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• Petronella Maria Cornel, Raamsdonkveer († 1868)
• Andries Boulboulle, Maastricht, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands († 1866)
• de Roo, Ferwerderadeel († 1866)
• Adriana van Helvoort, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1952)
• Adolf Jan Van Malleghem, Westrozebeke (B), België († 1922)
• Adriana Maria van Dongen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Anna Maria Fopma, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1936)
• Adriana van HELVOORT, Vlijmen († 1952)
• Adriana van de Kreeke, Wolphaartsdijk, Nederland († 1949)
• Abraham van der Hoeven, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands

• Arie HACK (81), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Josephus Schel (6)
• Anna Cornelia MARIJNISSEN ( Marinisse ) (71), Etten-Leur,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• arij TROOST (81), numansdorp
• Agnes Johannes van Rosmalen (80), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• adriana de BONDT (62), zwijndrecht
• van Schooten, Voorhout
• Antonia de Ridder (Den) (29), Klundert, Nederland
• Adriana Heidemann (8), De Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Mechtilde DRIESEN (28), Kortessem,3720,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• 1848 » Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor († 1905)
• 1850 » Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer († 1896)
• 1852 » J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic († 1919)
• 1852 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1911)
• 1856 » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist († 1927)
• 1860 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator († 1900)
• 1870 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia († 1891)
• 1871 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1883 » Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist († 1931)
• 1884 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)

• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)

• 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.
• May 16 » The United States Congress establishes the nickel.
• May 22 » Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
• 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.
• August 20 » President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
• 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 August 30, 1866 was about 16.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 27 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.