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• Aagje Johanna van der Graaf, charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aldert Tuinman, Leeuwarden
• Alida van de Wijngaard, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Alida Kruit, Moordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Adrianus Biskanter, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Adriana Daatje van der Tak, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida van de Wijngaard, Leiden († 1957)
• Nicolaas Corba, Zutphen († 1878)
• Adrianus van Dijk, Driebergen
• Albertina Castro, Campinas, Santa Catarina, Brasil

• Anna Catharina Dobbe (27), Noordwijk 224
• Willem Jan Heesen, Jutphaas 4 jaar
• Aaltje Kwast (0), den Helder, prov. Noord Holland
• Catherine Josephe Schamps, Ronse
• Anne Maria van Grinsven (66), Den Helder
• Aaldrik Huisman (0), Wirdum, Loppersum
• Bruno Duding Dudink (67), Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jansjedr. van Smirren (0), Barsbeek, Ambt Vollenhove
• Aloyse FREYBURGER (45), Traubach-le-Haut (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Alegonda Merkelbach (79), Harlingen, Friesland, The Netherlands

• 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)
• 1877 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1910)
• 1877 » Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1963)
• 1878 » Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general († 1928)
• 1884 » Denis G. Lillie, British biologist, member of the 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition († 1963)
• 1884 » Vincent Auriol, French lawyer and politician, 16th President of the French Republic († 1966)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

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.
• January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
• February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 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.
• June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.

The temperature on August 27, 1877 was about 18.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.