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• Abraham Kalkman, Capelle aan de IJssel († 1965)
• * Henderikus (Hendrik) van der Huls, Leens († 1948)
• * Jannigje van Tintelen, Eck en Wiel, Gem. Maurik, Gelderland, NL († 1877)
• Adrianus VAN DEN BERG, Katwijk aan Zee († 1941)
• Alphons van Regenmortel, Koewacht († 1951)
• Anna Kroon, Houtrakpolder
• Aaltje Geertruida Kluin, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1934)
• Adrianus Martinsz van den Berg, Katwijk († 1941)
• Adrianus van den Berg, Katwijk († 1941)
• Aatami Torvasti, Humaljoki, Karelië, Finland

• Anna Catrina SNELTJES (72), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Put (Putte) (77), Roosendaal
• Adriana Jacoba Chiele de Jager (84), Scheveningen, Nederland
• Aleida Baars (73), Kamerik, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana de Fouw (12), Kats
• Aleida Radstake (71), Heelweg
• Aaltje Baars (72), Kamerik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Johannes Bol (3), Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• Anne Berends DIJKHUIZEN (65), Oldehove, Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana van Put (77), Roosendaal

• 1866 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China († 1925)
• 1872 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer († 1947)
• 1881 » Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1881 » Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect († 1948)
• 1886 » Ben Travers, English author and playwright († 1980)
• 1886 » Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer († 1975)
• 1889 » DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest († 1981)
• 1890 » Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater († 1974)
• 1892 » Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor and actor († 1958)
• 1894 » Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist († 1976)

• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
• 1916 » Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
• 1933 » F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
• 1933 » John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
• 1939 » Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (b. 1890)
• 1946 » Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (b. 1875)

• 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.
• May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
• May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
• August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
• November 23 » Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

The temperature on November 12, 1876 was about -1.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.