About the day » Monday August 12, 1867Calender converter

• Alphonsius Geldof, Temse († 1934)
• * Teunis Johannes van Geelen, Schoonhoven († 1918)
• Alfred Bendien, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1929)
• Vande Sande, Snellegem
• Adelard Goyette, Quebec, Canada († 1925)
• Anna Alida Cornet, Haarlem († 1931)
• Aleida OLTHOF, Lonneker, Nederland, Overijssel, Nederland († 1945)
• Aaltje Peek, Culemborg († 1867)
• Anna Adelaine Janknegt
• * Elizabeth (1) de Ruiter, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1867)

• (1) Hendrik van Drogenbroek (van Droogenbroek) (37), Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Anthonius Bijvoet (1), Berkhout
• adrianus pietersz van der LAAN (65), dubbeldam
• Antonius Bergs (67), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Bergs (67), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Arejaantje Boots (29), Graft
• Ariaantje Boots (29), Graft
• Christian Huber (74)
• Adrianus van der Laan (65), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van de Linden (44), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)
• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)
• 1871 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia († 1939)
• 1876 » Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author and playwright († 1958)
• 1877 » Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1960)

• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)

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.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
• July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
• October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
• November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

The temperature on August 12, 1867 was about 26.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 48%.