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• Adriaan Petrus Nicolaass Stokman, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Dekker, Anna Paulowna († 1937)
• Alexander Hendrik Willem van Blijenburgh, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Adolphe Pierre Joseph DUQUÈNE, Soignies (Zinnik), Henegouwen, België
• Alfred Adolphe BEAUREPAIRE, Haubourdin,59320,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE
• Andries Pieter Spek, Leiden († 1916)
• Alida Josina Wensveen, Den Haag († 1920)
• Adrianus Petrus Stokman, Vijfhuizen († 1966)
• Aaltien Huizing, Borger, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Antje Fokkinga, Kooten, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1950)

• Agnes Barrie (74), Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
• Aaltje van Kleef (53), Wormer
• Antonius Vervoort (69), Gierle
• Aart van den Broek, Rotterdam
• Andries van Drongelen (48), Delft
• Adriana van Rooijen (1), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ann GARNER (80), Pirton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Anna Dorethea Harder (86), Niendorf (Poel), Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ksp. Kirchdorf/Insel Poel
• Alida Maria Sennef (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Francina Beekman (75), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1872 » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer († 1917)
• 1878 » Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer († 1945)
• 1879 » Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist († 1958)
• 1883 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village († 1978)
• 1883 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician († 1966)
• 1884 » Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia († 1948)
• 1886 » Santo Trafficante, Sr., Italian-American mobster († 1954)
• 1888 » Jim Thorpe, American decathlete, football player, and coach († 1953)
• 1888 » Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Estonia († 1942)
• 1888 » Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English author and educator († 1947)

• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1904 » Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)
• 1927 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (b. 1870)

• 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.
• April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.

The temperature on May 28, 1877 was about 16.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 22 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.