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• , Huijbergen, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1956)
• Anna Maria de Klijne, Sint Anthonis, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1927)
• Angel Dion Johansen, Lillejord, Beiarn, Nordland, Norge († 1923)
• Adriana Gerarda Nederpelt, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Adriana Hagenaar, Den Bosch, 5407, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaantje van Weelden, Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Adriana van de Nobele, Standaardbuiten, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1915)
• Alphonse Mortier, Klerken
• Adolf (Harmens) de Vos, Oudehorne, gem. Schoterland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1878)
• Anna Slierendrecht, 's Gravenhage († 1938)

• Adrianus Janssen (1), Delfshaven
• Anne Jans Kuiken (0), St. Annaparochie
• Albert Kieskamp (61), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aline van der Valk (19), Delft
• Charles Phillabaum (0), Coshocton Co., OH
• Anna van der Sluis (0), Sommelsdijk
• Agnes Geurtsen (40), Netterden, Nederland
• Aaltje Geenhuizen van (0), Amersfoort
• Christina Cornelia le Cointre (82), 's Heer Arendskerke
• Adolf Joseph Lauvenberg* (0), Wittem, Limburg, Nederland

• 1865 » Julia Marlowe, English-American actress († 1950)
• 1866 » Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad († 1911)
• 1873 » John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic († 1946)
• 1877 » Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player († 1923)
• 1878 » Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer († 1911)
• 1880 » Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer and tennis player († 1948)
• 1887 » Charles I of Austria († 1922)
• 1887 » Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line († 1940)
• 1888 » Monty Woolley, American actor, raconteur, and pundit († 1963)
• 1890 » Stefan Bastyr, Polish soldier and pilot († 1920)

• 1838 » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
• 1850 » José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
• 1861 » Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)
• 1870 » Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818)
• 1875 » Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827)
• 1897 » William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821)
• 1901 » Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842)
• 1903 » Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825)
• 1908 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)
• 1909 » Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883)

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 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
• May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• 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 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.

The temperature on August 17, 1877 was about 20.9 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.