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• Anna Cornelia van Cuijk, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• alphonse DUFRANE, Wasmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Aaltje Lugtmeijer, Steenwijkerwold († 1868)
• Adrianus Berends van der Linde, Noordwolde († 1868)
• VOLLENGA, Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Aaltje Jans van der Meulen, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Boelee († 1866)
• Alfred Elwyn Strode, East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
• Agatha Wallaart, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Adrianus van der Linde, Noordwolde, Friesland, Nederland († 1868)

• Adriana Fitters (8), Nieuwkuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Adrianusd Van Der KRAAN (68), 's-Gravendeel
• Aaltje van Gameren (79), Waardenburg, Neerijnen
• Aaltje van der Kraan (68), 's-Gravendeel
• Adriana Vermeule (0), 's-Heer Arendskerke
• Adriaan van den Boogaard (0), Sint Oedenrode
• Alexander Hamilton Boykin, I (50), Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
• Andries Rendensz Vermeer (71), Harderwijk (Gld) Nederland
• Aaltje van Kreuningen (73), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Adriana Vermeule (0), s-Heer Arendskerke, Nederland

• 1839 » Josephine Cochrane, American inventor († 1913)
• 1841 » Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist († 1935)
• 1848 » LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster († 1917)
• 1856 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army († 1929)
• 1856 » Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic († 1937)
• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1892 » Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author († 1979)

• 1819 » Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1739)
• 1844 » Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1869 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 » Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 » Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 » Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
• 1887 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 » John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)

• 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 10 » The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
• June 24 » Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
• July 20 » Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
• July 27 » The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
• July 30 » Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
• September 22 » The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.

The temperature on March 8, 1866 was about 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.