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• Peters, Ottersum, Nederland († 1867)
• Albertus van Stiphout, Geldrop († 1921)
• Aaltje Veldhuizen, Hoevelaken († 1950)
• Aafje Stor, Assendelft († 1870)
• Anna Ruyg
• Aalbert B. (Albert) de Haan, Pella, Marion County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1946)
• Albert Cadee, Veendam (Groningen) († 1949)
• anna ANDEWEG, hekelingen († 1919)
• Adriaan de Blaaij, Nisse
• Anna Catharina VAN WIJLICK, Kessel, Limburg, Netherlands († 1963)

• Adriana Johanna Dieleman (70), Zaamslag, Zl
• Adriana Nugteren (37), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Bijnen (37), Tilburg
• Anthonij (Anthonie) Jacob Landman (8), Schoondijke
• Antje Harmens Menger (69), Noordwolde, Nederland
• Arij Slingerland (77), Aarlanderveen
• Arie Kuiper (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Jans Roorda (0), Hallum
• Agnes Rijnen (37), Tilburg, 4272, Noord Brabant, NL
• Agnes Rijnen (37), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1854 » Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer († 1932)
• 1856 » Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress († 1939)
• 1862 » Herbert Booth, Canadian songwriter and bandleader († 1926)
• 1865 » Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station († 1946)
• 1873 » Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube († 1961)
• 1874 » Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1938)
• 1875 » John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada († 1940)
• 1880 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic († 1918)
• 1882 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1882 » Sam Hardy, English footballer († 1966)

• 1810 » Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
• 1813 » Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
• 1850 » Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
• 1878 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)
• 1910 » William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
• 1921 » Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1921 » Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)

• 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.
• 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.
• September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
• September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
• December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

The temperature on August 26, 1867 was about 25.4 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.