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• Abraham DIJKSTRA, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1922)
• Westra, Almenum
• Adrianus Johannes van der Valk, Monster († 1930)
• Aaltje van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Aafje Smit, De Cocksdorp (Texel, NH) († 1867)
• Aaltje van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adse van der Hoek, amsterdam
• + Hittje (Hiltjo) + Pietje van der Veen Schipper, Korengarst, gem. Noordbroek,, Groningen, Nederland
• Alexander van Hoorn, Hattem, Nederland († 1943)
• Aleida Michaëla Elise de Waard, Groningen († 1939)

• Bernardina Vermassen (76), Gent
• Baukje Hendriks Andrae (0), Ferwerd
• Anna Regina Schulte (65), Lathen, Emsland
• Augustina Francina van Engel (1)
• Anne Joséphine "Alexandrine" de Lamarre (49), Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
• aaltje Berendsdr. Hulsebos (79), Westerbroek, Hoogezand
• Aaltje de Vries (6), den Helder, prov. Noord Holland
• Anna Christina Stoer (44), Apeldoorn, Nederland
• Ann "Nancy" Lynch (43), Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Aalbert van 't Veld (10), Achttienhoven

• 1830 » João de Deus, Portuguese poet and educator († 1896)
• 1839 » Josephine Cochrane, American inventor († 1913)
• 1841 » Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist († 1935)
• 1848 » LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster († 1917)
• 1856 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army († 1929)
• 1856 » Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic († 1937)
• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)

• 1819 » Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1739)
• 1844 » Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1869 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 » Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 » Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 » Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
• 1887 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 » John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)

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.
• February 18 » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• April 17 » The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
• May 6 » American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
• September 6 » American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
• September 17 » Argentine Civil Wars: The State of Buenos Aires defeats the Argentine Confederation at the Battle of Pavón.
• November 21 » American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.

The temperature on March 8, 1861 was about 6.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.