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• Adrianus Poulus Duijnisveld, Wateringen († 1918)
• Adriana Jacoba Baerveldt, Rotterdam († 1933)
• Aaltje van IJperen, Mijdrecht {UT}
• Anders Daae, Drontheim, Noorwegen
• Adriana Rodenburg, Overschie
• Andries (Harpman) Swaab, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert dekker, Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Adriana Jacoba BAERVELDT, Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands) († 1933)
• Aaltje Friso, Duurswoude († 1904)
• Adrianus Laurens den Outer, Kralingen († 1935)

• Anna Maria Wilhelmina de Ruijter (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Charlotte Elias (34), Cheribon, Java, Indonesië
• Antje Dictus Benedictus (44)
• REUS (0), Purmerland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Bouwman (1), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Hilberink (51), Bergentheim
• Ann Hannah Athey (52), Durham, England
• Anna Catharina Vrancken (76), Wellen, België
• Zwaantjen Sints Klijnsma (70), Kuinre
• Annigjen van der Sleen (66), Hollandscheveld, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1871 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author († 1963)
• 1874 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer and soldier († 1955)
• 1878 » Alfred Laliberté, Canadian sculptor and painter († 1953)
• 1879 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician († 1964)
• 1880 » Albert Richardson, English architect and educator, designed the Manchester Opera House († 1964)
• 1881 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (official birthday), Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey († 1938)
• 1884 » David Munson, American runner († 1953)
• 1886 » Francis Biddle, American lawyer and judge, 58th United States Attorney General († 1968)
• 1887 » Ion Jalea, Romanian soldier and sculptor († 1983)
• 1889 » Tản Đà, Vietnamese poet and author († 1939)

• 1864 » Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1804)
• 1865 » Sengge Rinchen, Mongolian general (b. 1811)
• 1872 » John Baker, English-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1813)
• 1876 » Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
• 1895 » José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1853)
• 1898 » William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1901 » Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African general and politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (b. 1819)
• 1903 » Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (b. 1856)
• 1904 » Auguste Molinier, French librarian and historian (b. 1851)

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.
• 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.
• June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
• 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.
• November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
• December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.

The temperature on May 19, 1877 was about 12.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.