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• "Friedrich Leopold" Aloysius Maria Hubertus von Loë († 1899)
• Antonius BAAS, Westbroek, Utrecht, Nederland († 1916)
• Anna Maria Huijsmans, Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Aafke Plekker, Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1861)
• * Aaltje van Gent, Leerbroek († 1941)
• Anna Catharina van Hagen, Pijnacker († 1862)
• Aldelaida de Canne, Koewacht († 1943)
• * Johanna Anna van der Giessen, Rozenburg († 1930)
• Agathon Carel Roeloffs Valk, Nieuwer-Amstel
• Adrianus Ruigrok, Vierpolders, Brielle († 1874)

• Arnolda van Wijk (3), IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernardo Belisário Soares de Souza (63)
• Archibald MACCORMACK (71), Big Pond, Cape Breton.NS
• Aarnhout Zonnevijlle (46), Zuidzande, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis van Deursen (18), Maasbree
• Aagje Abrahamsd NUGTEREN (63), Ridderkerk
• Aafke van Breeden (3), Kollumerzwaag
• Arie VERBOOM (0), Ridderkerk
• Adriaan de Lepper (56), Wintelre, NL
• Anna Maria KRAAKMAN (0), Zwaag, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1837 » George Ashlin, Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral († 1921)
• 1841 » Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna († 1887)
• 1853 » Carl Larsson, Swedish painter and author († 1919)
• 1858 » Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch († 1939)
• 1872 » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer († 1917)
• 1878 » Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer († 1945)
• 1879 » Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist († 1958)
• 1883 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village († 1978)
• 1883 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician († 1966)
• 1884 » Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia († 1948)

• 1805 » Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 » Richard Hurd, English bishop (b. 1720)
• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1904 » Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)

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.
• February 23 » President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
• April 17 » The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
• October 1 » Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
• October 17 » Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
• November 7 » The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
• 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.

The temperature on May 28, 1861 was about 13.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.