About the day » Wednesday April 7, 1869Calender converter

• Alidor Richard Dekeyser, Kortemark,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Adrianus Franciscus de Bie, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Adriana Francina Slingerland, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Vos, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1947)
• Aaltje Cremer, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Amelia H. "Amy" Griffith, Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1936)
• Aleida Hendrika Schwendbauer, Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1947)
• Albert Jan Dommerholt, Holten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1957)
• Anna Cornelia Schoonis, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL
• Alida Célina MERCIER, Fresnes-sur-Escaut... Hauts de France († 1869)

• Aaltje Antonia van Helsdingen (28), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolf of Adolph Jillisz Burger (77), Monster, Nederland
• Amelia TACK (50), Moerbeke-Waas(OVL)
• Aaltje Antonia van Helsdingen (28), Utrecht
• Anna Camilla Ricci (50), Popoli, Province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy
• Brouwer, Sneek
• Antje Buis, Zwaag
• Adriaan Quirijns (0), Sprang
• Aimee Albertine Boulet (68), Amsterdam
• Antje Harms Pottjewijd (56), Nieuwe Pekela

• 1859 » Walter Camp, American football player and coach († 1925)
• 1860 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company († 1951)
• 1867 » Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic († 1953)
• 1870 » Gustav Landauer, Jewish-German theorist and activist († 1919)
• 1871 » Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino jurist, historian, and scholar († 1927)
• 1873 » John McGraw, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, German-American painter († 1939)
• 1876 » Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach, and lawyer († 1945)
• 1882 » Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricketer († 1971)
• 1882 » Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany († 1934)

• 1836 » William Godwin, English journalist and author (b. 1756)
• 1849 » Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777)
• 1850 » William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
• 1858 » Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (b. 1781)
• 1868 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician (b. 1825)
• 1879 » Begum Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (b. 1804)
• 1889 » Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876 (b. 1823)
• 1889 » Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese soldier and politician (b. 1823)
• 1891 » P. T. Barnum, American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1810)

• 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 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 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
• August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
• 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.

The temperature on April 7, 1869 was about 10.8 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.