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• Albert Johann Kuhlmann, Leyden Township
• Degenaar, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Joannes Buster, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1870)
• Anabella Anita Fredriksz, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Adriana van Leeuwen, Schiedam († 1938)
• (w) Becker, Sassenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1867)
• Adriana Maria Derogee, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1868)
• Adriana van Eck, Middelharnis, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands († 1946)
• Adriaan Opheij, Erp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Adeleida Hooymann, Grieth, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland

• Adriana Maria den Engelse (1), Klundert (N.B.)
• Anna Maria De Rooij (78), Tilburg
• Catharina van der Manden, Maarsseveen
• Antje Jans de Jager (38), Eestrum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Catharina Lapere (42), s Heerenhoek
• Coba van den Akker (64), Oud-Beijerland
• Antje Tuiten (0), Opsterland
• Constantin Joseph de STOOP (63), Voormezele, 33027, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Bruintje Salomon Cohen (36), Holwierde
• Catharina Maria Verbruggen (1), Ledeacker

• 1852 » John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes († 1943)
• 1857 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist († 1926)
• 1861 » Ferdinand I of Bulgaria († 1948)
• 1861 » Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian soldier and politician († 1939)
• 1866 » Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company († 1930)
• 1877 » Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia († 1959)
• 1877 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator († 1968)
• 1879 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer († 1941)
• 1880 » Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer († 1972)
• 1881 » Janus Djurhuus, Faroese poet († 1948)

• 1813 » Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (b. 1746)
• 1815 » Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1737)
• 1821 » Joseph de Maistre, French lawyer and diplomat (b. 1753)
• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)

• 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.
• February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• 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.
• October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
• 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 26, 1867 was about 6.9 °C. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.