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• Andries Stephanus Tischauser, Maassluis († 1940)
• Aaltje Alting, Roswinkel (gem. Emmen) († 1949)
• Agnes Maria Buiteman, Gorinchem,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1954)
• Agnesia Maria Buiteman, Gorinchem († 1954)
• Amelia Maria Becker Hoff, den haag
• Agatha Louisa Johanna Maria van Dartel, 's Hertogenbosch († 1911)
• Abraham van Thijn, Zaandam († 1942)
• Agnes Hawinkels, Venlo (Tegelen) (Limburg) († 1904)
• Amalie Schneider, Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Adriaan KLEIN, Sliedrecht († 1870)

• Catharina van Bussel (8), Helmond
• Christina Masman (76), Zutphen
• Christina de Raaijdt (75), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Apolonia Kallenberg (47), Leiden
• Agatha HUISMAN (1), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Margaretha Boll (31), Haarlemmermeer
• Abel Bruin (4), Abbekerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Visser (0), Deventer
• Anna Maria Minnaert (77), Heille
• Antoine Theodoor Henri Louis Raaff (45), Batavia,, Nederlands-Indië

• 1859 » Horace Hutchinson, English golfer († 1932)
• 1862 » Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (d.1940)
• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)

• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)

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. Petronella

• 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 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
• January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
• February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
• February 28 » The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
• August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 16, 1870 was about 20.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.