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• Alberdina Annes Weerstra, Makkum (Wonseradeel), Friesland, Nederland († 1932)
• Anna Neeletta van Voorthuizen, Ingen († 1946)
• adriana van vuuren, capelle (noord brabant) († 1909)
• Adriaan van der Ree, St. Philipsland († 1960)
• Alberta Augusta Maria Jurrius, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1949)
• Adrianus van Gijzel, Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alphonsus Vermeir, Moerzeke-Castel († 1942)
• Anna Catharina Martens (geboren als Buntinx), Zepperen, België
• Anna Cornelia Nuijten, Halsteren († 1923)
• Alberta Dungen van den, 's-Hertogenbosch Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1939)

• Aaltje Smit (35), Onstwedde, Grooningen, Netherlands(Mussel Kanaal)
• van Alphen, Utrecht
• Aaltje Doornekamp (3), Linschoten
• Abraham Huisman (0), Rotterdam
• Adriana Pieternella de Bruijn, Capelle
• Aafje Dekker (50), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Maria Catharina Janssen (39), Oirsbeek
• Aafje (Aafie) Jans Dekker (50), Egmond aan Zee,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana VERSCHUEREN (80), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Wal (36), Zwollerkerspel, Nederland

• 1861 » Florida Ruffin Ridley, African-American civil rights activist, teacher, editor, and writer († 1943)
• 1862 » Frederick Delius, English composer († 1934)
• 1866 » Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter († 1944)
• 1866 » Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1944)
• 1867 » Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author († 1928)
• 1870 » Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet and civil servant († 1927)
• 1874 » John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist († 1960)
• 1876 » Havergal Brian, English composer († 1972)
• 1877 » Georges Catroux, French general and diplomat († 1969)
• 1880 » W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter († 1946)

• 1820 » George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1829 » István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1760)
• 1829 » Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French captain and politician (b. 1755)
• 1870 » Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 » Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
• 1888 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861)

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. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Antje
14. Neeltje
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).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
• March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• November 16 » The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.

The temperature on January 29, 1871 was about -6.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.