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• Adriaan Teuling
• Anje Doornbos, Holwierde (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Adriaan BOOGAARD, Wijk aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Aaltje IJzerman, Gemeente Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agnes Lambertina Maria Berger, Roermond († 1869)
• Anna Catharina Jacobs, Schinveld,, Limburg, Nederland
• Barteld Bos, Veendam († 1887)
• Agatha de Wit, Wijk a/Zee en Duin († 1921)
• Anje (Anna) Doornbos, Holwierde, Bierum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1949)
• Albert Wassink, Zutphen († 1880)

• Aaron Mendenhall (91), Westland, Morgan County, Ohio
• Anna Catharina Theunissen (25), Schinveld
• Antonie Scheffer (85), Renkum
• Albert Johannes BIJZIT (40), Drachten, Smallingerland, Fryslân, Nederland
• 2. Reinier Arnoldus van de Garde der Garden (52), Haaften, Nederland
• Bartel Beekman (75), Zierikzee
• Abram Lucuas Lantman (Landman) (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie Reijers (0), Harderwijk
• Anna Catharina Daemen (69), Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• Antoni Scheffer (85), Renkum, Gemeente Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1853 » Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia († 1920)
• 1859 » Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator († 1935)
• 1860 » Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary († 1927)
• 1864 » Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer († 1943)
• 1865 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1950)
• 1867 » Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí († 1956)
• 1871 » Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (d.1929)
• 1876 » Hippolyte Aucouturier, French cyclist († 1944)
• 1878 » Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, Spanish politician and 17th Duke of Alba († 1953)
• 1880 » Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Mexican artist and art collector († 1977)

• 1806 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
• 1836 » Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
• 1837 » Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
• 1849 » Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
• 1868 » Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)
• 1887 » Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist and chemist (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1828)
• 1893 » Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general and politician, 3rd President of France (b. 1808)
• 1910 » Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (b. 1819)
• 1918 » Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)

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.
• 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.
• 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 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
• November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

The temperature on October 17, 1867 was about 13.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.