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• Adrianus van Dort, Utrecht († 1871)
• Antonet (Antoinetta) van de Poel, Strijp († 1960)
• Anna Maria van den Berg, Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1870)
• ALOIJSIUS VAN DEN BERGEN, SINT-JANSTEEN,ZEELAND,NEDERLAND († 1953)
• Antonius Langens, Nuland († 1908)
• Anna Maria van den Berg, Heesch, 5384, Netherlands († 1870)
• Adriana Maria De Hoog, Schiedam († 1947)
• Gommans, Blerick, Limburg, Nederland († 1913)
• Antonius Castel, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1870)
• Adrianus Stam, Nw-Lekkerland († 1886)

• Arent Bazuin (58), Midlaren, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anthonie Lindenberg (6), Jutphaas, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Volder (24), Petten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Kornelia De BONDT (33), Charlois
• Anna Maria Baeten (30), Zonhoven
• Adriana de Bondt (31), Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Alida van Schie (4), Voorhout, nr 75
• Aagje van 't Hof (35), Ridderkerk
• Anna Maria Snijders (76), Someren
• Arent Jans Bazuin (58), Midlaren, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1855 » King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company († 1932)
• 1864 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and manager († 1911)
• 1867 » Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece († 1922)
• 1871 » Frederick Converse, American composer and academic († 1940)
• 1874 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1876 » Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany († 1967)
• 1879 » Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic († 1946)
• 1880 » Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer († 1951)
• 1881 » Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter († 1934)
• 1882 » Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist († 1958)

• 1845 » Robert Smirke, English painter and illustrator (b. 1753)
• 1846 » Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)

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.
• February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
• February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
• May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• June 26 » The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
• August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
• October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

The temperature on January 5, 1870 was about 5.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.