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• Aaltje Helena Jonker, 's-Gravenhage († 1939)
• Andries van Masbergen, Rijswijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1941)
• Adriana Maria Vermolen, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1869)
• Trijntje Prosje, St Jacobiparochie
• Adriaan van 't Hof, Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Marijtha Koop, Dersum, Steinbild
• Hengstman, Wierden († 1868)
• Albert Nieuwenweg, Drouwenermond, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 1917)
• Adriaan Exalto, Zaandam († 1943)
• Petronella Maria Huberta de Bont, Raamsdonkveer († 1906)

• Anne Françoise Henriette ROUVROY (73), XHORIS, Liège, Belgique
• Albertje Bijsterbosch (57), Heerde
• Albert Harmannus Weerman (66), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Hermanus Weerman (65), Ooststellingwerf
• Albertus Johannes van RIJN (0), Utrecht
• Albertje Hommes Buringh (38), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Caspar Jan Gluijsteen (53), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Ellen (22), Denekamp, nr. 95
• Alexander Richardson (36), aged 36 years (reg'd) Coonabarabran, NSW, AU
• Annechien Woldinga (43), Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland

• 1856 » Jim McCormick, Scottish-American baseball player and manager († 1918)
• 1857 » Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general († 1918)
• 1862 » Henry George, Jr., American journalist and politician († 1916)
• 1863 » Alfred Perot, French physicist and academic († 1925)
• 1866 » Harry Staley, American baseball player († 1910)
• 1871 » Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby player and manager († 1943)
• 1875 » Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer and conductor († 1910)
• 1876 » Stephen Alencastre, American bishop and missionary († 1940)
• 1877 » Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean general and politician, 20th President of Chile († 1960)
• 1878 » Bangalore Nagarathnamma, Indian Carnatic singer and activist († 1952)

• 1850 » William E. Shannon, Irish-born American politician (b. 1821/1822)
• 1858 » Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and author (b. 1807)
• 1869 » Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1792)
• 1890 » Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1900 » Carrie Steele Logan, American philanthropist, founder of the oldest black orphanage in the United States (b. ~1829)
• 1914 » Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (b. 1887)
• 1917 » Léon Bloy, French author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1918 » Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
• 1926 » Annie Oakley, American entertainer and target shooter (b. 1860)

• 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).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• January 3 » Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• February 2 » Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
• February 24 » Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
• August 13 » The 8.5–9.0 M_w  Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.
• November 2 » Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
• December 10 » The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

The temperature on November 3, 1868 was about 11.3 °C. The air pressure was 42 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.