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• Annigje Sok, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 1962)
• Alexandrina Roosnek, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Anna van Laerhoven, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Adam Rooth, Abcoude-Proostdij († 1870)
• Anna Heemskerk, Rijnsburg († 1870)
• Abraham Drielsma, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands († 1870)
• Andrew Simeon McMurry, North Carolina († 1958)
• Albertus Grobben, Almelo († 1875)
• Anna Potze, Rijsdam († 1953)
• Anna Catharina PLOMPEN, Berendrecht, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1946)

• Anna Margaretha Schneider (45), Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Vaartjes (0), Kalenberg
• Adrianus FRANCKEN (75), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van Eindhoven (1), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• De Cuyper (57)
• Anna Catharina Peeters (58), Sevenum, Horst, Limburg, Niederlande
• "Dirk" Beerdsz Hoksbergen (69), Kampen,, Overijssel, Nederland
• - Smit (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aafke Douwes Hiemstra (34), Hantumhuizen
• Abraham Rutherford Sevier (63)

• 1855 » Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna († 1908)
• 1859 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1927)
• 1865 » Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer († 1952)
• 1869 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian-Russian poet and author († 1923)
• 1872 » Johan Pitka, Estonian admiral († 1944)
• 1876 » Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1957)
• 1877 » Gabriele Münter, German painter († 1962)
• 1878 » Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress († 1961)
• 1880 » Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico († 1928)
• 1886 » José Abad Santos, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines († 1942)

• 1806 » Elizabeth Carter, English poet and translator (b. 1717)
• 1837 » Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (b. 1813)
• 1837 » Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1756)
• 1887 » Multatuli, Dutch-German author and civil servant (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
• 1916 » Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1928 » George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Aaltje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Neeltje
12. Trijntje
13. Grietje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
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 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.
• January 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
• May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
• July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
• August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

The temperature on February 19, 1870 was about -0.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.