About the day » Friday November 8, 1867Calender converter

• alice LANDA, Quaregnon (Belgium) Hainaut
• Adrianus Tanis, Zijpe
• Alida Jacoba Kompier, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Leliveld, Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana de Bruijn, Noordeloos, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Abraham Samuel Auerbach, Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Aaltje Margaretha van Rijswijk, Hoge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1928)
• Abraham van Beek, Zeist, Nederland († 1930)
• Anna Elisabeth Klinkhamer, Vinkenveen († 1868)
• Alberta Hubert, Hasselt († 1868)

• Adriana Klaasse Pronk (77), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hindriks Roek (80)
• Aafje Huijsman (30), Zaandijk
• Anna Maria Ruwiel (0), Loenersloot, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ambrose Edward Bernard Vanstaen (70), Klerken
• Adriana Slingerland (75), Woubrugge
• albertine LEGAT (74), Wasmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Anna Maria Reintjes (0), Rheden
• Anna Elisabeth Van Waenroy
• ZIJLSTRA, Wymbritseradeel

• 1854 » Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic († 1919)
• 1855 » Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1939)
• 1866 » Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company († 1941)
• 1868 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1878 » Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist († 1951)
• 1881 » Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1883 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet († 1953)
• 1883 » Charles Demuth, American painter († 1935)
• 1884 » Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1922)
• 1885 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter († 1959)

• 1817 » Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator (b. 1754)
• 1828 » Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator and author (b.1753)
• 1830 » Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
• 1873 » Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796)
• 1887 » Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker player (b. 1851)
• 1890 » César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (b. 1828)
• 1901 » James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
• 1905 » Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
• 1917 » Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

The temperature on November 8, 1867 was about 11.5 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.