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• Abeltje Jans Smit, Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Netherlands(Leggelerveld) († 1898)
• Adriana Mout, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina de Meijere, Zeist, Nederland († 1957)
• Alphonsus Johannes Maria Vermeulen, Breda
• Adeline Marie Huyghe, Staden West-Vlaanderen België
• Alphonse Ludovicus Marius DECLOEDT, Lissewege
• Amalie Louise Arendmeier, Exter, Verenigde Staten
• Alberta Willemina Roks, Wijk Bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1935)
• Albertje Kunst, Groningen († 1955)
• van Asselt, Ermelo († 1876)

• Adriana Cornelia Smit (9), 's-Heerenhoek, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Alida de Smit (32), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)
• Anna Hubertina Thoma (0), Meerssen, Limburg, Nederland
• Abraham Nierop (84), Scheveningen, Nederland
• Adèle Marie Baudry (0), Mourcourt, 7543, Hainaut, België
• Abraham Claasz Nierop (84), Scheveningen
• Jan Helsloot (0), Bodegraven
• Adriaan Goorts (49), Deurne
• Albertus Nijkamp (0), Deventer
• Adriana van Gils (81), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1858 » Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director († 1941)
• 1865 » Wilfred Grenfell, English physician and missionary († 1940)
• 1866 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright († 1949)
• 1873 » William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor († 1912)
• 1878 » Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer († 1929)
• 1882 » Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress († 1967)
• 1882 » José Vasconcelos, Mexican philosopher, lawyer, and politician, Mexican Secretary of Public Education († 1959)
• 1883 » Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish rebel leader († 1916)
• 1884 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia († 1942)
• 1887 » William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter († 1966)

• 1857 » André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

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. Jacoba
16. Petronella

• 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 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
• May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• November 25 » American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
• December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

The temperature on February 28, 1876 was about 10.7 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.