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• Aloysius Cornelis Antonius Kemper, den Haag († 1871)
• Adriana Elisabeth Voermans, Ginneken en Bavel († 1943)
• Adam ADAMS, Kropswolde, GR. NL († 1938)
• Anna Dorst, Strijen, ZH, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Hardeman, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend () Van Gelder, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1869)
• Antje Sikkes Lafleur, Wonseradeel, Fr, Nederland († 1875)
• Antje Reitsma, Achtkarspelen, Provincie Friesland († 1937)
• Anne Boomsma, Nijega, gemeente Hemelumer Olderferd
• Albert Johannes Eshuis, Hoogeveen († 1904)

• Anna Wilhelmina Sonneveld (39), Hof van Delft
• Aafje Noot (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje Jansdr Noot (0), Den Helder
• Annegien Gerbens Kies (79), Kleinemeren, Hoogezand-Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Rodenburg (0), Kethel en Spaland
• Arij Rodenburg (0), Kethel, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antje Smit (94), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Adelheit Stüven (68), Settrup
• Anna Magdalena Sophia Zembsch (0), Abcoude-Baambrugge 28
• Bastiaan Simonsz. van der Meide(Meijde) (54), Middelharnis (ZH Nederland)

• 1862 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist († 1900)
• 1863 » Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France († 1933)
• 1866 » John Beresford, Irish polo player († 1944)
• 1866 » Traian Demetrescu, Romanian poet and author († 1896)
• 1867 » Antti Aarne, Finnish author and academic († 1925)
• 1867 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland († 1935)
• 1868 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1869 » Ellis Parker Butler, American author and poet († 1937)
• 1870 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator († 1949)
• 1872 » Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player († 1906)

• 1819 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
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 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.
• January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
• March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
• June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
• June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

The temperature on December 5, 1867 was about -4.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.