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• Alberta Brouwer († 1942)
• Agatha van Heiningen, Stompwijk († 1950)
• Agatha van Heijningen, Stompwijk († 1950)
• Anna Maria Raaphorst, Wateringen,-
• Adriana Quist, Dinteloord
• * Dorothea van den Bosch, Vlijmen († 1943)
• Adriana Cornelia Driessen, Eierland (Texel) († 1956)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Josephina Oomes, Hasselt (B)
• Aleida Wilhelmina Bouwman, Gaanderen, Nederland
• Anna Vanhees, Vlijtingen, België († 1951)

• Arien van Twuijver (63), Zuid-Scharwoude
• Anthony van Scherpenzeel (0), De Bilt (Utrecht)
• Anthonij van Scherpenzeel (0), De Bilt, Nederland
• Arie Abbenes (0), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Caatje van der Knaap (75), Kethel en Spaland
• Aafke (Willems) van DUINEN (17), Grootegast, Westerkwartier, Groningen, Nederland
• Ariaantje Krab (11), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Arie de Bruijn (0), Dubbeldam
• Arie de BRUIJN (0), Dubbeldam
• Abraham Jong (0), Leiden

• 1858 » Eugene Foss, American businessman and politician, 45th Governor of Massachusetts († 1939)
• 1859 » Julius Klengel, German cellist and composer († 1933)
• 1861 » Bhikaiji Cama, Indian activist († 1936)
• 1870 » Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting († 1960)
• 1871 » Lottie Dod, English tennis player, golfer, and archer († 1960)
• 1872 » Jaan Teemant, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th State Elder of Estonia († 1941)
• 1873 » María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui, Cuban pianist and composer († 1957)
• 1878 » Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet († 1947)
• 1880 » Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian, oldest verified American person ever († 1999)
• 1882 » Max Decugis, French tennis player († 1978)

• 1834 » Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1798)
• 1848 » Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (b. 1817)
• 1863 » William Debenham, English businessman, founded Debenhams (b. 1794)
• 1889 » Charles Leroux, American balloonist and skydiver (b. 1856)
• 1889 » D. H. Hill, American general and academic (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American soldier and composer (b. 1829)
• 1896 » Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)
• 1930 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
• April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
• May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
• July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
• August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

The temperature on September 24, 1869 was about 17.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.