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• Anna Witte, Operen († 1887)
• Aagje Jacoba van Duijvenbode, Katwijk aan Zee
• Anna Antonia van Vuuren, montfoort († 1875)
• Albert Aberson, Ruurlo († 1904)
• Anna Christina VANDEPUT, Zonhoven Belgie
• Alida van Dorp, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1869)
• anoniem Populier, Den Bosch, Nederland († 1869)
• Abraham Warren CARLTON, Pennington († 1908)
• Aaltje Burema, Zuidbroek (gem. Midden-Groningen) († 1948)
• (w) Schneider, Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein

• Antje van der Velde (18)
• Carolus Ludovicus BOODTS (62), Tielrode,9140,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aagtje Jans Boerema (52), Ezinge
• Anna Sibilla PRINTZEN (79), Dohr, Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Antonia Johanna Bosch (36), Deventer
• Adrianus Kester (0), Vlaardinger-Ambacht
• Anthonia Johanna Burger (0), Cothen
• antoon oomen (70), meijel
• Abraham van der Wal (0), Swichum, Ljouwerteradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Jan van 't Veen (55), Oldebroek

• 1857 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia († 1930)
• 1860 » Tom Norman, English businessman († 1930)
• 1861 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1867 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1925)
• 1875 » Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter († 1951)
• 1880 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee († 1972)
• 1881 » George E. Wiley, American cyclist († 1954)
• 1882 » Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet († 1960)
• 1885 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor († 1969)
• 1889 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel († 1943)

• 1825 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)
• 1840 » Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (b. 1774)
• 1868 » Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
• 1872 » Alexander Loyd, American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1876 » William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795)
• 1887 » C. F. W. Walther, German-American religious leader and theologian (b. 1811)
• 1896 » H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)
• 1902 » Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)

• 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.
• March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
• July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
• October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
• 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 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

The temperature on May 7, 1869 was about 18.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west by south. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%.