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• aaltje arisd volkers, heerhugowaard († 1944)
• Aleida Geziena Bartelink, Stad Almelo, aan de Grotestraat († 1941)
• Adriana Poortvliet, Colijnsplaat († 1955)
• Adriana Cornelia Stötzer, Amsterdam († 1918)
• Anna Sophia van der Merwe († 1898)
• Anna Geertruda Maria Victoria Raupp, Bergeijk
• Adriana Johanna van Aken, Fijnaart
• Aaltje Volkers, Heerhugowaard, Nederland († 1944)
• Aafje Zonneveld, Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1866)
• Aaltje Bakker, Avereest († 1866)

• "Léopoldine" Françoise Marie de Namur (49), Metz, Moselle, France
• Annigje BOTH (0), Stolwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas (Andries) van Ginderen, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Angela Kemper (0), Dankern, Haren
• Andreas Ginderen, Van (69), Roosendaal en Nispen, Nederland
• Antje Sjoerds (Siewerts) de Boer (75), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Alberdina Kollen (0), Lutten, Nederland
• Antje Sjoerds de Boer (75), Donkerbroek, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan van de Velde (74), Dreischor, Schouwen-Duiveland,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pauw (79), Huissen

• 1848 » Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral († 1934)
• 1850 » Edward Smith, English captain († 1912)
• 1850 » John Collier, English painter and author († 1934)
• 1850 » Samuel Gompers, English-American labor leader († 1924)
• 1858 » Neel Doff, Dutch-Belgian author († 1942)
• 1859 » Wilhelm II, German Emperor († 1941)
• 1869 » Will Marion Cook, American violinist and composer († 1944)
• 1878 » Dorothy Scarborough, American author († 1935)
• 1885 » Jerome Kern, American composer and songwriter († 1945)
• 1885 » Seison Maeda, Japanese painter († 1977)

• 1812 » John Perkins, Anglo-Jamaican captain
• 1814 » Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1762)
• 1816 » Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, English admiral and politician (b. 1724)
• 1851 » John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (b. 1789)
• 1860 » János Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1802)
• 1880 » Edward Middleton Barry, English architect and academic, co-designed the Halifax Town Hall and the Royal Opera House (b. 1830)
• 1901 » Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
• 1910 » Thomas Crapper, English plumber and businessman (b. 1836)
• 1919 » Endre Ady, Hungarian poet and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1921 » Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant (b. 1891)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 16 » Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
• June 2 » The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after.
• July 25 » The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
• July 27 » The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
• August 23 » Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
• October 19 » In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.

The temperature on January 27, 1866 was about 2.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.