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• Adrianus Vermelis, Berkel-Enschot († 1867)
• Aletta Antonetta van Wijk, Genderen († 1956)
• Anna Maria Van den Bogaert, Antwerpen
• Alida van Egmond, Alfen
• Van Beek, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• van Gestel, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van Ballegooijen, Strijen († 1885)
• Adriana Cornelia Maria Oosthof, Schiedam († 1876)
• Albert Remmling, Barmen (arr. Düsseldorf)
• Aloysius Aerts, Meer, Antwerpen, België († 1944)

• Clara Josephina Hubertina BURGHOFF (36), Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Alexander ADRIAENSEN (70), Rijkevorsel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Oudwater (0), Oostvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Hogendoorn (1), Leiden
• Antonie Philippo (47), Haarlem
• Beerentje A. Kuiper (31), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Helena Bolmer, Wesuwe-Brook
• Alexander Adriaensen (72), Rijkevorsel, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Alexandre Charles Constantin OPHOVEN (20), Liege, Province de Liege, Walloon Region, Belgie
• Adriana van Dillen (57), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1846 » George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company († 1914)
• 1862 » Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician († 1927)
• 1866 » Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony († 1932)
• 1874 » Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts († 1950)
• 1876 » Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice († 1941)
• 1882 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer († 1937)
• 1886 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy († 1965)
• 1888 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot († 1918)
• 1891 » Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator († 1946)

• 1819 » Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
• 1829 » Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 » Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)

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.
• February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
• March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

The temperature on October 6, 1867 was about 8.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.