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• Aaltje Douwes Krol, Noordwolde
• Abellina Hillena WIERSEMA, Zijldijk, Groningen, Nederland († 1937)
• Anna Maria STARINK, Doesburg († 1869)
• Antonetta Maria van Wees, Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant) († 1934)
• Alma Otilia M Ekvall, Sweden († 1917)
• Alfred Morley, Babraham, Cambridgeshire. England († 1958)
• Abellina Hillena Wiersema, 't Zandt, Loppersum, Groningen, Netherlands († 1937)
• Anna Ommert, Oberkalbach, Hessen, Duitsland († 1924)
• Albert de Vries, Ter Idzard († 1954)
• Allen Spencer Burgoyne, Berrien Co, MI († 1953)

• Antje IJsbrands van der Wal (70), Akmarijp
• arie ROZENDAAL (0), westmaas
• Catharina Schijvens (71), Wijk bij Duurstede,Utrecht,Nederland
• Beerdtje Hogenbirk (27), Huizen
• Arie Teunis van Maurik (0), Hoogblokland
• Anna Maria Möller * (57), Elsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Adrien TONDEUR (68), Hoves, Henegouwen, België
• Albert Brinkshuis (12), Almelo
• Anna-Geertrui Michels (0), Venray
• Ane Jouwsz STAPERSMA (23), Wommels, Friesland, Nederland

• 1855 » Isabella Ford, English author and activist († 1924)
• 1861 » József Rippl-Rónai, Hungarian painter († 1927)
• 1863 » Władysław Horodecki, Polish architect († 1930)
• 1864 » William O'Connor, American fencer († 1939)
• 1865 » Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian jurist and politician, 11th President of Brazil († 1942)
• 1875 » Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman and philanthropist († 1966)
• 1882 » William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter († 1960)
• 1883 » Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1939)
• 1884 » Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer († 1965)
• 1887 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist († 1963)

• 1841 » Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)

• 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.
• June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
• October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
• October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
• 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.
• November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
• December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

The temperature on May 23, 1869 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west by south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.