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• Anna Catharina Venema, Leeuwarden († 1868)
• Adrianus Cornelis Batavus Engel, Nijmegen († 1871)
• Andries van Wijngaarden, Zwammerdam († 1867)
• Adelaide FISHBURN, Wortley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England († 1933)
• Adriaantje van Ielen, Charlois († 1945)
• Aaldert van Wijk, Heukelum West Betuwe (GL)
• Adriaantje van IELEN, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Anna van der Kroft, Voorschoten († 1936)
• Anna Maria Adriaans, Helmond († 1919)
• Aaltje Dieleman, Zaamslag († 1917)

• Alberdina Dijkerman (41), Verwolde (Laren Gld.)
• Albert Harms Hummel, Zevenhuizen
• Adrianus Krijnen (0), Baarle-Nassau, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Beusekom (0), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Romsom (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida den Haan (1), Rijnsburg
• Alberdina Dijkerman (41), Verwolde, Laren, Lochem, Nederland
• Durandus Kornelius Mensinga (66), Midwolda (Oostwold)
• Albert Klaassens Amerika (78), Martenshoek, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna van 't Hoff (0), Rotterdam

• 1851 » Arthur Evans, English archaeologist and academic († 1941)
• 1851 » John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria († 1916)
• 1857 » Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist († 1911)
• 1867 » Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor († 1945)
• 1876 » Alexandros Papanastasiou, Greek sociologist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1936)
• 1882 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer († 1961)
• 1885 » Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1977)
• 1885 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss († 1948)
• 1890 » Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter († 1973)
• 1892 » Richard Aldington, English author and poet († 1962)

• 1820 » Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (b. 1816)
• 1822 » Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (b. 1792)
• 1850 » Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
• 1859 » Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)
• 1873 » Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)
• 1887 » Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1905 » Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1913 » Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)
• 1917 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)

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.
• March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
• December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 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 July 8, 1867 was about 15.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.