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• * Nicolaes van Thiel, Beek en Donk († 1939)
• Adrianus van Delft, Elshout († 1939)
• Aage van der Heide, Opende, Grootegast, Groningen, Netherlands († 1935)
• alfred MOTTE, Wasmes (Belgium)
• Adam Leonard Wewer, Deventer, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1949)
• Anna Hendricks, Germany († 1938)
• Aaltje Heuving, Wildervank († 1955)
• Adam Leonard Wewer, Deventer
• Adrianus Nagtegaal, Nieuwer-Amstel
• Agatha Caenen, Veldwezelt, Lanaken (B)

• Abraham Johannes German (43), Groede
• Arie Johannis van Assen (0), Vianen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Jan Klavers (16), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anthony Jacobus Boogaard (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Mans (0), Vaals
• Antje Bakker (27), Kolhorn
• Aaltje Kluessien (19), Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Van Damme (71), Sint-Niklaas,, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• (w) Benfer (0), Rückershausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Berend Jan Verdriet (1), elsen

• 1851 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record († 1929)
• 1854 » George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria († 1937)
• 1856 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter († 1910)
• 1860 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1917)
• 1875 » Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower († 1953)
• 1877 » Pat Leahy, Irish-American jumper († 1927)
• 1879 » Hans Meerwein, German chemist († 1965)
• 1882 » Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1883 » Faisal I of Iraq († 1933)
• 1886 » Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded the Galatasaray Sports Club († 1951)

• 1812 » Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (b. 1732)
• 1834 » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (b. 1757)
• 1841 » Joseph Blanco White, Spanish poet and theologian (b. 1775)
• 1864 » John Clare, English poet (b. 1793)
• 1873 » George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (b. 1814)
• 1880 » Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist (b. 1814)
• 1896 » Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1909 » Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (b. 1859)
• 1917 » Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (b. 1850)
• 1917 » Valentine Fleming, Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1887)

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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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).
• November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

The temperature on May 20, 1867 was about 12.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.