHOEN, Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Adriaan Mandjes, Wormerveer († 1944)
• Anna van Katwijk, Schiedam († 1929)
• Anna Brita Persdotter, Lilla Blåsjön, Frostviken (Z) († 1874)
• Alida van den Broek, Vlaardingen
• Abram Klijn, Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Aleida Gerharda Wilhelmina Bosman, Meppel
• Ligthart, Warmenhuizen († 1874)
• Amy TITMUS, Longford, Tasmania, Australia

• Beene Jans (Tingen) (74), Wapserveen (Havelte)
• Agatha Jobs Dijkstra (70), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardine Ernestine Harmanna Polman Gruijs (66), Paterswolde (Eelde)
• Adrianus Hoogendijk (0), Krimpen aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Engels Dekker (79), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• VREDEVELDT (0), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Gertrude van der Putten (65), Venray
• Anna Maria Naessens (0), Axel, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Beene Jans Tingen (74), Wapserveen
• Antje Engels DEKKER (79), Egmond aan Zee, Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1861 » Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist († 1942)
• 1862 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1863 » Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1868 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect († 1928)
• 1877 » Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer († 1960)
• 1879 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic († 1963)
• 1879 » Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer († 1933)
• 1883 » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar († 1948)
• 1884 » Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect († 1931)
• 1886 » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 († 1972)

• 1840 » Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
• 1843 » Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet (b. 1770)
• 1853 » Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
• 1854 » Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1859 » David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
• 1861 » Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
• 1863 » Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
• 1866 » Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
• 1879 » William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)

• 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.
• June 29 » Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
• 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.
• October 9 » The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
• November 25 » The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.

The temperature on June 7, 1874 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%.