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• ANDRIES OEPKES SCHUIL, LOOSDUINEN († 1945)
• Abraham Tol, Egmond aan Zee († 1894)
• Albert Ekkels, Vledder (Frederiksoord), Drenthe, Nederland († 1955)
• Adrianus Theodorus van Beek, Hellevoetsluis, Nederland († 1869)
• Adriana de Meijer, Hoek (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1947)
• Alida Pieternella De Sterke, Dordrecht, ZH, Nederland († 1869)
• Aaltje Martens Dijkstra, Burum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland († 1941)
• Alida Wilhelmina Hoogenboom, Rotterdam († 1869)
• Adriana van Wageningen, Zeist († 1954)
• Aaltje Dijkstra, Burum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1941)

• Aaltje Klaassen Havens (76), Wetering (Steenwijkerwold)
• Anna Lesesne Sinkler (13)
• Aagje van Hoevelaken (0), Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland
• Stevens (0), Beilen
• Aletta Johanna Zell (83), Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltjen Klaasen Haven (76), Wetering (Steenwijkerwold), Overijssel, Nederland
• Aleida Willemina de Haan (0), Wilp
• Amelia Snauwaert (34), Wingene, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Margaretha Foerger (77), Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Anna Elisabeth Joossens (0), Massenhoven

• 1858 » Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman († 1954)
• 1860 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States († 1936)
• 1864 » Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author († 1934)
• 1868 » Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer († 1894)
• 1874 » W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer († 1965)
• 1878 » Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer († 1975)
• 1882 » Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic († 1941)
• 1885 » Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author († 1942)
• 1886 » Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer († 1954)
• 1895 » Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress († 1927)

• 1852 » Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1778)
• 1872 » Richard S. Ewell, American general (b. 1817)
• 1881 » Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
• 1884 » Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
• 1891 » Theo van Gogh, Art dealer, the brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857)
• 1900 » Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)
• 1907 » René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
• 1908 » Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
• 1910 » W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860)

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. Albert
16. Leendert

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.
• March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 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.
• July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
• October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
• November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
• December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

The temperature on January 25, 1869 was about -4.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.