About the day » Sunday September 15, 1872Calender converter

• Aibe Vink, Zandeweer, Het Hogeland, Groningen, Nederland († 1875)
• Alida Klouwens, Rotterdam († 1929)
• Ada May Vroman, Oasis, Waushara, Wisconsin, United States of America († 1874)
• Adriana van Leeuwen, Nieuwkoop († 1872)
• Adriana Geertruida Koolwijk, Middelburg
• Bruggink, Avereest, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1872)
• Adriana Geertruida Koolwijk, Middelburg († 1964)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van der Tuijn, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1873)
• (Stillborn) KIEWIET, Ooststellingwerf Friesland Netherlands († 1872)
• van Waveren, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1872)

• Anke Faber (1)
• (Stillborn) SIKKEMA (0), Franekeradeel Friesland Netherlands
• Aafke Willems van der Valk (72), Bozum/Baarderadeel
• Alida Hendrika Van Ameijden (0), Leerdam
• Anna Catharina Creemers (0), Venray, Nederland
• Catharina Antonia Maria Bertens (1), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafke Willems van der Valk (72), Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Berendina Wagtmeister (56), Gendringen (Oude Ijsselstreek), Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina Breedveld (3), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus Vanderghote (39)

• 1861 » M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar, and Bharat Ratna Laureate, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom († 1962)
• 1863 » Horatio Parker, American organist, composer, and educator († 1919)
• 1864 » Prince Sigismund of Prussia († 1866)
• 1867 » Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general († 1920)
• 1876 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1962)
• 1876 » Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist († 1938)
• 1877 » Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian politician († 1938)
• 1877 » Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright († 1962)
• 1879 » Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia († 1939)
• 1881 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti († 1947)

• 1830 » François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759)
• 1830 » William Huskisson, English financier and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (b. 1770)
• 1841 » Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
• 1842 » Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (b. 1792)
• 1842 » Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
• 1852 » Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, German-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1859 » Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
• 1864 » John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (b. 1827)
• 1883 » Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic (b. 1801)
• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• March 11 » Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
• March 16 » The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
• May 10 » Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• December 9 » In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.
• December 21 » Challenger expedition: HMSChallenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.

The temperature on September 15, 1872 was about 18.2 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.