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• Adriaan van de Pol, Goirle 5053, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aantje Ooms, Streefkerk († 1934)
• Adriana Verschoor, Strijen († 1945)
• Adriana (2) VOORSPUIJ, Streefkerk, Liesveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Albert Johann Karl Friedrich Alfred Duke Of Schleswig-Holstein, Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, England († 1931)
• Aafkje (Aalkje) Wouters Glashouwer, Hommerts gem. Wymbritseradeel Friesland, Nederland († 1930)
• Aagje Raven, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bosma
• Adrianus Alsemgeest, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1869)
• Adrianus Meijer, Haarlem, Nederland († 1869)

• Auscher Plaut (78), Wehrda, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hessen
• Anna Martha Dauw Jr (84), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Krouwers (78), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Moraal (0), Zoeterwoude, ZH, Nederland
• Auguste Baudry (55), Villers Sire Nicole, 59600, Nord, FRANCE
• Abram Abraham Wagemans (79), Leiden
• Benjamin Joseph van Ravenswaaij (1), Gelders Veenendaal (Ede), Nederland
• "Maximilian" Joseph Carl Ludwig Caspar Grimaud (79), Graz, Autriche
• Anna Catharina van de Geer (0)
• Montagne (79), Koepoortsgracht, wijk 2, no 128, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1857 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist († 1926)
• 1861 » Ferdinand I of Bulgaria († 1948)
• 1861 » Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian soldier and politician († 1939)
• 1866 » Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company († 1930)
• 1877 » Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia († 1959)
• 1877 » Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator († 1968)
• 1879 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer († 1941)
• 1880 » Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer († 1972)
• 1881 » Janus Djurhuus, Faroese poet († 1948)
• 1882 » Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral († 1968)

• 1815 » Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1737)
• 1821 » Joseph de Maistre, French lawyer and diplomat (b. 1753)
• 1864 » Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian jurist and politician, 3rd Premier of Canada East (b. 1807)
• 1883 » Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek lawyer and politician, 56th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
• 1887 » Anandi Gopal Joshi, First Indian women physician (b. 1865)
• 1889 » Karl Davydov, Russian cellist and composer (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
• 1906 » Jean Lanfray, Swiss convicted murderer (b. 1874)
• 1913 » Felix Draeseke, German composer and academic (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Carl Menger, Polish-Austrian economist and academic (b. 1840)

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 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
• August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
• November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
• 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.
• December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.