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• Aartje van den Essenburg, Soest
• Alida Maria Du Four, Ninove, België († 1877)
• Alida Harmina Johanna Moll, Deventer († 1978)
• , Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Alida Doesburg, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1875)
• Adrianus van HAL, Roosendaal en Nispen (N.Br. Nl) († 1969)
• Alkina Veltman, Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands († 1929)
• Aike Hensums, Weerdingerveen (Emmen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Andrew Jackson Whitt, Elkton, Giles, Tennessee, United States († 1933)
• Anna Lydia Hierath, Hohenjamny, Austria († 1954)

• Adriaan Lanser (25), Sliedrecht
• Alvin Lindley (79), Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Gieling (37), Medemblik
• Adriaan Lanser (25), Sliedrecht
• Aaltje Boetting (56), Zweeloo,Drenthe,Niederlande,Benneveld
• Agnes McMiking (85), Old Scotch Cemetery, Victoria Township, Knox, Illinois, United States
• Anna Jacoba Boshoven (74), Dordrecht, Nederland
• Aleida Adriana van Zoele (22), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Aloysius Luijben (18), Hedikhuizen
• "Geert Wiebes" van de Roeden (76), Tjalleberd

• 1869 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan († 1932)
• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1872 » Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general († 1922)
• 1872 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1934)
• 1879 » Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist († 1952)
• 1879 » Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer († 1929)
• 1880 » Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter († 1938)
• 1880 » Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator († 1959)

• 1840 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
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 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 3 » Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• March 15 » Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
• May 1 » Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
• June 19 » The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• August 22 » The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• December 4 » Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain.

The temperature on May 6, 1875 was about 22.5 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 43%.