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• Adriana Pieternella Smallegange, Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albertus Petrus van der Brugghen, Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1862)
• Adriana Pieternella Smallegange, Nieuwerkerk († 1931)
• Auguste Blondeel, Brugge († 1929)
• Antonetta Breure, Haarlemmermeer († 1861)
• Antje van den Berg, Delfshaven
• Antonetta Breure, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1861)
• Albert Boelen, Horsten, Onstwedde († 1937)
• Addison Van Sickle, Grand Blanc, Genesee Co., MI († 1941)
• Aloijsius van Belkom, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Aleida Scholten (85), Tubbergen
• Arie van der Kuij (54), Moordrecht
• Bruno Geudens (39)
• Albertje Jansdr Padding (73), Hoogeveen
• Adriana de Zeeuw (71), Nieuw en St.Joosland
• Arie Jacques (1), Rotterdam
• Alberdina Karels (0), Bierum, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert HEINS (49), Ljouwert, Fryslân, Netherlands 8911
• Arie van Dijk (83), Mijdrecht (Utrecht)
• Abel Bordeaux (35), Padangse Bovenlanden

• 1838 » Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author († 1910)
• 1846 » George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company († 1914)
• 1862 » Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician († 1927)
• 1866 » Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony († 1932)
• 1874 » Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts († 1950)
• 1876 » Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice († 1941)
• 1882 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer († 1937)
• 1886 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy († 1965)
• 1888 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot († 1918)

• 1819 » Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
• 1829 » Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 » Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)

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 10 » American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
• 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.
• February 13 » Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
• March 17 » The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
• April 13 » American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• 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 October 6, 1861 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.