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• Aaltje Harkema, Bedum,Gemeente Bedum, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Anna Adriana DORSMAN, Barendrecht, Gemeente Barendrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
• Amose M. Bridges, Rutherford County, North Carolina († 1949)
• den Hollander, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Pieter Bot, sliedrecht (zuid holland) († 1870)
• Arie van den Eijkel, Rijnsburg († 1872)
• Arien Jan Koolhaas, Enkhuizen, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriaan Daniels, Nuenen
• Arend van den Berg, Leidschendam-Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1941)
• Arien Jan Koolhaas, Enkhuizen († 1945)

• Anna Jansen (4), Ommerschans
• Adèle Julie Victoire Marie Foucher (64), Bruxelles
• Annetje van den Berg (60), Vaassen (Epe)
• Adriana de Hoop (88), BENSCHOP (Lopik), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna HALL (100), Newry, Oxford, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Abner Blair (85), Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Annetje van den Berg (60), Vaassen
• Alexander Mook (66), Rotterdam
• Adriana Henderika de Vries (1), Emmen
• Alphonsius Baert (0), Graauw en Langendam

• 1864 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast († 1919)
• 1865 » Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1865 » James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian († 1935)
• 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)
• 1877 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1910)
• 1877 » Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1963)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

• 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 2 » Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
• April 10 » At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
• 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.
• 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 August 27, 1868 was about 15.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.