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• Ame Cornelis van Ham, Obergum
• Adriana Boselie, Berlicum († 1927)
• Aartje Louisa Ewaardt, Middelburg († 1874)
• Abraham Thomas TIPPING, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia († 1949)
• Adriana Maria Verpoorten, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Anna Henderika Maria Janssen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1954)
• Alfred Irwin Snyder, Miami, Ohio (VS) († 1952)
• Adriaan Jacob DE VISSER, Klundert, Gemeente Moerdijk, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1954)
• Anna Christina Everts Van Westen, Simonswolde
• alida cornelia Bakker, arnhem

• Catharina Albertine "Emilie" Kümpers (25), Rheine,,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany
• Amandine August Regnart (42), Doornik, 7500, Henegouwen, Belgium
• Anna Petronella Middelraad (0), 's-Gravenhage, NL
• Arie VLIEGENTHART (74), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Vliegenthart (74), Zwijndrecht
• Adriana Klazina van Lith (35), Haaften
• Antje Ewouds Louter (68), Bovenkarspel
• Arie van der Zalm (57), Haarlemmermeer
• Adrianus Hendrik Vermeulen (0), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Haccou (82), Middelburg

• 1858 » Emmeline Pankhurst, English political activist and suffragist († 1928)
• 1864 » Marie Tempest, English actress and singer († 1942)
• 1865 » Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Anglo-Irish businessman and publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press († 1922)
• 1865 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist († 1945)
• 1867 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer († 1936)
• 1871 » Doppo Kunikida, Japanese journalist, author, and poet († 1908)
• 1880 » Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician († 1950)
• 1887 » Wharton Esherick, American sculptor († 1970)
• 1892 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic († 1940)
• 1893 » Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress († 1969)

• 1839 » Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (b. 1802)
• 1844 » Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
• 1851 » Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1787)
• 1857 » Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
• 1858 » Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
• 1883 » General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (b. 1838)
• 1885 » Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop († 1825)
• 1904 » Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)

• 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.
• March 18 » Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
• May 16 » A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
• 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 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
• August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
• 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 July 15, 1874 was about 24.6 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.