About the day » Sunday January 6, 1861Calender converter

• Aart Vos, Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Stern, Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland († 1945)
• Adriana ROGGEBAND, Waarde († 1906)
• Alexandrina de Moraes, Santo Amaro, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aafje ZWART, Egmond aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1861)
• Agatha van Heeringen, Vinkeveen († 1949)
• adrianus JONGENOTTER, oost barendrecht († 1945)
• Adolph Kels, Ratingen, Stadt, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Aaltje Spil, Den Helder
• Adelbert Festag, Seefeld († 1940)

• Antje Sjoukes Dijkstra (30), Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Halkers (54), Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aarjen Balder (1), Broek op Langedijk, Nederland
• Antonius van de Mortel (26), Meijel, Li.NL
• Anke Wynia (1), Hennaarderadeel, Sudwest-Fryslan, Friesdland, Netherlands
• Anne Michelle REUX (52), Saint-Carreuc,22150,Côtes-D'Armor,Bretagne,FRANCE
• Antonia Jansen (van Rossum) (4), Heteren
• Adriana WELBORN (43), Ridderkerk
• Arnold Floris Roelvink (71), Bredevoort, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Fernhout (0), Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1856 » Giuseppe Martucci, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1909)
• 1857 » Hugh Mahon, Irish-Australian publisher and politician, 10th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1931)
• 1857 » William Russell, American lawyer and politician, 37th Governor of Massachusetts († 1896)
• 1859 » Samuel Alexander, Australian-English philosopher and academic († 1938)
• 1861 » George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian († 1940)
• 1861 » Victor Horta, Belgian architect, designed Hôtel van Eetvelde († 1947)
• 1870 » Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany († 1944)
• 1872 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer († 1915)
• 1874 » Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer († 1948)
• 1878 » Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina († 1970)

• 1829 » Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
• 1831 » Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 » Frances Burney, English author and playwright (b. 1752)
• 1852 » Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
• 1855 » Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)
• 1882 » Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)
• 1884 » Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
• 1885 » Bharatendu Harishchandra, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)
• 1896 » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1902 » Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)

• 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 29 » Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
• October 9 » American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
• December 4 » The 109 Electors of the several states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice President.
• December 9 » American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
• December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

The temperature on January 6, 1861 was about -5.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.