About the day » Thursday May 16, 1867Calender converter

• Anna Helena Koop, Haar, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Aagje Kempenaar, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Aloisius Tommeleyn, Torhout
• Anna Elisabeth De Meyer, Tremelo vl.Brabant
• Gerrit Donkelaar, Ede († 1953)
• Anna Catharina van Zetten, Buren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Geens
• Alexander Berg, Slagharen († 1921)
• Alexander Berg, Slagharen († 1921)
• Anna margaretha Lussenburg, Rotterdam

• Adrijanis Valkenburg (77), Vrijenban (Delft)
• Adrijanis Valkenburg (77), Vrijenban, Nederland
• Anna Gertrui Cardous (41), Maastricht (Maastricht) (Limburg)
• Abraham van der Reijden (0), Leiden
• Anne Adelaide Brinkman (28), Rotterdam
• Alexandrine Adolphine Sebastiana barones van Hardenbroek (0), Zevenaar,Gemeente Zevenaar,Gelderland,Netherlands,huis den Doelen
• Ann Carter (0), Provo, Utah County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Adelaide Brinkman (28), Rotterdam
• Adrianus van der Voort (1), Nieuwe Wetering, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Valkenburg (77), Vrijenban

• 1859 » Horace Hutchinson, English golfer († 1932)
• 1862 » Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (d.1940)
• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)

• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)

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.
• February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• 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.
• September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
• 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 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

The temperature on May 16, 1867 was about 11.6 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.