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• Adriana van Leent, Terheijden († 1942)
• Albertus Meijerink, Apeldoorn
• Albert de Winkel, Brummen († 1948)
• Alfred D. Vosburg († 1865)
• Adriana van LEENT, Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Van Den OUDEN, Bruinisse († 1913)
• Abraham van den Ouden, Bruinisse († 1913)
• Adriaantje (Jaantje) Middelkoop, Schoonrewoerd
• Albertus Bril, Heemse, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1943)
• ? ?, Brummen († 1948)

• Anthonij van Kooten (0), Breukelen-St. Pieters
• Albertus Zuidervaart (0), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Scheerens (65), Westerlo, België
• Anje Jacobs Hut (76), Zuidbroek,, Groningen, Nederland
• Amandus BOGAERT (44), Zedelgem
• Aaltjen Derks Otten (75), Wilp,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Lourens Hector (71), Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Albertje Martens Spoelstra (6), Hallum
• Anne Marie Dereymaeker (67), Tervuren (B)
• Anje Jakobs Hut (76), Zuidbroek

• 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 13 » Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
• April 27 » American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
• May 13 » The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 20 » American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

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%.