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• Anna Maria VANGENEUGDEN, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 1896)
• Albert Pel ??, Achtkarspelen, Fr, Nederland
• Aaltje PLEIT, Numansdorp
• Aleida Hubertina Pieters, Gronsveld
• Adriana Kuijpers, Strijp
• Angelus Haerinck, Zulte († 1928)
• Anne Elizabeth Crawford, Lower Merion, Montgomery County, PA († 1930)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Jansen, Leiden († 1925)
• Antonia van GINKEL, Amerongen (Utrecht, The Netherlands) († 1954)
• Anna Margaretha Leurs, Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België († 1942)

• Adriaana de Wit (78), Wijngaarden
• Adrianus van den Brink (25), Frederiksoord zie Drenthe-Westerveld-Frederiksoord
• Aaltje Gosses Hooghiem (59), Texel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Allert Broers Broersma (45), Wonseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adam REEDIJK (6), Charlois
• Adrianus Aryse Burgers (79), Willemstad, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Donders (59), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Allert Broersma (45), Makkum, Friesland, Nederland
• Aartje Kraal (10), Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje (van) Oostrum (59), Langbroek, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1860 » John D. Batten, British painter, printmaker and illustrator (d.1932)
• 1863 » Edythe Chapman, American actress († 1948)
• 1864 » Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter and educator († 1955)
• 1870 » Louis Vierne, French organist and composer († 1937)
• 1872 » Mary Engle Pennington, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer († 1952)
• 1873 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect and academic, designed Lenin's Mausoleum († 1949)
• 1873 » Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer († 1967)
• 1875 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player and golfer († 1919)
• 1876 » Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician († 1966)
• 1877 » Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter († 1968)

• 1804 » Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1777)
• 1809 » James Elphinston, Scottish orthographer, phonologist, and linguist (b. 1721)
• 1821 » Juan O'Donojú, last Spanish ruler of Mexico (b. 1762)
• 1834 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 » John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)

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 6 » Celluloid is patented.
• 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.

The temperature on October 8, 1869 was about 14.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.