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• Arend Noordervliet, Nieuwenhoorn († 1861)
• Abraham Jelles de Vries, lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Van Deuneghem, Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen († 1864)
• Adelheid Andrássy van Csik-St. Király en Kraszna-Horka, Parno-kom-Zemplen, Zemplin, Slowakije († 1927)
• Arthur Joab Hill, Ash Grove, Dade, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1933)
• Adriaan Hubertus Tuerlings, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1934)
• Adriana van Amelsvoord, Waspik, Waalwijk, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1918)
• Arie Stierman, Streefkerk, Molenwaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1862)
• Antje Baas, Oudijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1863)
• Aaltje Arnoldus Eekma, Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Nederland

• Arend de Gram (0), Geldermalsen
• Aaltje van der Beek (69), Loosdrecht,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Haas (72), Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Aart Langen (79), Harderwijk
• Aagje Zonneveld (71), Beverwijk
• Anna Elisabeth Hartdorff (0), Amsterdam
• Arend van der Kooij (0), Vlaardingen
• Adriana van Kasteren (16), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Prijn (40), Schoten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Geertje Andries (68), Schoterland

• 1856 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian author and poet († 1916)
• 1858 » Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1932)
• 1864 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast († 1919)
• 1865 » Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1865 » James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian († 1935)
• 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

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 23 » President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
• April 13 » American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
• August 5 » American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
• November 1 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
• 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.

The temperature on August 27, 1861 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.