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• Ankje Gerrits Boorsma, Munnekezijl, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland († 1897)
• Adrianus Johannes Elshof, Schiedam († 1862)
• Alexander Gerhardus Veltman, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1875)
• Aaltje van der Meer, 's-Gravenzande († 1939)
• Aafke Ulferts van der Wal, Koudum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, Nederland († 1872)
• Anna Margaretha Krallmann, Niederlangen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Anna Margaretha Krallmann, Niederlangen, Lathen
• Borsten, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Mae Hensley (Lewis), Napa County, California, Verenigde Staten († 1943)
• Adrianus Johannes Elshof, Schiedam,Zuid Holland,Netherlands († 1862)

• Agatha Catharina van der Wooning (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina VAN EEGHEM (27), Sint Kruis,8310,West Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Anna Hostetter (88), Mt Joy Twp, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
• Anna Theresia WARNIER (63), Brugge
• Antje Jacobs Brouwer (68), Egmond-Binnen
• Anna Metzler Hostetter (88), Mount Joy Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania
• Antje Jacobdr Brouwer (68), Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Heeres Habbe(n)s (44), Winsum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Glaudina Odé (76), Utrecht
• Antje Jacobsd X Brouwer (68), Egmond Binnen

• 1840 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber († 1921)
• 1847 » Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver († 1903)
• 1848 » Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean lieutenant († 1882)
• 1848 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic († 1907)
• 1852 » Terauchi Masatake, Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Japan († 1919)
• 1866 » Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician, 3rd and last Governor-General of the Irish Free State († 1963)
• 1870 » Charles Edmund Brock, British painter and book illustrator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernie McLea, Canadian ice hockey player († 1931)
• 1878 » André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën († 1935)
• 1880 » Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer († 1973)

• 1807 » Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Charles XIII, king of Sweden (b. 1748)
• 1881 » Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
• 1882 » Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)
• 1892 » Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
• 1917 » Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
• 1922 » Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)

• 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.
• March 11 » American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• March 17 » The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
• August 5 » The United States Army abolishes flogging.
• October 1 » Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
• November 9 » The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.

The temperature on February 5, 1861 was about 3.0 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.