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• Ada Owen Dobson, Yackandandah Vic, Australië
• Anna Maria Koers, Rühlertwist, Dld († 1949)
• ten Kleij, Noord / Hoogeveen
• Adrianus Kulk, Scheveningen {ZH} († 1939)
• ? ?
• Aaltje van Huis, Warfhuizen, gem. Leens, Groningen, Nederland († 1930)
• (l.l.) Grootenboer, Dordrecht († 1868)
• († 1920)
• van der Aarde, Barnsingerhorn, Gemeente Hollandse Kroon, Noord-Holland, NEDERLAND († 1868)
• Anna Helena Sturre, Rütenbrock, Haren, Niedersachsen, Duitsland

• Aaltje Zwiers (40), Noord / Hoogeveen
• "Leonardus" Leendert Leendert (55), Hedikhuizen, NL
• Anne Marie MUNCK (70), Grentzingen (68960, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Albert Richard Terhune (73), Lodi, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Anna van der Klok (44), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Koks (61), Gilze en Rijen, Nederland
• Adriana van Heijst (43), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aletta Dirks van Nes (40), unbekannt
• Adrianus Verweij (48), Utrecht
• --- Berkhout (0), Delft

• 1845 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1936)
• 1847 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph († 1931)
• 1855 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)

• 1829 » Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)
• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 16 » The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
• May 26 » The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal by one vote.
• July 9 » The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
• November 4 » Camagüey, Cuba, revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War.
• December 11 » Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay.

The temperature on February 11, 1868 was about 8.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.