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• Antonia Elisabetha Niesink (Niessink), Hengelo (Bronckhorst) († 1939)
• Ank Jans (Anke) Lam, Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1893)
• Anna Margaretha Waller, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1944)
• Amanda Elizabeth Leffert, Marion Co, Missouri († 1938)
• Anna Maria Catharina Koevoets, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant (Nederland) († 1929)
• Annetje Mulder, Barneveld Zwartebroek († 1950)
• Albert Smid, Veendam († 1877)
• Aaltje Christina van Dort, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1907)
• Alice Jeanne Balanck († 1955)
• Aleida Bultman, Hattem († 1920)

• Adrianus Franciscus Verbist (32), Capellen
• Abraham van der Meer (0), Zonnemaire
• Arie Zondervan (73), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Caroline Diemont (12), Huissen, Gld, NL
• ?? Wiskerke (0), Ellewoutsdijk
• Bindert Haijes Vellinga (49), Beetgum
• Adriana Trouwborst (72), Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel
• Aaltje Tjibbes van der Veen (74), Menaldum, Friesland, Niederlande
• Berendina Veldhuis (7), Lemele (gem. Ommen-Ambt)
• Anna Geertruij Keksel (61), Utrecht

• 1859 » Horace Hutchinson, English golfer († 1932)
• 1862 » Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (d.1940)
• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)

• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)

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. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
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.
• January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
• May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
• October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
• November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

The temperature on May 16, 1877 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.