About the day » Saturday December 29, 1877Calender converter

• Anje Bos, Holwierde († 1929)
• Adriana Cornelia de Kouter, Kruiningen († 1963)
• Adam Levi Warner, York Co., PA († 1967)
• Andrew Jackson Tompkins, Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1951)
• Alida Maria van Zuijlen, Hoenkoop, Utrecht, Nederland († 1917)
• ?? Alders, Schoten († 1877)
• Arie Blok, Lange Ruige Weide († 1878)
• Anje Bos, Holwierde, Bierum († 1929)
• Anna Catharina Hubertina Wilms, Swalmen († 1959)
• Aartje Verhulst, Kapelle (Kapelle) (Zeeland) († 1960)

• Abram (Abraham) Boerkoel (84), Scherpenzeel
• Anna aldegondis CUYPERS (57), Meeuwen, 3670, Oudsbergen, Limburg, België
• Aldert Bergwerff (88)
• Aafje Zijp (57), Sint Maarten, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Rootlieb (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Pieter Hindrikus Mensinga (14), Midwolda
• Aafje Zijp, Castricum
• ?? Alders (0), Schoten
• Adriana Clazina Zeeman (67), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Ludwig Salomon" Friedrich von Wattenwyl (78)

• 1859 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico († 1920)
• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)
• 1879 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot († 1936)
• 1881 » Jess Willard, American boxer († 1968)
• 1885 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general († 1921)
• 1886 » Norman Hallows, English runner and captain († 1968)
• 1895 » Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author († 1939)
• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)

• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)

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 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
• 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.
• 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 December 29, 1877 was about 2.4 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.