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• Aagje Oosthuizen, Wormerveer († 1869)
• Aloysius Vercauteren, Temse (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Aaltje Mulder, Ede († 1939)
• Aafke (Effie) Terborgh, Loppersum (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Anna Maria Lipperts (Lippertz), Wittem, Limburg, Nederland († 1911)
• Aaltje van der Veen, Den Helder († 1912)
• Aagt van Ingen
• Adrianus Hendricus Michels, Rotterdam († 1870)
• Aaltje Hommes, Vriescheloo (gem. Westerwolde) († 1889)
• Adriana den Exter, Terneuzen, Nederland († 1928)

• Alberdiena OOIJMAN (45), Zelhem, Nederland, Gelderland, Wassinkbrink
• Anna Nomden (0), Morige, Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arie Blom (3), Langerak
• Adrianus Luijten (64), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aalberdiena Ooijman (45), Wassinkbrink
• Borgnis Cicalino (0), Craveggia, 28852, Italia
• Arie Blom (13), Langerak
• Jaantje de Boer (45), Kockengen
• Aalberdina Ooijman (45), Wassinkbrink (Zelhem)
• Aseana Susan Toms (71), Albemarle County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten

• 1860 » John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager († 1925)
• 1866 » Fred A. Busse, American lawyer and politician, 39th Mayor of Chicago († 1914)
• 1868 » Émile Chartier, French philosopher and journalist († 1951)
• 1869 » Henry Wood, English conductor († 1944)
• 1871 » Maurice Garin, Italian-French cyclist († 1957)
• 1873 » William Green, American union leader and politician († 1952)
• 1880 » Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1880 » Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1946)
• 1882 » Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman († 1949)
• 1882 » Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter († 1974)

• 1792 » Robert Adam, Scottish-English architect and politician, designed the Culzean Castle (b. 1728)
• 1850 » Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
• 1894 » Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1901 » George Gilman, American businessman, founded The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (b. 1830)
• 1927 » J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
• 1927 » Mikhail Artsybashev, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 » George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1877)

• 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 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
• May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
• June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
• August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
• October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.

There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.