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• Alexandre Silveira de Miranda, Guaratuba, Paraná, Brasil
• Albert Jan Grooters, Lemele
• Adèle Pauline PERRIOT, Montbéliard, 25200, Franche-Comté, FRANCE († 1892)
• Aaltje Clement, Wissenkerke († 1877)
• Meindersma († 1877)
• Albertus ten Kate, Lonneker {OV} († 1877)
• Adrianus Martinus Janssen, Batenburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1877)
• Alfons Verniers, Sinaai, België († 1950)
• * Wilhelmina Romein, Bergschenhoek († 1973)
• Alice, Clémence, Rosalie LOWIJCK, Brugge, 99 († 1912)

• Koole (0), Wissenkerke
• Adriana Zanten (80), Waardenburg
• Arie Rijsdijk (16), Heerjansdam
• Abraham van der Meij (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aart van der Linden (77), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Rosalia Elisabeth Minnekens (63), Lier, België
• Auke Sytses Leenstra (74), IJlst
• aagje SMITS (45), oud-beijerland
• Bastiaan Pieter Rietveld (38), Nieuwer-Amstel (N.-H.), Neth
• Aart Willemsz van der Linden (77), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht

• 1874 » Bill Klem, American baseball player and umpire († 1951)
• 1876 » Zitkala-Sa, American author and activist († 1938)
• 1879 » Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist and academic († 1947)
• 1880 » Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete († 1930)
• 1881 » Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian journalist and politician († 1937)
• 1881 » Joseph B. Ely, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of Massachusetts († 1956)
• 1882 » Eric Gill, English sculptor and illustrator († 1940)
• 1883 » Marguerite Clark, American actress († 1940)
• 1886 » Hugo Ball, German author and poet († 1927)
• 1887 » Savielly Tartakower, Polish journalist, author, and chess player († 1956)

• 1875 » Charles Lyell, Scottish-English geologist and lawyer (b. 1797)
• 1875 » Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1796)
• 1888 » Anna Kingsford, English physician and activist (b. 1846)
• 1890 » Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (b. 1834)
• 1890 » John Jacob Astor III, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
• 1897 » Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
• 1898 » Heungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b. 1820)
• 1903 » Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1904 » Leslie Stephen, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1832)
• 1913 » Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)

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 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
• March 2 » Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
• April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
• November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
• December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.

The temperature on February 22, 1877 was about 0.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.