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• ten Cate, Wierden († 1861)
• Antje Kruk, Den Helder
• Adriana Cornelia de Wijs, (GL) Tiel
• Adrianus Jacobus Cornet, Hasselt, Nederland († 1944)
• Arend Otten, Noord C168, Noord, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1933)
• Aaltje Wybes Kloppenburg, Kollum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland († 1862)
• Anthonia Arsi(e), Frederiksoord / Vledder († 1893)
• Adelheid van Oppersdorff, Eckersdorf, Oberbayern, Beieren († 1893)
• Abraham de Huu, Oegstgeest, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Kloppenburg, Kollumerland c.a,, Friesland, Nederland († 1862)

• Adriana van de Water (37), Waardenburg (GL)
• Aaffien PILON (30), Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland
• Anje Sijgers van Slooten (82), Den Hoorn
• Anna Margaretha Wandelei (1), Hoogezand, Martenshoek
• Anna Walburgis Margaretha Albers (27), Groningen
• Anna Catharina Van Hout (84), Meerhout, België
• Barend Frank (0), Zierkizee
• Antoinette Klüner (33), Duisburg-Ruhrort
• Bernardus Baars (80), Meerenbroek (Wehl)
• SIEBRING (0), Buinerveen (Borger), Drenthe, Nederland

• 1856 » Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer († 1943)
• 1864 » Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence († 1926)
• 1867 » Prince Maximilian of Baden († 1929)
• 1871 » Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist († 1922)
• 1874 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor († 1971)
• 1875 » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician († 1973)
• 1875 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist († 1955)
• 1877 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist († 1935)
• 1878 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor († 1943)
• 1882 » Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts († 1975)

• 1794 » Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (b. 1754)
• 1806 » George Stubbs, English painter and academic (b. 1724)
• 1851 » Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (b. 1812)
• 1884 » Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• 1908 » Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (b. 1831)
• 1920 » John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
• 1929 » Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)

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 9 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• March 30 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
• May 29 » The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
• 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.
• November 8 » American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USSSan Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
• 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 July 10, 1861 was about 20.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.