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• Annaatje van Gelder, Leerdam († 1934)
• Anna Philomenia DEPPE, Petersburg,Iowa († 1941)
• Anna Christina Kellenaers, Horst, Limburg, Nederland († 1956)
• Valk, Loosduinen († 1868)
• Anna Wagers (Wayers), Maastricht († 1951)
• Alice Rogers, Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa († 1942)
• Anna Maria Catharina Martens, Houthem, Limburg, Netherlands († 1945)
• Alphonsus Aloijsius Verhagen, Beek en Donk († 1868)
• Anne Jans Zwier, Terband, Aengwirden, Friesland, Nederland († 1940)
• Aaltje Ilmer, Dordrecht († 1957)

• Albertus Bakkenes (28), Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pommee (1), Leiden
• Ann Corbet ** (85), Avoch, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
• Adah Isaacs Menken (33), Paris (F75)
• Aartjen Mulder (65), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Ninaber (41), Willemstad-Curacao (N.A.)
• Antje Gerrits Herrema (0), Marssum
• Anna Catharina van den Eynde (50), Tielen,Antwerpen,Vlaanderen,Belgi√´
• Valk (0), Loosduinen
• Amolda Struik (0), Wijk bij Duurstede

• 1860 » Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist († 1936)
• 1865 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator († 1936)
• 1868 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman († 1954)
• 1869 » Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar († 1943)
• 1870 » Trần Tế Xương a Vietnamese poet and satirist († 1907)
• 1872 » William Manuel Johnson, American bassist († 1972)
• 1874 » Antanas Smetona, Lithuanian jurist and politician, President of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and from 1926 to 1940. († 1944)
• 1874 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States († 1964)
• 1877 » Frank Marshall, American chess player and author († 1944)
• 1878 » Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author († 1957)

• 1839 » Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English lawyer and politician (b. 1758)
• 1862 » Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
• 1875 » Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (b. 1831)
• 1890 » John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b. 1844)
• 1896 » Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (b. 1846)
• 1913 » Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (b. 1869)
• 1915 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (b. 1887)
• 1916 » John J. Loud, American inventor (b. 1844)

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.
• 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.
• April 7 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
• June 1 » The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on August 10, 1868 was about 27.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.