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• Aagtje Quist, Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 1937)
• Anna Wilhelmina Maria Bosch, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1914)
• Adriana Roosen, Moergestel, Nederland († 1947)
• Jacobus Francios Carel Juliaan Hondius, Middelburg
• * Christina van Lith, Alem, Maren en Kessel († 1941)
• Anna Maria Feij, Sint-Pieter, Maastricht († 1965)
• Anna Maria Gertruda Feij, Sint-Pieter, Provincie Limburg, Nederland
• Alardus van LETH, Wamel (tot 1985), West Maas en Waal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1940)
• Adrianus Martinus van Eijck, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1883)
• Aaltje Termeer, Avezaath (Gem. Zoelen) (GL)

• Aaldert van Roekel (40), Wageningen, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida de Goede (30), Oegstgeest
• Berend Dirks Huizinga (79), Kollum
• Aart Tanis (34), Haarlemmermeer
• Adriana de Roon (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonius Wiero Boere (0), Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Miltenburg (31), Vianen, Nederland
• Albertus van Daal (85), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arij Huijzer (60), Sliedrecht
• Amand Maximilien Serruys (77), Menin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Frankrijk

• 1854 » Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of War († 1934)
• 1857 » Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic († 1932)
• 1866 » Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist († 1912)
• 1868 » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic († 1918)
• 1877 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman († 1943)
• 1878 » Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player († 1963)
• 1878 » Grace Abbott, American social worker († 1939)
• 1886 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant († 1967)
• 1887 » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal († 1976)
• 1891 » Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director († 1949)

• 1812 » John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (b. 1738/1739)
• 1818 » Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
• 1835 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (b. 1758)
• 1865 » James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
• 1891 » José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823)
• 1897 » George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Arie
13. Adrianus
14. Hendrikus
15. Klaas
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Grietje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Antje
14. Neeltje
15. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• 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.
• May 1 » The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• June 7 » One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
• 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 28 » At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
• July 30 » Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
• 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 November 17, 1866 was about 5.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.