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• Anneke Kaldenberg, Herwijnen († 1949)
• Antje Sietzes Pool, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1871)
• Andries Geert Hoiting, Groningen († 1940)
• Anthonie Odijk, Cothen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1943)
• Alice Emily Browning, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 1937)
• Antje Pool († 1871)
• Andries Geert Hoiting, Groningen († 1940)
• Aaltje Luiting, Harderwijk († 1868)
• Albert Henry Brand Cobb, West Lulworth, Dorsetshire, England († 1957)
• Aaltje van Dalfzen, Genemuiden († 1938)

• Alardus Haitzes Loots (62), Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Wakkers (47), Schilberg (Echt)
• Anna Verhees (69), Deurne en Liessel
• Aaltje van STRATEN (67), Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Hendriksz Commijs (82), Kralingen
• Bastiaan Klapwijk (49), Maasland (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Verhagen (25), Veur
• Antje Gorter (1), Everstekoog (Texel, NH)
• Arij Commijs (82), Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Langkamp (5), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1860 » Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet († 1939)
• 1861 » Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter († 1944)
• 1861 » Georges Méliès, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1938)
• 1861 » William C. Durant, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet († 1947)
• 1862 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright († 1921)
• 1863 » Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist († 1937)
• 1864 » Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor († 1943)
• 1865 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1865 » Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer († 1957)
• 1865 » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general († 1946)

• 1830 » Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
• 1856 » Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
• 1864 » George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
• 1869 » Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)

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.
• January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
• March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• 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 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
• December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

The temperature on December 8, 1867 was about -1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.