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• Antje Heetbrink, Diepenheim
• Aaltje Cornelia Sonnevijlle, Nieuwvliet, Zeeland, Nederland Nederland († 1939)
• Anna Gijzen, Haarlem († 1931)
• Agathon Carel Roeloffs Valk, Nieuwer-Amstel
• Alida Weeda, Maassluis († 1939)
• * Johanna Anna van der Giessen, Rozenburg († 1930)
• Aaltje Mast, Zuid-Beijerland
• Anna Gijzen, Haarlem († 1931)
• Aaltje van Zuilekom, Warnsveld
• Aaltje van Gent

• Aarnout Zonnevijlle* (46), Zuidzande (Zld.)
• Aarnhout Zonnevijlle (46), Zuidzande, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelia de Swart (79), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Marie Antoinette" Jeanne Ernestine de Mengin Fondragon (94), Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes, Aube, France
• Antonia Klein Lebbink (1), Harfsen
• Aafke Binderts van Breeden (3), Kollumerzwaag Frl
• Abraham Wessels (35), Sint-Annaland
• Bernardo Belisário Soares de Souza (63)
• Aaltje Uilkes Schouwstra (70), Twijzel
• Aarnout Zonnevijlle (46), Zuidzande, ZLD, Nederland

• 1837 » George Ashlin, Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral († 1921)
• 1841 » Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna († 1887)
• 1853 » Carl Larsson, Swedish painter and author († 1919)
• 1858 » Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch († 1939)
• 1872 » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer († 1917)
• 1878 » Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer († 1945)
• 1879 » Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist († 1958)
• 1883 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village († 1978)
• 1883 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician († 1966)
• 1884 » Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia († 1948)

• 1805 » Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 » Richard Hurd, English bishop (b. 1720)
• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1904 » Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)

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 10 » American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
• February 9 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• February 18 » With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
• July 16 » American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
• 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.
• December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 28, 1861 was about 13.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.