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• Adriana de Rooij, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1931)
• Anna Cornelia Weymans, Rijkevorsel, België
• Adriana van Roosmalen, Nootdorp († 1955)
• Alida Plomp, Dubbeldam († 1956)
• Aaltje Haak, Erm, Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1868)
• Albert APPERLO, Zwartsluis, Zwartewaterland, Overijssel, Nederland († 1869)
• Adrianus Hanssen, Weert, Provincie Limburg, Nederland († 1937)
• Adriana Cornelia STOKMAN, Goes († 1932)
• adriana SCHIPPERS, puttershoek
• Adrianus de Ruijter, 's-Gravendeel, Nederland

• Anna Leendertsdr Bree (71), Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Leenderts Bree (71), Overschie (71jr)
• Anna Maria Willems (77), Venray, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anje Boukema (62), 't Zandt, Zeerijp, Groningen, Nederland
• Anje Klaassens Boukema (62), 't Zandt (gem. Eemsdelta)
• ANNA BREE (71), OVERSCHIE
• Abraham Sentse den Braber (70), Sint Philipsland
• Anna Pellen (61), Ottersum
• Anna Leendertsdr de Bree (71), Overschie
• Albert Vlooswijk, Jutphaas, Utrecht, Netherlands

• 1856 » J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1860 » Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer († 1908)
• 1861 » Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic († 1924)
• 1863 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria († 1914)
• 1867 » Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder († 1941)
• 1869 » Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator († 1965)
• 1870 » Saki, British short story writer († 1916)
• 1873 » Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines († 1957)
• 1875 » Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower († 1941)
• 1878 » Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union († 1953)

• 1829 » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744)
• 1843 » Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
• 1848 » Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)

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.
• March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
• 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.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
• 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 18, 1867 was about 2.0 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.