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• Adrianus Rudolphus Wittop Koning, Rotterdam († 1961)
• Aaltje Bos, Zandeweer, Kantens, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Alida Susanna Zirkzee, Leiden († 1961)
• Tijben, Emmen Dr. NL († 1877)
• Anke Witteveen, snikzwaag
• adriana in't VELD, oud-beijerland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Peters, Cuijk († 1944)
• Albert Abraham Abel Kennedy, Lots 1 and 2, Fenelon Township, Ontario, Canada († 1915)
• Albertje Veldkamp (Veltkamp), Heerde, Nederland († 1877)
• Alida de Jong, Katwijk († 1915)

• Alida Turk (2), Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Kaaij (27), Oudorp {NH}
• Anna Nijding (39), Kralingen Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Alida Helena Van Klaveren (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (2) Pieter Klaasz (Petrus) Wiering (67), Oude Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Adrianus van den Heuvel (1), Ravenstein
• Angelica (Angela) CASTELEYN (59), Halluin (FRA)
• Bernardus Klompemaker (15), Lonneker
• Anna Maria Goormans (67), Nijlen
• Adrianus van den Heuvel, Ravenstein

• 1866 » Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal († 1931)
• 1869 » Levon Shant, Armenian author, poet, and playwright († 1951)
• 1878 » Erich Mühsam, German author, poet, and playwright († 1934)
• 1881 » Karl Staaf, Swedish pole vaulter and hammer thrower († 1953)
• 1884 » J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer († 1927)
• 1886 » Athenagoras I of Constantinople († 1972)
• 1886 » Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Indian ruler († 1967)
• 1886 » Walter Dandy, American physician and neurosurgeon († 1946)
• 1888 » Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic († 1967)
• 1888 » Hans Richter, Swiss painter, illustrator, and director († 1976)

• 1833 » Adamantios Korais, Greek philosopher and scholar (b. 1748)
• 1838 » José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian poet, academic, and politician (b. 1763)
• 1860 » James Kirke Paulding, American author and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1778)
• 1862 » Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (b. 1803)
• 1883 » Benjamin Wright Raymond, American merchant and politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (b. 1801)
• 1886 » William Edward Forster, English businessman, philanthropist, and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1818)
• 1899 » Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
• 1906 » Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician, 6th County Governor of Møre og Romsdal (b. 1849)
• 1913 » Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore (b. 1835)
• 1923 » Kabalega, King of Bunyoro (b.1853)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
• November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
• November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

The temperature on April 6, 1877 was about 13.1 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.