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• Antje Sikkes Lafleur, Wonseradeel, Fr, Nederland († 1875)
• Adriana Elisabeth Voermans, Ginneken en Bavel († 1943)
• Albertus Anthonius van Weel, Wijk bij Duurstede († 1946)
• Adam ADAMS, Kropswolde, GR. NL († 1938)
• Aleida Gardina Enzerink, Steenderen († 1868)
• Adriana Peek, Hagestein († 1888)
• Albert Eshuis, Hoogeveen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1904)
• Aloysius Cornelis Antonius Kemper, den Haag († 1871)
• Antje Reitsma, Achtkarspelen, Provincie Friesland († 1937)
• Angelica Maria de Nijs, Stekene, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• ANNA MARIA GOOSENAERTS, Brasschaat
• Anna Wilhelmina Sonneveld (39), Hof van Delft
• bastiaan van der meide (meijde) (54), middelharnis (goeree overflakkee)
• Annechien Gerbens Beijert (82), Klienemeer, Nederland
• Antje Smit (94), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Aartje Johanna van Eck (0), Tiel
• Annegien Gerbens (Anniggien) Kies (Beijert, Beijaard, Beyert, Beirt) (82), Kleinemeer, Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland
• ADRIANUS ELST (74), Zundert, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Deckx (78), Dessel,Antwerpen,Belgie
• Strikkers (77), Waalwijk

• 1862 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist († 1900)
• 1863 » Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France († 1933)
• 1866 » John Beresford, Irish polo player († 1944)
• 1866 » Traian Demetrescu, Romanian poet and author († 1896)
• 1867 » Antti Aarne, Finnish author and academic († 1925)
• 1867 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland († 1935)
• 1868 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1869 » Ellis Parker Butler, American author and poet († 1937)
• 1870 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator († 1949)
• 1872 » Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player († 1906)

• 1819 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)

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. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
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.
• 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.
• August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
• September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• 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 December 5, 1867 was about -4.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.