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• Aaltje de Vries, Westeremden, Stedum, Groningen, Nederland († 1871)
• Hendrik Sloesarwij, Kockengen († 1869)
• ?? Zoutendijk, Pijnacker († 1869)
• Aafje Wolters, Bovensmilde († 1956)
• Adriana Ingelse, Westkapelle († 1963)
• Adrianus Jan Andries Gent van, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1933)
• Adrianus ROdenburg, Ridderkerk
• Adriana van der Swaluw, Den Bommel
• Anna Arnolda Cools, Utrecht († 1871)
• Alphonsius Petrus Boone, Lembeke († 1943)

• Catharina Jansen (58), Wilp
• Anna (Antje) Bax (67), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Kostense (0), Haamstede, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Akke Cornelia Kamm (0), Harderwijk
• Aaltje Hogenaar (65), Ouder Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis de Visser (0), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Christina Beursgens (63), Melick
• Adriana van Heukelen (32), Oude Niedorp, Hollands Kroon, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van Lent (0)
• Arnolda Ackermans (76), Rossum, Gemeente Maasdriel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1859 » Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist, founded the League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women († 1947)
• 1864 » Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist († 1926)
• 1868 » S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist and academic († 1939)
• 1870 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge († 1938)
• 1873 » Hayim Nahman Bialik, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist, author, and poet († 1934)
• 1873 » John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower († 1938)
• 1873 » Thomas Curtis, American sprinter and hurdler († 1944)
• 1875 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art († 1942)
• 1879 » John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic († 1958)
• 1881 » Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic († 1938)

• 1843 » William Hedley, English engineer (b. 1773)
• 1848 » Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (b. 1750)
• 1856 » Neophytos Vamvas, Greek cleric and educator (b. 1770)
• 1858 » Anson Jones, American physician and politician; 4th President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1798)
• 1873 » Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France (b. 1808)
• 1876 » Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and activist (b. 1801)
• 1878 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American-English businessman (b. 1812)
• 1901 » Richard Copley Christie, English lawyer and academic (b. 1830)
• 1908 » Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and painter (b. 1832)

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.
• January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
• May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
• October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
• November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

The temperature on January 9, 1869 was about 7.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.