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• Anna Cornelia Hoefnagel, Schoonhoven,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1893)
• Aaltje van Buiten, Oldemarkt († 1869)
• Anna de Bourbon-Busset, Château Lignières, Lignières-Sonneville, Poitou-Charente († 1958)
• Alline SCHIETECATTE, Gilly,6000,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Angele Aline Marie LEMAHIEU, Quesnoy-sur-Deûle,59890,Nord,Hauts-de-France,France († 1941)
• Agatha Susanna Bruin, Oude Niedorp († 1930)
• Adrianus van der Ree, Delft
• Anna Maria van der Wijst, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1866)
• Agatha Maria Wolbers, Doesburg,Gelderland,Niederlande († 1948)
• Adrianus Verbree, Benschop, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1947)

• Anna Stik (61), Nieuwer Amstel, Nederland
• Barents (Barends) (Beerends)
• Anna Catharina VAN KEER (86), Puurs,2870,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Amandus Vancoillie (77), Wingene, Flandre Occidentale, Belgium
• Aaltje den Hartogh (52), Ravenswaaij
• "Maria Cornelia" Mertens (62), Rijkevorsel, Vlaams Gewest, België
• Amélie Joseph DEBRUNE, Lille, France
• Blokzijl (0), Noord (Hoogeveen)
• Antonij Westerkamp (47), Dalfsen
• Aafje den Hartogh (53), Ravenswaaij (Maurik) (GL)

• 1846 » Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France († 1904)
• 1847 » Deacon White, American baseball player and manager († 1939)
• 1859 » Georges Seurat, French painter († 1891)
• 1860 » Charles Studd, England cricketer and missionary († 1931)
• 1863 » Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus († 1926)
• 1866 » Harry Burleigh, American singer-songwriter († 1949)
• 1876 » Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism († 1935)
• 1884 » Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand soldier, lawyer, and judge († 1953)
• 1884 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet and author († 1958)
• 1885 » George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)

• 1814 » Marquis de Sade, French philosopher, author, and politician (b. 1740)
• 1844 » Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1792)
• 1859 » John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1881 » Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
• 1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
• 1888 » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (b. 1875)
• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)

• 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.
• April 4 » Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.
• April 6 » The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
• April 8 » Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.
• 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.
• 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).

The temperature on December 2, 1866 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.