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• (Sophia) Magdalena Huijsman, Middelburg
• Albertus Lijnis-Huffenreuter, Tangerang, Indonesië († 1902)
• Alberdina van SOMMEREN, Leeuwen (tot 1818) Wamel (tot 1985) West Maas en Waal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1936)
• Andreas Johannes Flach, Ridderkerk († 1861)
• Adrianus Soeters, Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1934)
• Adrianus TUITEL
• Adrianus Schut, Koedijk, The Netherlands
• Aart Stange, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1940)
• Anje Danhof, t Zandt († 1887)
• Anna Gertrudis Coenemans, Susteren († 1936)

• Antje Ruurts Veltman (37), Grootegast, Nederland
• Aaltje van Heerwaarden (57), Den Burg (Texel, NH)
• Ann Salome Conrad (89), Rosebay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia
• Adriana Sloof(f) (49), Ridderkerk
• Adrianus Cool (2), Schiedam,Gemeente Schiedam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Anna Hendriks VOLTMERS (55), Hornhuizen, Kloosterburen, De Marne, Groningen, Nederland
• Akke Rienks de Boer (65), Harlingen
• Antje Veldman (37), Opende, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje van Heerwaarden (57), Den Burg
• Cramer (0), Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1845 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1936)
• 1847 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph († 1931)
• 1855 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)

• 1795 » Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (b. 1740)
• 1829 » Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)
• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)

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 19 » American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
• March 11 » American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• April 19 » American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
• April 27 » American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
• July 25 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
• October 24 » The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.

The temperature on February 11, 1861 was about 0.7 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.