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• Aaltje Hoogschagen, Den Helder († 1950)
• Anna Gertruid DEGUELLE, Vaals, Limburg, Nederland
• Maria Johanna Bol, Velsen († 1949)
• Adrianus Johannes Brunt, Kockengen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1920)
• Adriana Graven, Alphen
• Alida Veldhuizen, De Bilt, Nederland († 1924)
• Anna Elizabeth Huggett, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States († 1946)
• Anna Groelfsema, Stedum, Loppersum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Agatha Amalia Schulte, Steinfurt (NRW)-Mettingen († 1869)
• Anna Huizerd, Puttershoek,Zuid Holland,Nederland

• Doede Geerts Bakker (70), Grootegast, NL-GR
• Anthonie van Buuren (59), Odijk
• Doede Geerts Bakker (70), Gr. Stroobos
• Catharina Elizabeth van Wermeskerken (0), Tiel
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• Albertjen Gunst (25), Havelte
• Albert Schipper (21), Onna, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Saenen (0), Zichem 3770(Belgie)
• Cornelis Josephus Maria de Swart (0), Raamsdomkveer
• Anna Maria Ooms (59), Dessel, België

• 1852 » William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1916)
• 1854 » Patrick Geddes, Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist († 1932)
• 1869 » Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher († 1948)
• 1871 » Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1871 » Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscaper and author († 1959)
• 1873 » Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager († 1963)
• 1873 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician († 1924)
• 1875 » Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist († 1935)
• 1879 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator († 1955)
• 1882 » Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel († 1945)

• 1803 » Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
• 1804 » Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
• 1850 » Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
• 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.
• October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
• December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

The temperature on October 2, 1867 was about 12.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.