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• Almanda "Alma" Marie Tillett, Buck Grove, Crawford, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1902)
• Aaltje JANSEN, Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Adriana Huijbregts, Alphen en Riel († 1876)
• Adrianus Leonardus de Vetten, Schipluiden, Zuid Holland
• Mastenbroek, Spijkenisse, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1876)
• Allain Marie LE JEUNE, Plougonven, 29, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 1933)
• Adriaan de Hek, Hardinxveld († 1876)
• Adriaan Christiaan Kurvink, Poortvliet, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Ouwerling, Schiebroek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1934)
• Alijda van Wageningen, Amersfoort

• Anna Maria Francisca Lievendag (74), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Kruijk (69), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Dijkstra (43), Leeuwarden
• Aldegonda Timmermans (32), Weesp
• (Stillborn) GORTMAKER (0), Paterswolde (Eelde) Drenthe Netherlands
• Albert Fokkert (9), Junne
• Antonia Kruijk (69), Naaldwijk
• Agathe Waroquier (0), Boussu, Hainaut, Belgium
• Arnoldus van Dolder (70), Ede,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Dyck (51), Antwerpen

• 1868 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player († 1949)
• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)
• 1890 » Marjorie Main, American actress († 1975)
• 1896 » Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer († 1983)

• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)
• 1929 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1930 » Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (b. 1850)

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. Klaas

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.
• February 2 » The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
• 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.
• May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
• May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
• May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

The temperature on February 24, 1876 was about 4.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.