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• Anna Maria Arkes, Slagharen
• Anna Kristine Jensdatter Munson († 1909)
• Annie Eliza Mudd, Mile End Old Town, St Peter, London, United Kingdom († 1960)
• Antonia SMALBROEK, Wijthem, Zwollerkerspel († 1941)
• Annetje Mulder, Zwartebroek († 1950)
• Alice Jeanne Balanck († 1955)
• Adriaan Luijendijk, Nieuwerkerk, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Netherlands
• ?? Wiskerke, Ellewoutsdijk († 1877)
• Anna Margaretha Waller, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1944)
• Aleida Bultman, Hattem († 1920)

• Antje Oost (76)
• Carolus Jacobs (78), Temse
• Adriana TROUWBORST (72), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Nierop (25), Berkhout
• Achiel Camil Vermeesch (0), Stene
• Anna Geertruij Keksel (61), Utrecht
• Antje Oost (79), Zijpe, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Tjibbes van der Veen (74), Menaldum, Friesland, Niederlande
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Rootlieb (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Josephus de Groot (1), Alphen en Riel

• 1859 » Horace Hutchinson, English golfer († 1932)
• 1862 » Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (d.1940)
• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)

• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)

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.
• April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.

The temperature on May 16, 1877 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.