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• Adriana Philippina Brantz, Banda Neira
• Alida Mathilda Mulder, Sloten († 1955)
• Adriana Saarloos, nieuwenhoorn (zuid holland) († 1868)
• Aaltien Prins, Meppel, Gemeente Meppel, Provincie Drenthe, Nederland († 1946)
• Aleth de Cléron d'Haussonville († 1946)
• aaltje VERHULP, zuid beijerland
• Adrianus Kouwenberg, Leiden († 1930)
• Almira Van Sickle († 1867)
• Andries Hendrik Botha
• Kaiser, Leeuwarden († 1867)

• Abraham de ROO (28), Oosterland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Allegonda Vogels (77), Arcen,lb, Nederland
• Antje Homan (32), Berkhout
• Abraham de Roo (28), Oosterland
• Albert Brands (2), Den Helder
• Anthoni Frishart (72), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arentje Vaandering (0), Velsen
• Arend van der Meijden (17), Op Zee
• Kaiser (0), Leeuwarden
• Antonius Hol, Oijen en Teeffelen

• 1857 » Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor († 1899)
• 1863 » Mirko Breyer, Croatian writer, bibliographer, antiquarian, and one of the notable alleged and false victims of the Stara Gradiška concentration camp († 1946)
• 1865 » Neltje Blanchan, American historian and author († 1918)
• 1869 » John Heisman, American football player and coach († 1936)
• 1870 » Francis Kelley, Canadian-American bishop († 1948)
• 1873 » William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer († 1975)
• 1874 » Charles Kilpatrick, American runner and educator († 1921)
• 1875 » Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist and academic († 1946)
• 1876 » Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, Reich Ministry of Justice († 1970)
• 1880 » Dominikus Böhm, German architect († 1955)

• 1867 » Franz Bopp, German linguist and academic (b. 1791)
• 1869 » Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799)
• 1872 » Théophile Gautier, French journalist, author, and poet (b. 1811)
• 1885 » Charles S. West, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State of Texas (b. 1829)
• 1893 » Alexander of Battenberg (b. 1857)
• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
• June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
• July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.

The temperature on October 23, 1867 was about 16.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%.