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• anna margaretha hubertina konings, helden-dorp († 1928)
• Alfred Bendien, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1929)
• van dijk, Trijntje, Franekeradeel
• Aafje Brinkkemper, Monnickendam, Nederland († 1893)
• Albert Edward Charman, Findon, Sussex, England († 1942)
• Agatha van Hienen, Jutphaas († 1948)
• * Teunis Johannes van Geelen, Schoonhoven († 1918)
• Abraham Stroo, Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL († 1867)
• Anna Adaline Janknecht, Steinbild, Kluse, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Germany († 1924)
• Adelard Goyette, Quebec, Canada († 1925)

• Antonius Bergs (67), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Pietersz van der Laan (65), ,, Dubbeldam, Nederland
• Adrianus van der LAAN (65), Dubbeldam
• Catharina Gertrudis Helena Gruls (61), Maaseik
• Abraham Sundermeijer (0), Rotterdam
• Allegonda Deckers (73), Velden
• Albertus van der Linden (44), Utrecht
• Ariaantje Boots (29), Graft, Graft-de Rijp, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• arnold joseph vossen (59), helden
• Arnoldus Josephus VOSSEN (59), Helden,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)
• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)
• 1871 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia († 1939)
• 1876 » Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author and playwright († 1958)
• 1877 » Albert Bartha, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1960)

• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
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.
• January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
• March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.

The temperature on August 12, 1867 was about 26.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 48%.