About the day » Saturday April 8, 1876Calender converter

• Adrianus Fortgens, Haarlem, Noord-Holland / Lange Wijngaardstraat († 1955)
• Adriana Dionisia Coolen, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1877)
• Alice Marie Eugenie Hustinx, Lanaeken, België
• HAARMEIJER († 1876)
• Adrianus Verbiest, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1879)
• Albert Heerschop, Oldemarkt († 1961)
• Albert Heerschop *, Oldemarkt
• Alida Arends Naber, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1928)
• Albert Walcott Sabin, MA
• Adolf Willem Beerends, Amsterdam († 1956)

• Aalbert van Hell (56), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Everardus Zijlmans (71), Waspik
• Annechien van Leens (54), Zuidwending, Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arij Cornelis Langendoen (1), Oostvoorne
• Aalbert v Hell (56), Nijkerk
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van der Hoeven (2), Monster
• Amelia Hays (61), Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Voogd (13), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmi Joannis Ceelen (69), Asten,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Antje Butzelaar (61), Naarden

• 1867 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter and educator († 1908)
• 1869 » Harvey Cushing, American surgeon and academic († 1939)
• 1871 » Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator († 1925)
• 1874 » Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer († 1929)
• 1874 » Stanisław Taczak, Polish general († 1960)
• 1875 » Albert I of Belgium († 1934)
• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia († 1936)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)
• 1885 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator († 1951)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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.
• March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
• May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
• June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.

The temperature on April 8, 1876 was about 17.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 39%.