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• Adrianus Hendrik Damen, Amsterdam (Amsterdam) (Noord-Holland) († 1931)
• Albertus Bril, Hardenberg, Overijsel, Netherlands(Heemse)
• Adrianus Johannes Blonk, Rotterdam († 1904)
• Albert Victor Julius Joseph Michael Graaf van Dietrichstein-Mensdorff-Pouilly, L'vov (Lemberg), Oekraine († 1945)
• Molenaar, Stolwijk, S-Hlnd, Nthr († 1861)
• Alexander Hollants, Mol (B) († 1940)
• Adolphine Motquin-Robillard, Temploux, Belgium († 1945)
• ? ?, Brummen († 1948)
• Adriana Middelkoop, Schoonrewoerd († 1928)
• ADRIANA BELIA SCHIPPERS, AMEIDE († 1935)

• Aafje ROOD (31), Westwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Zuidervaart (0), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anje Jacobs Dorenbos (Doornbos - Dorenbosch - Hut) (76), Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Anje Jakobs Hut (76), Zuidbroek
• Amandus BOGAERT (44), Zedelgem
• Anje Jakobs Doornbos (76), Zuidbroek
• Molenaar (0)
• Aaltjen Derks Otten (75), Wilp,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Derks Otten (76), Wilp (gem.Voorst)
• Aafje Rood (31), Westwoud aan den Straatweg

• 1847 » Jesse James, American outlaw († 1882)
• 1856 » Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician († 1922)
• 1867 » Amy Beach, American pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1871 » Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)
• 1872 » Horace Rice, Australian tennis player († 1950)
• 1872 » V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician († 1936)
• 1873 » Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer († 1942)
• 1874 » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1876 » Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal († 1956)
• 1880 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr († 1936)

• 1836 » Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (b. 1790)
• 1838 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (b. 1764)
• 1857 » Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798)
• 1876 » Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1877 » Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (b. 1849)
• 1894 » George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (b. 1822)
• 1898 » Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 » Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1902 » Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)

• 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 1 » American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
• February 18 » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• February 23 » President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
• April 19 » American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
• August 5 » The United States Army abolishes flogging.
• 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.

The temperature on September 5, 1861 was about 18.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.