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• Aaltje Deuten, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands († 1906)
• Albertus Hemme, Laar, Grafschaft Bentheim, Duitsland († 1911)
• Adam Dieckman, Hollandscheveld ( Hoogeveen ) († 1928)
• "Dr". Friedrich August Schöppel, Graz, Steiermark, Österreich († 1946)
• "Johannes" Jan Jan, Groesbeek, NL († 1869)
• Aaltje Deuten, Hollandscheveld (gem. Hoogeveen) († 1906)
• Adriana Maria Petronella van Elsakker, Bergen op Zoom († 1930)
• Andreas Ignatius Maria Josephus Schaepman, Zwolle,Gemeente Zwolle,Overijssel,Netherlands († 1937)
• Aloysius van Sikkelerus, Hontenisse, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1868)
• Alphonsus Franciscus JANSEGERS, Dendermonde,9200,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• Anna Wierda (0), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Peperzak (0), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antoinette DONCKIER de DONCEEL (63), Uccle (Bruxelles-Capitale), Brussels Capital Region, Belgie
• Alijda Wilhelmdr Quax (57), Gemeente den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Bartelds van Dijk (89), Westerlee, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands
• Annetje Van Klaveren (1), Zevenhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Kooijman (0), Charlois
• Anna Maria van de Water (0), Schiedam,-
• Alijda Quax (57), 't Zand, Noord-Holland (NL)
• Alida Quax (57), 't Zand

• 1853 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1861 » Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree († 1923)
• 1864 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1937)
• 1867 » Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist († 1932)
• 1871 » Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (d.1958)
• 1871 » Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer († 1946)
• 1881 » Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player († 1921)
• 1884 » Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal († 1979)
• 1886 » Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general († 1945)
• 1887 » Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway († 1945)

• 1817 » Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
• 1837 » Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (b. 1777)
• 1863 » Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)

• 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.
• June 10 » Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
• July 25 » The Wyoming Territory is established.
• September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
• October 7 » Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
• October 10 » The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
• December 9 » 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 July 18, 1868 was about 28.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.