About the day » Thursday December 21, 1876Calender converter

• Abraham Mug, Rotterdam († 1935)
• Antje Dol, Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• (2) Jakob Kamminga, Oude Pekela (Gn) Nederland († 1962)
• Albert Henry Grafton, Madison, Mississippi († 1958)
• Aagtje Anje Huisman, Termunterzijl, Termunten, Groningen, Nederland († 1961)
• Aafke Hof, Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands († 1913)
• anna christina beijers, helden († 1914)
• ? ? († 1876)
• Antje Dol, Wervershoof, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Antje van Melsen, Haarlem

• Arie Arieszn. Bijl (83), Dubbeldam
• Aaltje Freerks BAAS (75), Avereest
• Anthonie Bartholomeus SIMONIS (62), Den Haag, ZH, Nederland
• Aaltje Hartenhof, Kolham, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida HOFFMANN (83), Leeuwarden,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Bekman (0), Nieuw Amsterdam Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina (Trijntje) Vorre (63), Haastrecht
• Anna Geertruida Hoffman- (83), Leeuwarden, Nederland
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van de Bruijn (0), Ter Aar (Aardam)
• Catharina Huibregtse (64), Middelburg

• 1866 » Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and political activist († 1953)
• 1868 » George W. Fuller, American chemist and engineer († 1934)
• 1872 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1872 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian priest and composer († 1956)
• 1872 » Trevor Kincaid, Canadian-American zoologist and academic († 1970)
• 1876 » Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales († 1975)
• 1877 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar († 1954)
• 1878 » Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish-Irish mathematician and philosopher († 1956)
• 1884 » María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist († 1951)
• 1885 » Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1960)

• 1824 » James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

• 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 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
• March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
• August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
• September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.

The temperature on December 21, 1876 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.