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• Alida Matse, Broek
• -levenloos kind- Hof, Haule († 1869)
• Adriana Anna Maria Vermeulen
• Adrianus Tebak, Woensel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1956)
• Adriana Anna Maria Vermeulen, Tilburg
• Adrianus Tebak, Woensel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1956)
• Albert den Boer,, Delft
• Aaftje Dekker, Heiloo († 1908)
• Albertus Johannes Lucassen, Ambt Almelo
• Albert Hoving, Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1930)

• Alida Baars (92), Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Van Beek (32), Voorst
• Aardje Jansen Klijn (93), Baarn(UT)
• Adrianus Bastiaensen (69), Essen, Antwerpen, België
• Alida Hertogsveld (76), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Hertusveld (Hartogsveld) (77), Amersfoort
• Aagje Jacobs Mantel (30), Haarlemmermeer
• Aagje Mantel (30), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Hermanus Arentsen (59), Arnhem
• Aleida Elisabeth Reinira Daendels (69), Hattem,Gemeente Hattem,Gelderland,Netherlands

• 1856 » Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France († 1951)
• 1860 » Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)
• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)
• 1868 » Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer († 1944)
• 1876 » Erich Raeder, German admiral († 1960)
• 1878 » Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter († 1958)
• 1879 » Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer († 1984)
• 1880 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper († 1954)
• 1880 » Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist († 1964)
• 1882 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal († 1970)

• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1942 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)

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.
• April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
• June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
• July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
• 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).
• September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
• 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 April 24, 1869 was about 14.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.