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• Anna Margaretha Keuter-, Rütenbrock, Duitsland
• Abraham van der Horst, Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Schot, Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Maria Spierings, Schijndel († 1957)
• Adriana van Diest, Lisse († 1877)
• Agatha Cornelia Westerman, Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1925)
• Anetta Lucia Schrok, Toelong Aquang
• Anne Marie Elisabeth Felicite VANHOENSHOVEN, Zepperen, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
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• Agnes E Gonsman, Pennsylvania († 1928)

• * Levenloos kind Baars (0), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Adriana van Diest (0), Lisse
• Aaltie Baris (70), Charlois
• Barbara Sophia Despeghel (41), Klerken, Belgique
• Anje Guikema (1), Feerwerd, Winsum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Ritman (0), Jutphaas
• Cornelia (Lisabetha) Meijboom (Mijboom) (77), Leiden
• Aaltie (alias: Aaltje) Adrianus(d) Baris (70), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Paulina Luberti (1), Amsterdam
• Anna Catharina Kriekaert (81), Graauw en Langendam (82jr)

• 1868 » Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator († 1958)
• 1875 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer († 1942)
• 1876 » Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author († 1945)
• 1876 » William Stanier, English engineer († 1965)
• 1878 » Anna Cervin, Swedish artist († 1972)
• 1879 » Hans Lammers, German judge and politician († 1962)
• 1879 » Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist († 1963)
• 1883 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter († 1971)
• 1884 » Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer († 1968)

• 1831 » Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 » Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1867 » Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (b. 1796)
• 1896 » Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 » Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)

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.
• March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
• April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
• 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.

The temperature on May 27, 1877 was about 19.4 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.