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• Aleida Luberta Vermeulen, Den Haag/Frederiksoord
• Alida Josso, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1870)
• Anna G. Katte, Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1957)
• Alida Josso, AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1870)
• Anna Celestia Braham, Ontario, Canada († 1945)
• Alida Cornelia van Niele, Den Helder († 1945)
• Albert Santing, Roswinkel, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1940)
• Anna van Westen, Opmeer († 1941)
• Alfred Erlin Kaiser, Vaughan, York, Ontario, Canada († 1946)
• Anna Adelheid Heller, Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1942)

• Brice François VIRION (79), Bettegney Saint-Brice
• Aaltjen Janzen Snorrewind (68), Holten
• (Gijsbertje) C(h)ristina van Rijnsbergen (Binsbergen) (79), Geldermalsen
• Bartholomeus Kniest (0), Sassenheim, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hendrik Kersten (0), Utrecht
• Azel Lathrop (77)
• Abraham Visbeen (63), Haarlem
• Albert Jager (1)
• Annigje Schutteldoek (64), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Maus (39), Veldhoven

• 1850 » Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer († 1896)
• 1852 » J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic († 1919)
• 1852 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1911)
• 1856 » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist († 1927)
• 1860 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator († 1900)
• 1870 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia († 1891)
• 1871 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1883 » Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist († 1931)
• 1884 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1885 » Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach († 1957)

• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)

• 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.
• January 3 » Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• April 11 » Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
• September 23 » Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
• 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 24 » The Greek Presidential Guard is established as the royal escort by King George I.

The temperature on August 30, 1868 was about 20.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.