About the day » Thursday December 2, 1875Calender converter

• Adrianus Meesters, Halsteren († 1876)
• Alexandrina Amelia Cavalheiro, Rio Negro, Paraná, Brasil
• Aaltje Giezen, Musselkanaal (gem. Stadskanaal) († 1876)
• Andreas Marinus Josiassen, Hulst, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Abraham Pieter Adamse, Veere († 1876)
• Aaltje Giezen, Musselkanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1876)
• Alfons Machiels, Nieuwerkerken, België
• Adrianus Meesters, Halsteren († 1876)
• Abraham Pieter Adamse, Veere († 1876)
• Anna Rosann McGowan, Fannin County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1917)

• Abraham Durks Nicolai (82), Oudega, Friesland, Netherlands
• Arendje Taal (64), Scheveningen
• Houkes (0), Empel en Meerwijk
• Anneke Meurs (62), Ede
• Antje Alberts Hofman (83)
• Anna Therese Lievens (75), Zerkegem
• Adrien Joseph VANDERCAMMEN (66), Saintes, Waals-Brabant, België
• Aaltje Visser (74), Oudkarspel
• Antje Karst Scheeringa (28), Niekerk
• Alle Wietzes de Haan (0), Surhuizum, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland

• 1859 » Georges Seurat, French painter († 1891)
• 1860 » Charles Studd, England cricketer and missionary († 1931)
• 1863 » Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus († 1926)
• 1866 » Harry Burleigh, American singer-songwriter († 1949)
• 1876 » Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism († 1935)
• 1884 » Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand soldier, lawyer, and judge († 1953)
• 1884 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet and author († 1958)
• 1885 » George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1891 » Charles H. Wesley, American historian and author († 1987)
• 1891 » Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator († 1969)

• 1844 » Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1792)
• 1859 » John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1881 » Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
• 1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
• 1888 » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (b. 1875)
• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1924 » Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist and philologist (b. 1879)

• 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.
• April 4 » Vltava, composed by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and also known by its German name Die Moldau, premiered in Prague.
• August 22 » The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• September 27 » The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
• October 22 » First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• December 4 » Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain.

The temperature on December 2, 1875 was about -5.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.