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• Jongepier, Middelburg
• Anna Maria op den Camp, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 1950)
• Agatha van Dorp, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Lukas Bos, Veendam
• Adrienne Henriette Marie van Grieken, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Goossens, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 1948)
• Helena Segers, Oud en Nieuw Gastel († 1944)
• Adrianus Marinus Luermans, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Cornelis van Zijderveld, Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Goossens, Hoogeloon, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1948)

• Albertje (de Boer) (81), Nieuwe Pekela,, Groningen, Nederland
• Aafke Tjitzes Terpstra (32)
• van Daele, Oosterhout
• Adriana Hogerheijde (85), Colijnsplaat
• Anna Maria Borghs (19), Venray, Li.NL
• Abeltje SLUITER (40), Enkhuizen,Noord Holland,Noord Holland,PAYS BAS
• Aaltjen Jansen (68), Noordink (Bronckhorst)
• Adriana Hogerheije (Hogerheide) (85), Colijnsplaat (NL)
• Catharina Johanna Marchand (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, NL
• Claude Barthélémy MOURGUE (28), Mende, 48095, Lozère, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

• 1863 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer († 1924)
• 1865 » Julia Marlowe, English-American actress († 1950)
• 1866 » Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad († 1911)
• 1873 » John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic († 1946)
• 1877 » Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player († 1923)
• 1878 » Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer († 1911)
• 1880 » Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer and tennis player († 1948)
• 1887 » Charles I of Austria († 1922)
• 1887 » Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line († 1940)
• 1888 » Monty Woolley, American actor, raconteur, and pundit († 1963)

• 1838 » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
• 1850 » José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
• 1861 » Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)
• 1870 » Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818)
• 1875 » Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827)
• 1897 » William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821)
• 1901 » Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842)
• 1903 » Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825)
• 1908 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)
• 1909 » Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883)

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. 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 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
• 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.
• 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 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

The temperature on August 17, 1876 was about 23.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 41%.