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• Adrianus Johannis van Rooijen, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Anton Weijers, Kessel, Duitsland
• Anna Kiers, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1954)
• Anna Maria Lathouwers, Waalre
• Abel de Vries, Kloosterburen († 1944)
• Adriaan Corbijn, Koudekerke
• Alice Camilla Sidonia Van den Meersschaut, Semmerzake († 1879)
• Anna Catharina Stadtsholte, Peheim
• Adrianus Johannis Van Rooijen, Schipluiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Jacob Roelof Niesing, Haarlem

• Albert Helmus (1), Niezijl, Groningen, NL
• Anthonius Lambertus Baert (0), Hulst
• Antje van Tinteren (50), Amsterdam
• Antonius Lambertus Baert (9), Hulst, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Anna Dirks Bakker (1), Sneek
• Angelina Vijvekens (74), Heythuysen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arnoldus van Rosmalen (55), Tiel, Nederland
• Arie de Ruiter (1), Scheveningen
• Adrianus Zwijgers (1), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Barbant, Nederland
• Aaltje Middelhof (0), Scheerwolde (Steenwijkerwold)

• 1859 » Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1944)
• 1861 » Charles Martin Loeffler, German-American violinist and composer († 1935)
• 1862 » Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer († 1950)
• 1866 » Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and critic († 1951)
• 1878 » Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author († 1940)
• 1882 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States († 1945)
• 1889 » Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright († 1937)
• 1899 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress († 1969)
• 1901 » Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver († 1959)

• 1836 » Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to have designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
• 1838 » Osceola, American tribal leader (b. 1804)
• 1858 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 » Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 » William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 » Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)
• 1889 » Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (b. 1858)
• 1926 » Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 » La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866)

• 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.
• March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
• May 8 » At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
• November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
• December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
• December 10 » Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

The temperature on January 30, 1877 was about 7.1 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 55 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.