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• Anna-Barbara kreutz, Venlo († 1947)
• Alle Sybes van Huizen, Suwald, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Nederland († 1861)
• Adriana Maria Vlemminx, Oirschot
• Petronella van Onsenoort, Raamsdonkveer († 1861)
• Aaltje van (de) Beek, Harderwijk († 1942)
• Anna Gertrudes Janssen, Bree (B) († 1934)
• Agatha Janmaat, Zevenhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1861)
• Anna Maria Christina Philtiens, Kozen, België († 1914)
• Anna Maria Catharina van der Burg, Schiedam
• Albert Boers, Gelders Veenendaal, gemeente Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1945)

• Andries Nijhuis (35), Hengelo
• Bart ( Bartholomeus ) Maartensz. van Vliet (69), ,, Woubrugge, Nederland
• Catharina Gielen (61), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Huijsmans (62), Zevenbergen (NL)
• Anna Maria Kleinlooh (0), Nijmegen
• Anna Velte (2), Dodenau, Kreis Frankenberg
• Aleida Brethouwer (68), Aalten
• Arij Legerstee (69), Goes
• Catharina Sierks (50), Groningen
• Barbara Livengood (96), Richland, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1846 » James Timberlake, American lieutenant, police officer, and farmer († 1891)
• 1846 » Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator and painter († 1886)
• 1852 » Hector Sévin, French cardinal († 1916)
• 1852 » Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and educator († 1934)
• 1855 » Dorothy Tennant, British painter († 1926)
• 1857 » Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France († 1932)
• 1866 » Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire († 1913)
• 1868 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1869 » Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer († 1939)
• 1873 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter († 1939)

• 1820 » Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 » Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)

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 1 » Liberal forces supporting Benito Juárez enter Mexico City.
• February 4 » American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
• July 26 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
• August 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
• August 28 » American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
• September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.

The temperature on March 22, 1861 was about 3.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.