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• Adrianus-Gerardus ZAAT, Voorburg(Nl) († 1945)
• Antoinette Maria Kramers, Schiedam († 1973)
• Andries Anne Wisman, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 1964)
• Anna Maria Geertruidis Huijg, Haarlem († 1963)
• Abelius Eenkema, Huizinge, Middelstum († 1931)
• Ada Florence WARNER, Nursted, North Aylesford, Kent, England († 1968)
• Antje Sierdsma, Gaast († 1974)
• Alberta Gardina HUUSKEN, Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1919)
• Alberdina Kranenberg, delden († 1880)
• Antoinette Johanna Wilhelmina Maria Küppers, Roermond († 1923)

• Catharina Sons (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Chiswell White (81), Montgomery City, Montgomery, Maryland, United States
• Anna Maria Coerman, Leiden
• Abraham ABOUCAYA (36), Constantine, Algérie
• Cornelia van Rooijen (74)
• Cornelia van HAL (63), Roosendaal-Nispen,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Anthonij Roebers (49), Diepenveen (Rande), Nederland
• Brand van Sprakelaar (63), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana de Bree (1), Biggekerke, Walcheren, NL
• Cornelia Peters (72), Nistelrode

• 1860 » Charles Studd, England cricketer and missionary († 1931)
• 1863 » Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus († 1926)
• 1866 » Harry Burleigh, American singer-songwriter († 1949)
• 1876 » Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism († 1935)
• 1884 » Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand soldier, lawyer, and judge († 1953)
• 1884 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet and author († 1958)
• 1885 » George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1891 » Charles H. Wesley, American historian and author († 1987)
• 1891 » Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator († 1969)
• 1894 » Warren William, American actor († 1948)

• 1844 » Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1792)
• 1859 » John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1881 » Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
• 1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
• 1888 » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (b. 1875)
• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1924 » Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist and philologist (b. 1879)

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 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• 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.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
• November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

The temperature on December 2, 1877 was about 1.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.