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• Adelais Rammant, Zedelgem, Belgium († 1923)
• Albertje Oldenhuizing, Zweeloo († 1870)
• Albertje Oldenhuizing, Zweeloo († 1870)
• Aaltje Zwol, Opsterland († 1937)
• Cornelis Josephus Maria de Swart, Raamsdonkveer († 1867)
• Aleida Elizabeth Vos de, Delft († 1868)
• Ada Freia Augusta Scholten, Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van der Kruk, 's-Gravenzande
• Adriana RIDDERHOFF, Dordrecht († 1868)
• Adrianus Aloysius Smulders, Tilburg († 1873)

• Anneke Muilekom (0), Weener (D)
• Aldegonda van Rens (60)
• Anna Tyskewicz (88), Parijs
• Abraham Johannes van Eijk (43), Rotterdam
• Aldegonda VAN RENSCH (60), Horst, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antonij (Anthonie, Anthonij) van Wijk (67), Delft
• Anna Maria Gever(t)s (57), Breda
• Alida Jacoba Dijxhoorn (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Mermans (6), Dessel (België)
• Alijda de Smit (0), Amersfoort

• 1856 » Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan general and politician († 1904)
• 1858 » Arthur Achleitner, German author († 1927)
• 1860 » Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet and author († 1887)
• 1860 » Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer († 1938)
• 1862 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach († 1965)
• 1864 » Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and suffragette († 1917)
• 1865 » Mary Gilmore, Australian socialist, poet and journalist († 1962)
• 1868 » Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications († 1955)
• 1876 » Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator and stage designer († 1942)
• 1877 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer († 1935)

• 1836 » Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755)
• 1855 » Henry Colburn, English publisher (b. 1785)
• 1861 » Ranavalona I, Queen consort of Kingdom of Madagascar and then sovereign (b. 1778)
• 1878 » Richard Upjohn, English-American architect (b. 1802)
• 1886 » Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)
• 1887 » Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (b. 1837)
• 1888 » John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
• 1893 » Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
• 1900 » José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)

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. Hendrikus
15. Wilhelmus
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.
• March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
• April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
• 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 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
• December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

The temperature on August 16, 1867 was about 22.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.