About the day » Friday January 4, 1867Calender converter

• Adriaan Nicolaas Verhulst, Colijnsplaat († 1867)
• Aaltje van Elk, Jutphaas († 1868)
• Adriaantje Hassing, Ekamp, Finsterwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1867)
• van der Gaag, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1867)
• Albrechta Johanna de Raadt, Hillegersberg († 1965)
• Adrien Fréderic Kempeneers, Sint-Truiden, België († 1940)
• Albert Bosma, Haulerwijk († 1943)
• Agnieszka Wiktorowska, Piotrkowice, Poznan, Poland († 1935)
• Alice Pannkuk, Forreston, Ogle County, Illinois († 1939)
• Andries Trouw, Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1889)

• Adrianus Lodder (56), Oude-Niedorp,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Andrew J Marchbanks (62)
• Andries Josephus Dominicus Baudry Boderie (0), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adolf Carl Hubert Freiherr Raitz von Frentz (69)
• Adriana Johanna de Jager (0), Zuilen
• Antonius van Doormolen (63), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Jacobus Hugo Koezijnse (0), Utrecht
• Adriana van Oudenaarde
• - Nijenbanning (0), Sleen
• Aaltje Duin (84), Hoogwoud

• 1858 » Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1946)
• 1864 » Clara Emilia Smitt, Swedish doctor and author († 1928)
• 1869 » Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player and umpire († 1960)
• 1874 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer († 1935)
• 1877 » Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet († 1943)
• 1878 » A. E. Coppard, English poet and short story writer († 1957)
• 1878 » Augustus John, Welsh painter and illustrator († 1961)
• 1881 » Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor († 1919)
• 1883 » Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic († 1961)
• 1883 » Max Eastman, American author and poet († 1969)

• 1863 » Roger Hanson, American general (b. 1827)
• 1874 » Thomas Gregson, English-Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
• 1877 » Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Anselm Feuerbach, German painter and educator (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Edward William Cooke, English painter and illustrator (b. 1811)
• 1882 » John William Draper, English-American physician, chemist, and photographer (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Antoine Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Antoine Labelle, Canadian priest (b. 1833)
• 1896 » Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop and academic (b. 1821)
• 1900 » Stanisław Mieroszewski, Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria (b. 1827)

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.
• March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
• 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 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.
• May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
• December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

The temperature on January 4, 1867 was about -0.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.