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• Aaltje Hettes de Vries, gem. Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• * Grietje van Dijk, Nieuw-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1869)
• ??? ????, Gorssel († 1949)
• Aarnout Marinus Snouck Hurgronje, Malang
• Aaltje Larooij, Vrouwenparochie
• Anna Gesina Dorothea Maria van Swaay, Loenen aan de Vecht (Stichtse Vecht) († 1951)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Oomens, Baardwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1869)
• Aalt van de Kraats, Norden (gem. Putten), Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Akkermans, Berkel-Enschot, Nederland
• Albert van der Jagt, Wildervank († 1892)

• Adalaida Carolina Regina Reynders (52), PAAL
• Bastiaan van den Berge (69)
• Aaltje Methorst (84), Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Romijnders (26), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje Vel (44), Edam
• Magermans (0), Meerssen
• Adriana Romeijnders (26), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Teigeler (88), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia De Punt (67), Meire
• Atje Jacoba van Beuningen van Helsdingen (74), Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1865 » Max Nettlau, German historian and academic († 1944)
• 1866 » Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, American pioneer dentist († 1936)
• 1869 » Hans Poelzig, German architect, designed the IG Farben Building and Großes Schauspielhaus († 1936)
• 1870 » Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter († 1944)
• 1870 » Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer († 1948)
• 1874 » Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish priest and author († 1949)
• 1876 » Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician († 1937)
• 1877 » Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist († 1967)
• 1877 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist († 1917)
• 1878 » Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist († 1948)

• 1841 » Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish philologist and author (b. 1758)
• 1847 » Charles, Austrian commander and duke of Teschen (b. 1771)
• 1863 » Jean Danjou, French captain (b. 1828)
• 1865 » Robert FitzRoy, English admiral, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (b. 1805)
• 1870 » Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1792)
• 1875 » Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
• 1879 » Emma Smith, American religious leader (b. 1804)
• 1883 » Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and author (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (b. 1863)

• 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.
• May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
• August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

The temperature on April 30, 1869 was about 11.9 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.