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• Aaltje Lanting, Roden († 1904)
• Albert Blom, Oudeschild (Texel, NH) († 1975)
• Albertus Ullersma, Utrecht († 1952)
• Aaltje Vrijdag, Rijssen († 1927)
• Albertus Fokkens, Westernieland (gem. De Marne) († 1937)
• adriaan HARTKOREN, papendrecht
• Aaffien Stubbe, Nieuw Scheemda, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands († 1878)
• Adrianus van Gorkom, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Adriana van den Heuvel, St. Michielsgestel († 1887)
• Akke Sennip, Harlingen (Harns) († 1878)

• Anna Katherina Krahling (19), Nassau, Germany
• Aart Van Honk (74), Sleeuwijk, Brabant (North), Netherlands
• Andries Andreas Mariek (74), Rotterdam
• Agnes Mary Ethel Powys (20)
• Anna Maria Christina Schaffhausen (0), Roermond
• Alney McClain Haws (71), Wayne, Illinois, United States
• Christiaan Kempes (10), Lemmer (LEM), Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Jans Harsevoort (Harsevort (78), Leeuwte 43 Vollenhove Ambt
• Casper Luchtenburg (72), Winsum, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Deij (72), Groede

• 1865 » John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School († 1967)
• 1867 » Otto Hermann Kahn, German banker and philanthropist († 1934)
• 1875 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever († 1997)
• 1878 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader († 1973)
• 1881 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer († 1945)
• 1885 » Sacha Guitry, Russian-French actor, director, and playwright († 1957)
• 1887 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of War († 1945)
• 1888 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright († 1965)
• 1892 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1949)
• 1893 » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress († 1979)

• 1821 » Georg Friedrich von Martens, German jurist and diplomat (b. 1756)
• 1824 » Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (b. 1781)
• 1829 » Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen and freedom fighter (b. 1778)
• 1846 » Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800)
• 1862 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)
• 1888 » William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804)
• 1891 » James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
• 1919 » Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)

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.
• January 8 » Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
• January 20 » The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
• February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• 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 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

The temperature on February 21, 1877 was about 3.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.