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• Albert Jansen, Harderwijk
• Agnita Helena Vermaas, Fijnaart en Heiningen († 1965)
• Angelique Degreef, Sint Genesius Rode, Belgie
• Ambrosius Slijkerman, Zijpe, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1885)
• Adriaan Antoon van Schilt, Halsteren
• Anna Maria van Ooijen, Horst, Li.NL († 1931)
• Anna Gesina Schulte, Dörpen, Emsland
• Anna Maria Jansen, Maastricht († 1878)
• Albert Jansen, Harderwijk († 1969)
• Andreas Alphonsus Van den Broeck, Borgerhout,, Antwerpen, België († 1892)

• Anje Hardorff (1), Leeuwarden
• Auke Wybes Koop (71)
• Albert Hughart (14), Porter Co., Indiana
• Annigje van Arkel (0), Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Johanna (Cornelis') Elenbaas (48), Sint Maartensdijk Tholen Zeeland NL
• Auke Wiebes Koop (71)
• Auke Wybes Koop (71), Grijpskerk
• Belia Boon (13), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Anna Maria Berthouer (68), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Berthauer (68), Amsterdam

• 1864 » Kamini Roy, British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist, and feminist writer († 1933)
• 1865 » Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1866 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1937)
• 1868 » August Horch, German engineer and businessman, founded Audi († 1951)
• 1868 » Mariano Trías, Filipino general and politician, 1st Vice President of the Philippines († 1914)
• 1872 » Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator († 1958)
• 1874 » Jimmy Burke, American baseball player and manager († 1942)
• 1875 » Aleister Crowley, English magician and author († 1947)
• 1878 » Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower († 1956)
• 1880 » Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author († 1913)

• 1845 » Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, Quaker and philanthropist (b. 1780)
• 1858 » Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)
• 1870 » Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)
• 1875 » Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
• 1896 » Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
• 1898 » Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816)
• 1914 » Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
• 1915 » Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)

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.
• April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• 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 8 » At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
• 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.
• September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
• October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.

The temperature on October 12, 1877 was about 11.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.