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• Adriana van Gastel, Roosendaal en Nispen (NL) († 1869)
• Aaltje Krikke, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1871)
• Adrianus van Leuken, Aarle-Rixtel
• Andries van den Bosch, Ooststellingwerf
• (m) Stöcker, Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1868)
• Alice Elizabeth Knight, Brighton, Sussex, England († 1937)
• Adrianus Bruijn de, Doorn, Utr, Nederland († 1879)
• Alice Knight, Brighton, Sussex, England († 1937)
• Adriaan de Man, Nieuw-en Sint Joosland († 1868)
• Andries Scherpenhuijzen, Nijmegen († 1944)

• Barbara Elisabeth Kaim (0), 's Gravendeel
• Anna Sibilla Theresia Schoon (4), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wauters (65), Rummen
• Adrianus Jansen (77), Oestgeest, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria Naarden (58), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Anna Sophia mundorff (0), Bergheim ( Duitsland )
• Adriana Kornelia Harrewijn (41), Delft
• Adrianus Janze (76), Oegstgeest
• Berendina Catharina van der Schuit (1), IJlst, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jansze (76), Oegstgeest

• 1855 » Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna († 1908)
• 1859 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1927)
• 1865 » Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer († 1952)
• 1869 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian-Russian poet and author († 1923)
• 1872 » Johan Pitka, Estonian admiral († 1944)
• 1876 » Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer († 1957)
• 1877 » Gabriele Münter, German painter († 1962)
• 1878 » Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress († 1961)
• 1880 » Álvaro Obregón, Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico († 1928)
• 1886 » José Abad Santos, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines († 1942)

• 1806 » Elizabeth Carter, English poet and translator (b. 1717)
• 1837 » Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (b. 1813)
• 1837 » Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1756)
• 1887 » Multatuli, Dutch-German author and civil servant (b. 1820)
• 1897 » Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
• 1915 » Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
• 1916 » Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1928 » George Howard Earle Jr., American lawyer and businessman (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Petronella
16. Elizabeth

• 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.
• April 11 » Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
• June 10 » Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
• September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
• November 3 » John Willis Menard (R-Louisiana) was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
• November 30 » A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården.
• 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 February 19, 1868 was about 6.9 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.