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• Hotze Folkertsma, Wonseradeel († 1930)
• Adriana Pieternella Middelburg, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1867)
• Adrianus Leonardus van der Voort, Monster
• Andries Jelles Brinksma, St Nicolaasga, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland († 1950)
• Adriana Cornelia Tuijnman, Nieuwerkerk Schouwen-Duiveland Zeeland Nederland († 1924)
• Adolf Joseph De Bruyne, Merelbeke
• Adriaan Theune, Serooskerke, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Andries Zorn, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1901)
• Adriana Petronella Middelburg, 's-Gravenzande († 1867)
• Aleta (Alberta) Spivey, Virginia († 1891)

• Arie Cornelisz Klop (19), Strijen, zh.nld
• Adriana Heijdens (73), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antien Molles van den Bosch (73), Steenwijk
• Abraham Hollebeek (68), Benschop
• Adriaan Pasterkamp (0), Hoorn, Gemeente Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Meijer (74), Akkers, Muntendam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aaltjen Willems Bonninkhorst (61), Exel
• Kon (0), Lexmond
• Adrianus Jacobus van Wermeskerken (19), Tiel
• Adrianus Rosenbrand (0), 's-Gravenmoer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1839 » Josephine Cochrane, American inventor († 1913)
• 1841 » Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist († 1935)
• 1848 » LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster († 1917)
• 1856 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army († 1929)
• 1856 » Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic († 1937)
• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1892 » Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author († 1979)

• 1819 » Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1739)
• 1844 » Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1869 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 » Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 » Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 » Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
• 1887 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 » John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (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.
• March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
• April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
• 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.
• 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 March 8, 1867 was about 3.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.