About the day » Saturday December 7, 1867Calender converter

• adrianus van der MEIJDEN, spijkenisse
• Alberta Christina ten Velthuis, Hengelo-Woolde († 1955)
• Alberdina Alberts Kleine, Hoogeveen († 1943)
• Adrianus van Splunter, Sommelsdijk (gem. Goeree-Overflakkee)
• Adrianus Petrus Hersmis, Tilburg († 1941)
• Akke Ages Vellinga, Heeg († 1938)
• Adrianus Nicolaas van Houten, Noordwijkerhout
• van 't Hoog, Hardinxveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1867)
• Alfred George John Baulch, 7 John Street, Bermondsey, Surrey, England († 1937)
• Alida Gijsberta Geijsendorpher, Voorburg († 1937)

• Aleijda Verplak (1), Elst, Gelderland, Nederland
• (2) Lijsje Dekker (32), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• "Mathilde" Louise Antoinette Colaud de La Salcette (58), Grenoble, Isère, France
• Charles Eugène de Pourtalès (39), Berne, Suisse
• Baby VAN STENIS (0)
• Charles E. Cookson (20), Plymouth, Penobscot, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria VANRUSSELT (53), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Adrianus Cox (58), Brecht
• Antje Beers (55), Ransdorp
• Arij van der Kooij (31), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1860 » Joseph Cook, English-born Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia († 1947)
• 1861 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I († 1931)
• 1862 » Paul Adam, French author († 1920)
• 1863 » Felix Calonder, Swiss soldier and politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1952)
• 1863 » Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor († 1945)
• 1863 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears († 1914)
• 1869 » Frank Laver, Australian cricketer († 1919)
• 1873 » Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet († 1947)
• 1878 » Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer († 1942)
• 1879 » Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic († 1972)

• 1837 » Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (b.1814)
• 1842 » Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
• 1874 » Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815)
• 1879 » Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
• 1899 » Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• 1902 » Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
• 1906 » Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• 1913 » Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)

• 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 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
• 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.
• July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
• August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
• 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).

The temperature on December 7, 1867 was about 1.8 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.