About the day » Thursday February 21, 1867Calender converter

• Aaltje Kruithof, Almelo, Nederland
• (2) Julius Detavernier, Waregem (W-VL) België († 1926)
• Blaauw, Kalkwijk
• Anna Dorothea Lugten (Lugter), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje de Leeuw, Den Bommel, Nederland († 1921)
• Annie Louisa Hafer, Pennsylvania († 1895)
• Abraham Jong, Gameren
• Louter, Wognum, Nederland († 1867)
• Antje Valkhoff, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1933)
• Anne L Hafer, Pennsylvania († 1895)

• Catharina de Vries (3), Maurik, Nederland
• Aurelia Moulart (57), Amsterdam
• Bernardus Johannes Derickx (30), Hall (Brummen)
• ADRIANA MAAS (72), ETTEN-LEUR
• aafje best (60), enkhuizen
• Barend Hendrik Waarhuis (58), Hattem
• Cornelia Adriana Helleman (59), Krimpen aan de Lek
• Verdugt (0), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina van Dijk (62)
• Alfred Stokes (1), Upper Caldecote, Bedfordshire, England

• 1844 » Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer († 1937)
• 1860 » Goscombe John, Welsh-English sculptor and academic († 1952)
• 1865 » John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School († 1967)
• 1867 » Otto Hermann Kahn, German banker and philanthropist († 1934)
• 1875 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever († 1997)
• 1878 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader († 1973)
• 1881 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer († 1945)
• 1885 » Sacha Guitry, Russian-French actor, director, and playwright († 1957)
• 1887 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of War († 1945)
• 1888 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright († 1965)

• 1821 » Georg Friedrich von Martens, German jurist and diplomat (b. 1756)
• 1824 » Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (b. 1781)
• 1829 » Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen and freedom fighter (b. 1778)
• 1846 » Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800)
• 1862 » Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)
• 1888 » William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804)
• 1891 » James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
• 1919 » Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)

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.
• March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• 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 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• 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 February 21, 1867 was about 7.4 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.