About the day » Saturday April 8, 1876Calender converter

• Akke (Davids) Reinhart, Garmerwolde († 1963)
• Aalbertus van den Boogaard, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alcide Joseph Guislain DUCHATELLE, Trescault,62147,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE († 1887)
• Adrianus van Hedel, Berlicum († 1956)
• Albert Heerschop *, Oldemarkt
• Alida van de Kuijen, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1936)
• Adrianus Fortgens, Haarlem, Noord-Holland / Lange Wijngaardstraat († 1955)
• Aaltje Zeilmaker, Frederiksoord († 1941)
• Adrianus Verbiest, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1879)
• Aaltje Jalving, Peelo (Assen) († 1954)

• Anna Jane Todd (48), Green Sea, Horry, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Amelia Hays (61), Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van der Hoeven (2), Monster
• * Gerrit Wagensveld (1), De Bilt, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana van Witsenburg (3), Vlaardingen
• Antonie Ceelen (69), Asten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Lodewijk Dubru (19), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Penterman (74), Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andrea JANS (61), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmi Joannis Ceelen (69), Asten,Noord-Brabant,Nederland

• 1867 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter and educator († 1908)
• 1869 » Harvey Cushing, American surgeon and academic († 1939)
• 1871 » Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator († 1925)
• 1874 » Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer († 1929)
• 1874 » Stanisław Taczak, Polish general († 1960)
• 1875 » Albert I of Belgium († 1934)
• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Antje
15. Petronella
16. Jacoba

• 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.
• April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
• April 22 » The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of Major League Baseball.
• May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
• June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
• November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
• November 25 » American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.

The temperature on April 8, 1876 was about 17.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 39%.