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• Alphonsus Leo Dujardin, Roeselare († 1970)
• Alma Lydia Morse, Trelleborg, Sweden
• Alida Susanna Hendrica KREUGER, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• "Marguerite" Marie Hélène Magnin († 1966)
• Aaltje Verbeek, Ophemert
• Anna Rodermans, Everdingen († 1915)
• Angenietje van Driel, IJsselmonde († 1905)
• Alida Cornelia van den Bosch, Veur (nu Ldm) († 1954)
• Abraham Cornelis Maas, Leiden, ZH, Nederland († 1943)
• Abraham Cornelis Maas, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Berent Beekman Mensinga (69), Opsterland
• Cornelis Albertus van Bragt (1), Haarlem, Gemeente Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Dommelen (39), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christianus Renardus Niekus- (72), Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Fredericus Piolon (41), Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Anastasie Vanden Dorpe (59), Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Andreas Huybrechts (0), Oorderen
• Charles WOLF (0), Illfurth, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Anneke Mulders (91), De werken en Sleeuwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anneke Mulders (91), De Werken en Sleeuwijk

• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)
• 1871 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia († 1939)
• 1876 » Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author and playwright († 1958)
• 1877 » Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1960)
• 1880 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1880 » Radclyffe Hall, English poet, author, and activist († 1943)
• 1881 » Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer († 1959)
• 1883 » Marion Lorne, American actress († 1968)
• 1883 » Martha Hedman, Swedish-American actress and playwright († 1974)
• 1885 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic († 1959)

• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (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.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
• December 10 » Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

The temperature on August 12, 1877 was about 15.3 °C. There was 12 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.