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• Aart Pluim, Elspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
• Philomena Adriana Luijks, Halsteren († 1868)
• Aart Pluim, Elspeet († 1952)
• Adriana van der Borden, Vlaardingen († 1869)
• Alfred Edward NICKERSON, Hornsey, Middlesex, England († 1918)
• Anna Stephana Vink, Nieuwer-Amstel, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1873)
• Anje Arbeider, Scheemda gemeente Oldambt Groningen († 1951)
• Anna van Heteren, Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Abraham Dieleman, Hoek († 1959)
• Stahl, Versen, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1868)

• Anna Maria de WINTER (42), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje Fijtje van Luijk (18), Pernis (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• (Maria) Anna Elisabeth Stassen (74), Hoensbroek, Nederland
• Adriana van Zadel (60), Haarlem
• Adrianus Wircken (67)
• Anna Babcock (77)
• Annetje Fijtje van Luijk (18)
• Arnoldus Josephus Papen, Koningsbosch
• Anne Généviève Hyachinte Baudry, Paris, 75002, France
• Anna Flickinger (76), West Cocalico, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

• 1864 » Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer († 1937)
• 1866 » Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge († 1944)
• 1866 » Maria Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Napoléon Bonaparte († 1926)
• 1867 » Gustav Giemsa, German chemist and bacteriologist († 1948)
• 1867 » Patrick Joseph Hayes, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1938)
• 1869 » Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun († 1919)
• 1869 » Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor († 1945)
• 1871 » Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist († 1948)
• 1871 » William Heard Kilpatrick, American pedagogue († 1965)
• 1873 » Ramón Castillo, Argentine politician († 1944)

• 1856 » Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
• 1864 » Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
• 1866 » Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)
• 1880 » Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1882 » Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
• 1886 » William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1894 » Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829)
• 1898 » Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
• 1903 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867)
• 1903 » Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier

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. Gerardus

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

• 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).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 24 » Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
• March 8 » Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
• September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
• September 25 » The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
• November 30 » A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården.
• December 10 » The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

The temperature on November 20, 1868 was about -1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.