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• Aarnoud Hendrik Baron Van. Hardenbroek, h. Randenbroek
• Adriana Cornelia SMITS, Klundert, Nederland, Noord Brabant († 1956)
• Ale Lucasz Nauta, Kollum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland († 1932)
• Adriana van Alphen, Naaldwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1875)
• Albert Harms Booy, Hoogeveen nederland († 1904)
• Ale Nauta, Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1932)
• Albert Harms Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1904)
• Albert Drees, Brucht († 1941)
• Adolphe Jules BOURLET, Tournai,, Hainaut, Belgique
• Adriana Maria van Alphen, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1875)

• Albert van Meeteren (Meteren) (0), Giesen-Nieuwkerk
• Alida van der Spek (0), Delfshaven
• Albert Libbes Oost- (59), Haulerwijk, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Nieuwenhuisen (47), s-Graveland,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Woltersom, Coevorden
• Schwieters (0), Alexisdorf, Ringe, Emlichheim, D
• Albert van Meteren (0), Giessen-Nieuwkerk
• Aaltien Evenhuis (45), Sleen
• Antje Boonstra (50), Rauwerderhem
• Antonie de Jong (65), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)
• 1877 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1910)
• 1877 » Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1963)
• 1878 » Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general († 1928)
• 1884 » Denis G. Lillie, British biologist, member of the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition († 1963)
• 1884 » Vincent Auriol, French lawyer and politician, 16th President of the French Republic († 1966)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

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.
• February 25 » Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
• 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 17 » Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75)
• August 25 » Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
• December 4 » Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain.

The temperature on August 27, 1875 was about 22.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.