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• Albert Vlijm (Flym), Staverden (Ermelo) († 1952)
• Adriaan van Traa, Rotterdam († 1949)
• "Marcel" Henri Marie Nicolas de Campou de Grimaldi-Régusse, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France († 1927)
• Alle Flokstra, Elsloo, Friesland, Nederland († 1927)
• Adrianus Simon Veldhoen, Brielle († 1877)
• Agenis Elizabeth Enthofen, Kalkwijk, Groningen, Nederland († 1936)
• Abel van der Burgh, Zuid-Beijerland († 1964)
• Agnes Barbera Joosten, Gouda, Netherlands († 1877)
• Adriana Van BELLE, Oud-Beijerland († 1908)
• Albert Vliem Vlijm, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland

• Aaltjen Deukers (40), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Koogh (43)
• Alexander Spier (4), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ardina WILLEMS (62), Zeeland, 4423, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allegonda Helena Scholten (6), Arnhem(Gld)
• Adriana Waalboer (83), Rockanje, 3235, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth DOL (46), Hasselt (B)
• Antje de Ruijter (51), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Gerritsdr. Waalboer (84), Rockanje
• Aafke Douwes Lelia (57), Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1865 » Edith Cavell, English nurse, humanitarian, and saint (Anglicanism) († 1915)
• 1867 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria († 1940)
• 1868 » Jesse Burkett, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1953)
• 1875 » Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor († 1964)
• 1875 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and coach († 1945)
• 1875 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian-Swiss poet and author († 1926)
• 1881 » Erwin von Witzleben, Polish-German field marshal († 1944)
• 1882 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright († 1969)
• 1884 » R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian († 1980)

• 1828 » Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1839 » John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)
• 1841 » David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777)
• 1845 » Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786)
• 1850 » William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783)
• 1893 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
• 1902 » Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851)
• 1926 » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868)

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. Wilhelmus

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.
• May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
• 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.
• 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 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
• 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 December 4, 1876 was about 10.6 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.