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• Alberdina Veldman, Het Schut, Hoogeveen († 1878)
• Aart Mouw, Uddel († 1939)
• Aaltje Wiegers LUCHTENBURG, Hornhuizen (Kloosterburen) Groningen Netherlands († 1886)
• Anna Maria Beatrix Hoogenboom, Brielle
• Adrianus Burger van Nugteren, Schiedam († 1932)
• Adriana van Loenen, Amstelveen († 1946)
• Adrianus Burger van NUGTEREN, Schiedam († 1932)
• Albert Hultink, Hardenberg († 1943)
• Ahazuwerus Herman Averink, Lonneker († 1877)
• Adriana Kloor, Delft († 1941)

• Aalt Selles (85), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Broekmeijer (73), Haarlem
• Anna Maria Greta Gerrelmann (60), Altharen, Duitsland
• Aart Broer (0), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna BROEKMEIJER (74), Haarlem, 4599, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Berg (66), Waddinxveen
• Antje Jans Tjoelker (66), Gerkesklooster, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aalt Mense Selles (Sellis) (84), Kampen, Ov, The Netherlands
• Anna Wiggins (71), Morgan, Alabama, United States
• anna van steijn (72), rotterdam (zuid holland)

• 1871 » Alec Hurley, English music hall singer († 1913)
• 1874 » Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor († 1926)
• 1874 » Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic († 1961)
• 1875 » William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player († 1953)
• 1879 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer († 1953)
• 1882 » George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1882 » Marcel Lalu, French gymnast († 1951)
• 1883 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer († 1945)
• 1884 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist († 1968)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)

• 1838 » Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)
• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Jacoba
15. Antje
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).
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• July 10 » The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
• July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
• July 21 » After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
• November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

The temperature on March 24, 1877 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.