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• Adriana Scholten († 1944)
• Aaltje Dijkstra, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham van Benten, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Boone, 's-Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Luijten, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1877)
• Adriana Kooij, Haarlemmermeer
• Adrianus de Hart, Herpt en Bern, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1951)
• Adriana Hendrika Mulekhuijse, Rotterdam († 1940)
• Agatha Maria Enthoven, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1877)
• Adriana van den Berg, Voorhout († 1945)

• Antoon Peters (55), Wehl, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Maria OTTENHOFF (0), Bergen op Zoom
• Albert Meijns (0), Wormerveer, Gemeente Zaanstad
• Arie van Herk (28), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Nederland
• Albert Zwartkruis (89), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• "Pietronella" Petronella Petronella (53), Ammerzoden, NL
• Aebe Hylkes Broersma (67), Opende
• Albertus Zwartkruis (89), Bemmel
• Antoon Peters (54), Wehl, Nederland
• Albertus Albertus Zwartkruis (89), Bemmel, Lingewaard, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1870 » Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator († 1952)
• 1871 » James E. Ferguson, American banker and politician, 26th Governor of Texas († 1944)
• 1878 » Frank Jarvis, American sprinter and lawyer († 1933)
• 1879 » Alma Mahler, Austrian-American composer and author († 1964)
• 1879 » Taishō, emperor of Japan († 1926)
• 1880 » Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands († 1962)
• 1884 » George Sarton, Belgian-American historian of science († 1956)
• 1885 » DuBose Heyward, American author and playwright († 1940)
• 1890 » August Alle, Estonian poet and author († 1952)
• 1893 » Lily Laskine, French harp player († 1988)

• 1818 » Robert Calder, Scottish admiral (b. 1745)
• 1867 » Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (b. 1821)
• 1869 » Mary Ward, Irish astronomer and entomologist (b. 1827)
• 1884 » Robert Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1814)
• 1908 » Leslie Green, English architect (b. 1875)
• 1910 » Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer, conductor, and music critic (b. 1875)
• 1912 » Jean, duc Decazes, French sailor (b. 1864)
• 1920 » Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1832)
• 1924 » Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian soldier (b. 1881)
• 1927 » Andranik, Armenian general (b. 1865)

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.
• 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 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
• 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 August 31, 1877 was about 18.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.