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• Aaltje Terlouw, Gouderak († 1938)
• Alice Young Clawson, SLC, SL, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1956)
• Aartje Adriaantje Barendregt, Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, NL
• America West, Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina († 1957)
• Aaltje Kuik, Tiendeveen, Beilen († 1887)
• Aaltje van den Berg, Urk, Limburg, Nederland († 1957)
• AARTJE ADRIANA BARENDREGT, ROZENBURG († 1903)
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• Agnes Ellen Isbister **, Innerkip, Oxford, Ontario, Canada († 1945)
• Agnes Aitken Kerr, 8, William, Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland († 1952)

• Aaltje Otter (0), Jonen, Giethoorn
• Benschop (0), Waddinxveen
• Annigje Postema (0), Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Leigh Beard (59), Burnet County, Texas
• Adriaan Pietjouw (1), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagtje Cornelisse (84), Zierikzee
• Adelaïde Meersman (50), Hamme
• Antje van den Dool (43), Benthuizen
• Anne Marie LEGRAND (68), SPA, Liège, Belgique
• Anna Theresia Vandepitte (68), Westrozebeke West-Vlaanderen België

• 1867 » Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician († 1943)
• 1869 » José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese colonel and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal († 1952)
• 1874 » Edward Harkness, American philanthropist († 1940)
• 1874 » Jay Hughes, American baseball player and coach († 1924)
• 1875 » D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1877 » Tom Jones, American baseball player and manager († 1923)
• 1879 » Francis Picabia, French painter and poet († 1953)
• 1880 » Bill O'Neill, Canadian-American baseball player († 1920)
• 1880 » Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1956)
• 1881 » Ira Thomas, American baseball player and manager († 1958)

• 1840 » Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1850 » Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 » Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1901 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)

• 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 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
• April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
• May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
• August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
• 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 January 22, 1876 was about -1.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.