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• Andries GOUD, Klaaswaal
• Anna Maria Jagers, Deurne en Liessel († 1948)
• Adriana Peeters, Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL († 1866)
• Andries Goud, Klaaswaal
• Andries Boulboulle, Maastricht († 1866)
• Adriana van de Kreeke, Wolphaartsdijk († 1949)
• Petronella Maria Cornel, Raamsdonkveer († 1868)
• Alice Emily Longden, Charlottetown,, Dominica († 1940)
• Alice, Emily Longden, Charlottetouwn, Dominica, West Indie († 1944)
• Sedano y Leguizano, Cuernavaca, Baja California, Mexiko († 1917)

• Berend Gritter (1), Schut (Hoogeveen)
• Arie RIDDERHOF (32), Dordrecht
• Arie van Weelden (7), Herwijnen, Nederland
• Antonia de Ridder (Den) (29), Klundert, Nederland
• Arle van Weelden (7)
• Adrianus BOGERT (43), Papendrecht
• Anna Cornelia (Marijnisse) MARIJNISSEN (71), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anton Harms Kuper (7), Holthuserheide, Ostfriesland, Hannover
• Barend van der Pol (60), wijk en aalburg
• Arie van Weelden (7), (GL) Herwijnen

• 1848 » Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor († 1905)
• 1850 » Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer († 1896)
• 1852 » J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic († 1919)
• 1852 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1911)
• 1856 » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist († 1927)
• 1860 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator († 1900)
• 1870 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia († 1891)
• 1871 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1883 » Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist († 1931)
• 1884 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)

• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)

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

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

• 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• March 27 » President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
• May 1 » The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• May 2 » Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
• May 16 » The United States Congress establishes the nickel.
• June 3 » The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario back into the United States.
• June 7 » One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.

The temperature on August 30, 1866 was about 16.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 27 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.