About the day » Saturday December 18, 1869Calender converter

• Aleijda Maria van Lier, Millingen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1904)
• Andries Koolhaas, Delft, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1870)
• Abraham (II) van Tijn, Gouda († 1931)
• Alexander McBride, Kilfinan, Argylle, Scotland
• Anna Catharina Susanna Nieuwboer, Amsterdam {NH}
• Amanda Marie Baye, Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 1927)
• Anna Helena Bruining, Emmen Rundeveen († 1931)
• Adriana Carolina Heijt, Amsterdam († 1926)
• Allen Fayette Horton, Baltimore, Maryland († 1916)
• Adriana van der Linden, Lisse († 1925)

• Anna JEISMAN, Schiedam,Gemeente Schiedam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Adriana Cornelia BAKKERS (70), Rotterdam, 6240, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje van der Kwast (68), Voorschoten, South Holland, Netherlands
• Aartje Bronkhorst (38), Elspeet (Ermelo)
• Aartje de Vos (0), Streefkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Georgiana Elisabeth Hay (40)
• Auke Geerts Westra (71), Beetsterzwaag, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• "Francisco Javier" María de la Paz Bernardo Eulogio Juan Nepomuceno Girón (66), Madrid
• Adriana Cornelia BAKKERS (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoine GOB (0), SERAING, Liège, Belgique

• 1860 » Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer († 1908)
• 1861 » Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic († 1924)
• 1863 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria († 1914)
• 1867 » Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder († 1941)
• 1869 » Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator († 1965)
• 1870 » Saki, British short story writer († 1916)
• 1873 » Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines († 1957)
• 1875 » Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower († 1941)
• 1878 » Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union († 1953)
• 1879 » Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator († 1940)

• 1829 » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744)
• 1843 » Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
• 1848 » Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
• May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
• August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

The temperature on December 18, 1869 was about 11.3 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The air pressure was 34 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.