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• Adrianus van Duin, Zierikzee († 1919)
• Adriaan Ooms, Groot-Ammers († 1937)
• Adriaan Warmoeskerken, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1937)
• Adriaan de Jonge, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1878)
• Alexis De Schryver, Denderhoutem, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgie
• Alida Klein, Oude Pekela (Groningen)
• Andries van der wacht
• *Sara ZIRKZEE, Leiden († 1941)
• Adrianus van Duin, Zierikzee († 1919)
• Alida Wilhelmina Breedveld, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1872)

• Alexander Donald Mac Gillavry- (39), (Aboard Ship 'Impératrice') to the Netherlands
• Anna Maria Meert (34), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Aagje Jacobs Wijma (Weima) (63), Baarderadeel
• Anna Huijser (53), Ridderkerk
• Anna Maria Meert (34), Maastricht
• Aaltje Makop (1), Lexmond,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Brosius (76), Doornspijk
• - Ummels (0), Rothem, Limburg, Nederland
• (Stillborn) KEULEN (0), Wymbritseradeel Friesland Netherlands
• Albertus van Lunteren (23), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1858 » Eugene Foss, American businessman and politician, 45th Governor of Massachusetts († 1939)
• 1859 » Julius Klengel, German cellist and composer († 1933)
• 1861 » Bhikaiji Cama, Indian activist († 1936)
• 1870 » Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting († 1960)
• 1871 » Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer († 1960)
• 1872 » Jaan Teemant, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th State Elder of Estonia († 1941)
• 1873 » María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui, Cuban pianist and composer († 1957)
• 1878 » Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet († 1947)
• 1880 » Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian, oldest verified American person ever († 1999)
• 1882 » Max Decugis, French tennis player († 1978)

• 1834 » Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
• 1848 » Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (b. 1817)
• 1863 » William Debenham, English businessman, founded Debenhams (b. 1794)
• 1889 » Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (b. 1856)
• 1889 » D. H. Hill, American general and academic (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American soldier and composer (b. 1829)
• 1896 » Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)
• 1930 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)

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.
• May 30 » Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after a proclamation by John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veterans group).
• June 1 » The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
• September 25 » The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
• November 3 » John Willis Menard (R-Louisiana) was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.

The temperature on September 24, 1868 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.