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• Albertus Laurentius Ruiter, Heeten (Raalte) († 1901)
• Aagtje van den Houten, Goedereede, Gemeente Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Regina Plaat, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Meininger, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Alijda SPRONK, Beesd († 1940)
• Aaltien (Aaltje) Trip, Exloërveen Borger-Odoorn Drenthe Nederland
• Andries Bus, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Henriette Elisabeth Susanne Knappert, Schiedam († 1961)
• Aaltje Deurholt, Siddeburen († 1951)
• Anna Elizabeth Lack, Aubigny,Queensland,Australia († 1926)

• Barend Sjouw (2), Nieuwenhoorn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Van Heemskerck (11)
• Anna Maria Galjard (1), den haag
• Abraham Ritter (37), 's Gravenhage
• Anne Rozalia Bourguilion (91), Hontenisse
• de Jong (0), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Baukje Tietes Jouwstra (81), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Berger (0), Venlo
• Antonius Corsten (67), Someren
• Augustinus Van den Broeck (2), Lille,, Antwerpen, België

• 1856 » William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time († 1915)
• 1860 » Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist († 1936)
• 1865 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator († 1936)
• 1868 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman († 1954)
• 1869 » Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar († 1943)
• 1870 » Trần Tế Xương a Vietnamese poet and satirist († 1907)
• 1872 » William Manuel Johnson, American bassist († 1972)
• 1874 » Antanas Smetona, Lithuanian jurist and politician, President of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and from 1926 to 1940. († 1944)
• 1874 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States († 1964)
• 1877 » Frank Marshall, American chess player and author († 1944)

• 1839 » Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English lawyer and politician (b. 1758)
• 1862 » Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
• 1875 » Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (b. 1831)
• 1890 » John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b. 1844)
• 1896 » Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (b. 1846)
• 1913 » Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (b. 1869)
• 1915 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (b. 1887)
• 1916 » John J. Loud, American inventor (b. 1844)

• 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.
• January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
• March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
• July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
• October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
• 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 August 10, 1867 was about 21.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.