About the day » Thursday May 2, 1867Calender converter

• Aartje Visser, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1920)
• Adrianus Veldhuis, Varsen
• Adrianus Vermeulen, Tilburg
• Albertus van Elst, Driebergen,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1867)
• Albertus Abraham de Vaal, Beesd (Geldermalsen) († 1945)
• Alexander David Bent, Cobbler's Hall, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica
• Adriaan van Steenbergen, Leiden (Zuid-Holland) († 1938)
• Aldert Spijker, Midwolda († 1874)
• Anna Maria ten Brink, Eemnes 13
• Aletta Johanna Cool, Schiedam, Holland († 1904)

• Anink Franciscus Bernardus (52)
• Andries Hollemans (25), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend IJmker (14), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Andries Hollemans (25), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan van den Heuvel (26), Utrecht
• August Heinrich BODMER (22)
• Cornelia van Eck (0), Utrecht
• Angelica GIELIS (45), Tongerlo, 2260, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Cornelia Klok (0), Katwijk
• August Friedrich Dullweber (62)

• 1859 » Jerome K. Jerome, English author and playwright († 1927)
• 1860 » John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, physician, and academic († 1936)
• 1860 » Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian Zionist philosopher, journalist and author († 1904)
• 1865 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright († 1909)
• 1867 » Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster († 1930)
• 1873 » Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator († 1944)
• 1879 » James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and politician, 49th United States Secretary of State († 1972)
• 1880 » Bill Horr, American football player, discus thrower, and coach († 1955)
• 1882 » Isabel González, Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship († 1971)
• 1885 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist († 1966)

• 1810 » Henry Jerome de Salis, English priest (b. 1740)
• 1819 » Mary Moser, English painter and academic (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (b. 1810)
• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)

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 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 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
• June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
• October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• 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 May 2, 1867 was about 10.4 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.