About the day » Friday May 31, 1867Calender converter

• Alida Duyndam, Monster
• Alfred Wilhelm Anton Häfeli, Soerabaja († 1894)
• Alphonsius Bollaert († 1868)
• Albert Huizing, Hijkersmilde (Gem.Smilde) († 1929)
• Alida Wilhelmina Bouwhuysen BOUWHUIZEN, Idaaraderadeel (Frl) († 1944)
• Annigje Jans Klaren, AEngwirden
• Antje Bakker, Berkhout
• Alida Duijndam († 1944)
• Anna Margaretha Merten, Till, Kleve, Rhein, Preußen, Deutschland
• Aijolt Ekkes, Koog aan de Zaan (NL) († 1938)

• Anna Gerdina Antonet Biemans (2), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Wetzer (49), 's Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje den Broeder (0), Sint Anthoniepolder, Nederland
• Annigje Benschop (0), Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltjen Masselink (80), Arnhem
• Adrianus Stekelenburg (1), Zuilen
• (0), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Antoine Michel Naubauer (55), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• de Weert (0), Kolham, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Bosman (3), Abcoude-Proosdij, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1852 » Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic († 1919)
• 1852 » Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist, invented the Petri dish († 1921)
• 1857 » Pope Pius XI († 1939)
• 1858 » Graham Wallas, English socialist, social psychologist, and educationalist († 1932)
• 1860 » Walter Sickert, English painter († 1942)
• 1863 » Francis Younghusband, Indian-English captain and explorer († 1942)
• 1866 » John Ringling, American entrepreneur; one of the founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus († 1936)
• 1875 » Rosa May Billinghurst, British suffragette and women's rights activist (d.1953)
• 1879 » Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano († 1952)
• 1882 » Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War († 1956)

• 1831 » Samuel Bentham, English architect and engineer (b. 1757)
• 1832 » Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811)
• 1837 » Joseph Grimaldi, English actor, comedian and dancer, (b. 1779)
• 1846 » Philip Marheineke, German pastor and philosopher (b. 1780)
• 1847 » Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister and economist (b. 1780)
• 1848 » Eugénie de Guérin, French author (b. 1805)
• 1899 » Stefanos Koumanoudis, Greek archaeologist, teacher and writer (b. 1818)
• 1908 » Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)
• 1909 » Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Elizabeth Blackwell, English-American physician and educator (b. 1821)

• 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.
• March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
• May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• 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 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
• 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 31, 1867 was about 21.8 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.