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• Anna Maria Henrica Josepha Overes, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Abraham van der Biezen, Leiden († 1879)
• Clara Johanna Taute, Molenrivier, George, Cape Province, South Africa († 1924)
• Catharina Koppens COPPENS, Deurne,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1940)
• Charles Jacques Louis Roosmale Nepveu († 1944)
• Arentje van de REE Jdr, Stellendam, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 1938)
• Abraham Lopes Cardozo, Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam Holland, The Netherlands († 1931)
• Clara Johanna Taute, Molenrivier, George, Cape Province, South Africa († 1924)
• Alijda Hoefsloot, Hoevelaken, GD, Nederland
• Berta Velte, Dodenau, Kreis Frankenberg

• Anna Maria Johanna Grootenboer (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van der Veer (29), fijnaart en heijningen (noord brabant)
• Abraham Rouw (0), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Agnes ORR (86), Newbigging
• Arie van der Lans (2), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van der Veen (76), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Breunisje van Essen (30), Beekbergen
• Bauke Minnes Brouwer (77), Hallum, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jacobs Wever (42), Haulerwijk
• Broer Cornelisz Boonstra (3), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland

• 1845 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1922)
• 1850 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic († 1914)
• 1854 » E. W. Scripps, American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company († 1926)
• 1857 » Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library († 1930)
• 1858 » Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1858 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia († 1927)
• 1862 » Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet († 1942)
• 1863 » George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet and author († 1909)
• 1868 » Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary († 1957)
• 1870 » Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher († 1954)

• 1815 » Thomas Picton, Welsh-English general and politician (b. 1758)
• 1833 » Robert Hett Chapman, American minister, missionary, and academic (b. 1771)
• 1835 » William Cobbett, English farmer and journalist (b. 1763)
• 1860 » Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (b. 1783)
• 1866 » Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
• 1902 » Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
• 1916 » Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1890)
• 1917 » Titu Maiorescu, Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)

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.
• January 11 » American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.
• February 9 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• March 10 » El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
• April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
• June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
• 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 June 18, 1861 was about 19.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.