About the day » Sunday January 20, 1867Calender converter

• ADRIANUS JOSEPHUS DE SMIT, Hulst, Nederland
• Amandus Reyns, Nieuwkerken-Waas
• Aart Wittingen, Doornspijk(Elburg) († 1920)
• Anna Elizabeth Specht, Franklin, Iowa, United States († 1941)
• Aalbertus Johannes Smink, Nijkerk († 1933)
• Anna Margaretha Veen, Adorf, Twist
• Aaltje Veltmeier, Kralingen (Rotterdam) († 1954)
• Aart Verkaik, Wilnis († 1867)
• Ana Junklaus, Teresópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Anna Catharina Niessen, Beesel

• Aagtje Wils (65), Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Wils (65), Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annegien Pieters Uilhoorn (66), Schildwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adeleijda Alijdis Geelen (79), Margraten, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Jürgens (3), Sustrum, Emsland
• Anna Maria Lotz (38), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Aagtje Willemsd WILS (64), Ouddorp
• Anna Vermaat (0), Barendrecht
• Adrianus Groos (61), Best
• Adrianus Groos (61), Best 3

• 1855 » Ernest Chausson, French composer († 1899)
• 1856 » Harriot Stanton Blatch, U.S. suffragist and organizer († 1940)
• 1865 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress († 1944)
• 1870 » Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer († 1894)
• 1873 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1874 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach († 1938)
• 1876 » Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer († 1957)
• 1878 » Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor († 1968)
• 1879 » Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator († 1968)
• 1880 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware († 1962)

• 1837 » John Soane, English architect, designed the Bank of England (b. 1753)
• 1841 » Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish explorer (b. 1780)
• 1841 » Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
• 1848 » Christian VIII, Danish king (b. 1786)
• 1850 » Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1779)
• 1852 » Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 » Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)

• 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 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
• February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
• March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).

The temperature on January 20, 1867 was about -2.7 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.