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• Adriaan Stouthamer, Sas van Gent, Zeeland, Nederland († 1954)
• Adriaan Cornelis Jacobus Bijl, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bijl, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Van der Veeke, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1963)
• Albertus Vossen, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• van Ditmars, Middelburg
• Adriana van Nijnatten, Princenhage († 1951)
• Adrienne Henriette Lubeck, Den Haag († 1904)
• Annechein Jakobs Hummel, Terheijl, Roden
• Adriana Pieternella Pekops de Haas, Zierikzee († 1942)

• Abraham Godijn (0), Alkmaar
• (Stillborn) WOLF (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Aarjen Jansz Luikes (52), Broek op Langedijk, Noord Holland
• Adrianus van Ingen (3), Amerongen, UT Netherlands
• Artje Stam (63), Ochten
• Anna Margaretha Jutte (1)
• Anna Margaretha Jutte (1), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Engberts Kuiper (75), Westdongeradeel
• Anna Gertrudis Wennekers (5), Bergen (L), Nederland
• Anna van Beveren (1), Brouwershaven

• 1868 » Ernest Swinton, British Army officer († 1951)
• 1874 » Tan Kah Kee, Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (d.1961)
• 1877 » Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist († 1955)
• 1884 » Claire Waldoff, German singer and actress († 1957)
• 1886 » Eugene Burton Ely, American soldier and pilot († 1911)
• 1887 » Krishna Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar († 1961)
• 1894 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic († 1965)
• 1895 » Edna Purviance, American actress († 1958)
• 1895 » Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete († 1983)
• 1896 » Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein, Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d.1985)

• 1821 » Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
• 1835 » Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
• 1861 » Edward Dickinson Baker, American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
• 1872 » Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
• 1896 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 » Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)

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 8 » At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
• 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.
• October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.

The temperature on October 21, 1877 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.