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• Adrianus Johannes van Schelven, Zierikzee
• Penaat, Deventer
• Adriaan van Nordennen, Dussen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1955)
• Adriana Hendrika Beijer, Bennekom, Gelderland, Nederland († 1948)
• Adrianus Eijsermans, Goirle († 1946)
• Adriaantje Janna Roukema, Bruinisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1941)
• Abraham Mieog, Leiden († 1945)
• Adrianus Eijsermans, Goirle († 1946)
• Aaltje Atres, Putten († 1968)
• Aaltje Atres, Putten

• Adriaantje Stuifbergen (78), Bergen
• Albertje de Vries (0), Vreeland,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Rompelman (0), Doesburg
• Albertus Reuling (5), Nieuw Wehl
• Adrianus Leendertsz Bakker (68), Numansdorp, zh.nld
• Anna Maria Kok (39), Ruurlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van Doorn (0), IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltina Scholte (0), Veenoord (Sleen)
• Anna Maria Klaassen (33), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus van den Ekart (41), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1869 » Aleš Hrdlička, Czech-American anthropologist and scholar († 1943)
• 1869 » Sir Edwin Lutyens, British architect († 1944)
• 1870 » Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain († 1904)
• 1871 » Tom Hayward, English cricketer († 1939)
• 1872 » Hal Colebatch, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Western Australia († 1953)
• 1873 » Tullio Levi-Civita, Jewish-Italian mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1874 » Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States († 1944)
• 1876 » Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player († 1908)
• 1884 » Ed Archibald, Canadian pole vaulter († 1965)
• 1885 » Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian author and poet († 1936)

• 1848 » John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (b. 1763)
• 1855 » Henri Druey, Swiss politician, 2nd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1799)
• 1873 » Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian priest and physicist (b. 1797)
• 1877 » Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802)
• 1888 » Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (b. 1813)
• 1891 » Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
• 1891 » John Plankinton, American businessman and industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (b. 1820)
• 1900 » Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (b. 1826)
• 1905 » William Plankinton, American businessman, industrialist and banker (b. 1843)
• 1906 » Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)

• 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.
• February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
• July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
• July 10 » The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
• 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.

The temperature on March 29, 1877 was about 9.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.