About the day » Saturday February 19, 1876Calender converter

• Aaltje van Harten, Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ada Brown, Cathcart, South Africa († 1878)
• Adriana Maria ROSKAM, Noordwijk († 1877)
• Adriana Pieternla Lijster de, Naaldwijk
• Adriana Pieternella de Lijster, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Roskam, Noordwijk 270 († 1877)
• Adrianus Sol, Bladel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Aaltje van Ham, Rasquert († 1954)
• Adrianus Quartel, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Aletta Josina Cornelia QUINTUS, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1949)

• Annegien Oevermans (60), noordbarge
• Anna Catharina Bartholomeeusen (80), HalLe
• Aaltje HILDERING (0), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Brams (78), Rillaar
• Annigje Jans Hoefman (26), Leeuwte, Ambt Vollenhove
• Anna Katharina Margaretha DECKMANN (64), Bleichenbach, Hessen, D
• Aartjen Zeldenrijk (76), Breukelen-st Pieters
• Aartje Seldenrijk (76), Breukelen-St. Pieter
• Anna Agatha Grimberg (2), Eenrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Aartjen Seldenrijk (76), Breukelen-St. Pieters,, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1859 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1927)
• 1865 » Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer († 1952)
• 1869 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian-Russian poet and author († 1923)
• 1872 » Johan Pitka, Estonian admiral († 1944)
• 1876 » Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1957)
• 1877 » Gabriele Münter, German painter († 1962)
• 1878 » Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress († 1961)
• 1880 » Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico († 1928)
• 1886 » José Abad Santos, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines († 1942)
• 1888 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian lawyer and poet († 1928)

• 1837 » Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (b. 1813)
• 1837 » Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1756)
• 1887 » Multatuli, Dutch-German author and civil servant (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
• 1916 » Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1928 » George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)
• 1945 » John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)

• 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.
• March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
• August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• 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.
• October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
• December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

The temperature on February 19, 1876 was about 8.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.