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• Aartje Cornelia van Deelen, Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Akke Pieters de Vries, Rottevalle, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1962)
• Adriana Catharina Vermeer, Hof van Delft († 1966)
• Aaltje Brontsema, Oosternieland († 1949)
• Abraham van Dommele, Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alida Jantina Beentje, Stadskanaal († 1948)
• Albertus Veenbergen, olst († 1931)
• Adriaan Flikweert († 1961)
• * Maria Adriana Wagemakers, Loon op Zand († 1910)
• Agatha van der Veer, Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)

• Adrianus van den Tillart (31), Veghel
• Adrianus Gerardus Voskuijl (1), Delft
• Adriaan Arnold Bloem (21)
• Aaltje Peeks (32), Eursing, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana van der Strigt (41), Gouda
• BAKKER (0), Eursing (Beilen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana van Beurden (60), Helvoirt
• Arnoldus Antonius Orie (39), Zwolle
• Adriana van der Strigt (41), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Monica Fierens (39), Grobbendonk

• 1864 » Prince Sigismund of Prussia († 1866)
• 1867 » Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general († 1920)
• 1876 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1962)
• 1876 » Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist († 1938)
• 1877 » Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian politician († 1938)
• 1877 » Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright († 1962)
• 1879 » Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia († 1939)
• 1881 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti († 1947)
• 1883 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer († 1950)
• 1886 » Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist († 1971)

• 1830 » François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759)
• 1841 » Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
• 1842 » Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (b. 1792)
• 1842 » Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• 1852 » Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)

• 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.
• January 5 » The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
• March 3 » Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• April 10 » India: Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati to propagate his goal of social reform.
• May 17 » Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75)
• August 22 » The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• September 3 » The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.

The temperature on September 15, 1875 was about 19.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%.