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• Albert de Bey, Gasselternijveenschemond, Gasselte († 1937)
• Antoon Johan Kool, Utrecht († 1922)
• antoine GREGOIRE, Dour (Belgium)
• Antonia Julia (Lathouwers) Soeteweij, Lillo, prov. Antwerpen
• Antonia Julia Soetewey, Antwerpen (Lillo), Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1929)
• Agnes Emorett Sessions, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1913)
• Anna Catharina Schornagel, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Drunen, Baardwijk, NB Netherlands († 1939)
• Anje Stol, Meedhuizen, Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland († 1923)
• Aloys Selschotter, Woumen († 1880)

• Albert Schepers (70), Lutte (Losser)
• Albertus Scheper, De Lutte
• Anna Amelia VAN UGTELEN (39), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Apolonia Grootscholte (0), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Oomen (0), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolus Ludovicus Josephus Holemans (0), Werchter
• Barbera VERDUGT (2), Nieuwland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Agatha│Aagje Dofferhoff (29), Rijnsburg
• Antonius Hendrikus Wolsing (17), Gooi (Hengelo)
• Arnolda Pijnenburg (0), Vught

• 1850 » Edward Bellamy, American author, socialist, and utopian visionary († 1898)
• 1852 » Élémir Bourges, French author († 1925)
• 1854 » Maurice Lecoq, French target shooter († 1925)
• 1856 » William Massey, Irish-New Zealand farmer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1925)
• 1857 » Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon († 1929)
• 1859 » A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar († 1936)
• 1859 » Adolf Hurwitz, Jewish German-Swiss mathematician and academic († 1919)
• 1860 » André Prévost, French tennis player († 1919)
• 1866 » Fred Karno, English producer and manager († 1941)
• 1868 » King Fuad I of Egypt († 1936)

• 1814 » Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician and politician (b. 1738)
• 1827 » Ludwig van Beethoven, German pianist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1858 » John Addison Thomas, American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1811)
• 1862 » Uriah P. Levy, American commander (b. 1792)
• 1881 » Roman Sanguszko, Polish general and activist (b. 1800)
• 1885 » Anson Stager, American general and businessman, co-founded Western Union (b. 1825)
• 1888 » Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
• 1892 » Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (b. 1819)
• 1902 » Cecil Rhodes, English-South African colonialist, businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (b. 1853)
• 1905 » Maurice Barrymore, American actor (b. 1849)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 18 » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• March 3 » Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
• April 27 » American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
• September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
• November 9 » The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.
• December 10 » Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.

The temperature on March 26, 1861 was about 14.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.