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• Anna Maria Melinda Sommer, Taos, Cole, Missouri, Amerika († 1880)
• Anneke Kentie, Woudrichem, Gemeente Altena, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1874)
• HOUWING, Nieuw-Dordrecht (Emmen), Drenthe, Nederland († 1867)
• Anna Katharina Jellema, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1944)
• Anna Petronella OVERTOOM, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Poort, spijk († 1946)
• Adriana Marinissen ( Lourense), Sint-Laurens,ZL
• Anna Maria van Eck, Til Moyland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Albert Kwintenberg, Holten († 1895)
• Anna Helena Engels, Bocholt (Be), Limburg, België

• Aart Brand (22), Nieuwenhoorn, Nederland
• Abraham Jansz Nottelman (64), Petten
• Abraham Dees (24), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Hartmans (23), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allen DENNIS Jr. ** (44), McKee, Adams, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Annetta Griffioen (22), Maarsseveen
• Alphons Corneel Bockstaele (0), Merelbeke
• Adolf Wunderlich (0), Herbertshausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• HOUWING (0), Nieuw-Dordrecht (Emmen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Dam (61), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1865 » Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, educator, and diplomat, founded the Askenazy school († 1935)
• 1867 » Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator († 1915)
• 1868 » Charles Harvey Bollman, American naturalist († 1889)
• 1868 » Emanuel Lasker, German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher († 1941)
• 1869 » Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet, playwright, and politician († 1952)
• 1872 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player († 1927)
• 1875 » Émile Wegelin, French rower († 1962)
• 1877 » Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter and critic († 1979)
• 1879 » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet († 1941)
• 1879 » Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin († 1952)

• 1844 » Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (b. 1803)
• 1863 » William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811)
• 1865 » Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)
• 1867 » José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)
• 1868 » Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
• 1872 » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)
• 1873 » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
• 1879 » Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)
• 1889 » Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch pastor and poet (b. 1819)
• 1893 » B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (b. 1807)

• 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.
• January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
• October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

The temperature on December 24, 1867 was about -0.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.