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• Anna Mechtilde Kempkens, Capellen (D)
• Anna Maria Giesendorf, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1932)
• Adriana Theodora Moerlands, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1876)
• Adriaan Willem ten Haaf, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1972)
• Anthonius Franciscus Hogervorst, Delft († 1955)
• aleida TIMMERS, Nijkerk († 1876)
• * Adriaan Willem ten Haaf, Lage-Zwaluwe († 1972)
• Adriaan Willem ten Haaf, Zwaluwe († 1972)
• Aaltje Bosman, Hasselt († 1957)
• Adrianus Keeris, Zeelst, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)

• Broeke, ten (0), de Heurne gem. Aalten Gld. Nederland
• Ann Irene Westbrook [Rb ||| Bu] (14)
• Aleida Timmers (0), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnolda Petronella Rookmaaker (79), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catherina THIJS (50), Alken, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• ten BROEKE (0), De Heurne, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, NL
• Antje Kikkert (72), Oosterbeek (Gelderland)
• Aalbert Elisen (72), Dieren, Nederland
• Petersen, Putten
• Aleida Elisabeth PRUIJN (0), Angeren

• 1862 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)
• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1886 » Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist († 1913)
• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)
• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)

• 1809 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

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.
• January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
• April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
• May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
• 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 April 26, 1876 was about 12.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%.