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• Alida DIJKHUIZEN, Startenhuizen († 1876)
• Antonius Gerardus Johannis van Straaten, Vianen, Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1881)
• Koerselman, Dortherhoek (Deventer), Overijssel, Nederland († 1861)
• Adrianus van Aalst, Vlaardingen
• Antonius Johannes Kupers, Bergh, Gelderland, Nederland († 1862)
• Alida Zonderwijk, Lisse († 1903)
• Anna Catharina VAN EVERCOOREN, Antwerpen († 1934)
• Adriaan Duijzer, Sint Annaland
• Aaltje Borger, Grafhorst,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1868)
• Alida Zonderwijk, Lisse († 1903)

• Aeike Wubbes Meendering (39), Vlagtwedde
• Antje Vendel (0), Schermerhorn
• Aagje Visser (22), Giekerk
• Anne Wybes Boorsma (64), Vrouwenparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Aike Wubbes Meendering (39), Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Koerselman (0), Dortherhoek (Deventer), Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia van Aken (34), Oudewater
• Albert Snippe (0), Smilde
• Alida Maria BRINK (31)
• Age Hendriks de Vries (69), Scharl, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland

• 1853 » Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator († 1928)
• 1857 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1952)
• 1859 » William Bliss Baker, American painter († 1886)
• 1865 » Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician († 1917)
• 1867 » Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator († 1950)
• 1870 » Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland († 1956)
• 1871 » Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer († 1950)
• 1874 » Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel († 1952)
• 1874 » Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School († 1948)
• 1875 » Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast († 1962)

• 1819 » Gustavus Conyngham, Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.
• 1830 » André Parmentier, Belgian-American architect (b. 1780)
• 1852 » Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1815)
• 1875 » Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator (b. 1826)
• 1881 » Theobald Boehm, German flute player and composer (b. 1794)
• 1884 » Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina (b. 1810)
• 1895 » Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (b. 1824)
• 1899 » Constant Fornerod, Swiss academic and politician, 10th President of the Swiss Council of States (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (b. 1831)
• 1908 » Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1827)

• 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 9 » Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
• May 6 » American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
• May 20 » American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
• June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.
• July 16 » American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
• August 6 » Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.

The temperature on November 27, 1861 was about 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.