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• Alida Martina van Alphen, Kerkdriel († 1943)
• Antje BOSMAN, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1938)
• Antonia van Hooft, Maasdriel († 1861)
• Abraham Koren, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Govers, Wouw (Roosendaal) (Noord-Brabant) († 1885)
• Adrianus Theodorus de Rooij, Westbroek, Nederland
• ?? Cohen, Rotterdam († 1861)
• Adriana van Mierlo, Baardwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1946)
• Anneta Christina Alida Morel, Amsterdam
• Roenhorst, ijzevoorde (Doetinchem Ambt) († 1861)

• Andries Dankers (0), Haarlemmermeer
• Aaltjen Zeevalkink (66), Wassinkbrink (Zelhem)
• Albert Ineke (0), Castricum
• Adrianus de Haan (67), Hillegersberg
• Aaldert van Eck (83), Bennekom, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aart Verbeek (52), Delft
• Anna Margaretha Guitoneau (3), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Derk van Gennep (38), Rangkasbetoeng (res. Bantam)
• Adriaantje Langenhuijzen (32), Heeswijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Slegers (73), Gestel, Noord-Brabant, Pays-Bas

• 1841 » William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star († 1915)
• 1843 » Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator († 1901)
• 1849 » Luther Burbank, American botanist and author († 1926)
• 1850 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1921)
• 1850 » Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia († 1937)
• 1857 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1872 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter († 1944)
• 1873 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress († 1959)
• 1875 » Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor († 1937)
• 1878 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer († 1927)

• 1809 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)
• 1810 » Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750)
• 1838 » Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
• 1897 » Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (b. 1813)
• 1904 » Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 » Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
• 1920 » Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
• 1928 » Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
• 1932 » Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• March 10 » El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
• May 13 » Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
• August 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.
• October 21 » American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.
• November 28 » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Missouri to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.
• December 10 » Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.

The temperature on March 7, 1861 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.