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• Agnes Patterson, Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States († 1940)
• Aart Sels, Alblasserdam
• Antonius Stephanus de Ridder, Bunnik († 1871)
• Aalt Kuijt, Zwartebroek († 1904)
• Antje van Straten, Den Helder († 1945)
• Anthonie van Gessel, Avezaath († 1957)
• Anna Maria van Bren van Heijst, Vlaardingen († 1867)
• Aart Sels, Alblasserdam, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands († 1891)
• Adriana Maria van der Meijden, Vlaardingen
• Annigina Tattje, Winschoten († 1938)

• Arie Rits (77), varik
• Adrianus Gozen van Trigt (78), Oud-Beijerland
• Berend Jan Geerdink (31), Wierden, Wierden, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Anne Taekes Bijlsma (55), Grouw
• Antonius WILLEMS (0), Neerpelt,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgie
• Anne Cathérine Elisabeth Anteunis (48), Sint-Truiden, België
• Arnoldus Coenraad van der Stroom (64), Zutphen
• Adrianus Goosensz Van TRIGT (79), Oud-Beijerland
• Abraham Snow (55), Budock, Cornwall, England
• Aaltje de Krieger (74), Dremt

• 1852 » Cap Anson, American baseball player and manager († 1922)
• 1863 » Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician and theorist († 1940)
• 1865 » Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus († 1939)
• 1866 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic († 1927)
• 1875 » Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War († 1941)
• 1877 » Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat († 1949)
• 1878 » Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Greek tennis player († 1942)
• 1878 » Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman († 1961)
• 1879 » Henri Tauzin, French hurdler († 1918)
• 1882 » Artur Schnabel, Jewish-Polish pianist and composer († 1951)

• 1799 » Richard Jupp, English surveyor and architect (b. 1728)
• 1840 » Hannah Webster Foster, American journalist and author (b. 1758)
• 1843 » Samuel Morey, American engineer (b. 1762)
• 1882 » George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810)
• 1888 » E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
• May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
• September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
• December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

The temperature on April 17, 1867 was about 11.1 °C. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.