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• Aleida Cornelisd Kwakman, Vollenhove, ov.nld († 1892)
• Agatha Anthonia Maria de Vries, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Jedema, Noordwolde († 1869)
• Aafje Jongejeugd, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Adriana Groenendijk, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht († 1869)
• Aajke Kooistra, Leeuwarden, Friesland, The Netherlands († 1920)
• Albert Jan Witteveen, Twello, Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)
• Albertus van Zeijst, Apeldoorn († 1869)
• van der Pluijm, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1869)
• Ágnes Komáromi, Mezősas, 4134, Magyarország († 1903)

• Adrianus (Arie) Verb(e)ij (78), Alphen aan den Rijn, Nederland
• Alida Verkaik (27), Alblasserdam
• Alphonsius Cornelis VANSPRANGHE (1), Poperinge, 33021, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Alida Jacobsd Verkaik (27), Alblasserdam, zh.nld
• Albertine von Hedemann (76), Dessau, Dessau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Duitsland
• Kropveld (0), Gramsbergen, Gemeente Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aart de Looijer (73), Ammerzoden
• Adrianus Verbeij (79), Alphen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus (Arie) Verbij (78), Alphen aan den Rijn, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aldegondis Valkenbergh (Valkenborg) (44), Opgrimbie (B.)

• 1842 » Dominic Savio, Italian Catholic saint, adolescent student of Saint John Bosco († 1857)
• 1861 » Iván Persa, Slovenian priest and author († 1935)
• 1862 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1869 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager († 1928)
• 1875 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler († 1940)
• 1875 » William Donne, English cricketer and captain († 1942)
• 1884 » J. C. Squire, English poet, author, and historian († 1958)
• 1891 » Jack Buchanan, Scottish entertainer († 1957)
• 1891 » Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet († 1976)
• 1891 » Tristão de Bragança Cunha, Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from Goa († 1958)

• 1827 » Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and educator (b. 1776)
• 1845 » Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1763)
• 1865 » A. P. Hill, American general (b. 1825)
• 1872 » Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (b. 1791)
• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)

• 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.
• May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
• May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
• August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
• December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

The temperature on April 2, 1869 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%.