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• Akke de Haas, Barradeel († 1866)
• Adrianus van Beurden, Haarsteeg gemeente Hedikhuizen († 1942)
• Albert Kieboom, Rotterdam
• Aleida Esmeijer, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriana van Kessel, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1876)
• Akke Jacobs de Haas, Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1866)
• Albert MENSINGA, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1923)
• Andries Christiaan Johan van Zon, Hof van Delft († 1862)
• Adriana van Kessel, Schijndel († 1876)
• Aart Bastiaansz Jungerius, Katendrecht Rdm

• Anna Catharina de Nijs (69), Bergen op Zoom
• Adriana Pieterse Wesdorp (67), Stavenisse
• Arend Jans Snijder (67), Ankum, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Booij (0), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Koene (12), Monster
• Arnoldus Fokkes van Bruggen (46), Opeind, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adriana Wesdorp (66), Stavenisse
• Barbara Ann Dick (65), Penn Run, Cherryhill, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Arendina Nieuwenhof (1), De Huizen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arnoldus Fokkes van Bruggen (46), Smallingerland

• 1851 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System († 1931)
• 1866 » Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist († 1930)
• 1870 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician († 1933)
• 1870 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian († 1958)
• 1870 » Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet († 1925)
• 1878 » C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India († 1972)
• 1882 » Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1945)
• 1882 » Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1950)
• 1883 » Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic († 1973)

• 1831 » Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1850 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 » Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
• 1865 » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)

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.
• March 3 » Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
• April 29 » American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
• June 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
• August 28 » American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
• October 17 » Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
• November 21 » American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.

The temperature on December 10, 1861 was about 5.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.