About the day » Thursday August 5, 1869Calender converter

• Adriaan Woutersz. Reijnierse, Rotterdam
• Adriana Johanna Westerveld, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Reijnierse, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Aleida , Adelheid Koop, Emmen(Dr)-Nieuw Dordrecht († 1948)
• Alois Deschamps, Staden († 1936)
• Adrianus Parijs, Vlijmen
• Albertus Bernard Cornelis van Wijk, Ohé en Laak
• Albert Pals, Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Nieuw Amsterdam) († 1948)
• Andreas Tiethoff, Eschmarke (Lonneker)
• Aaltje Bosma, Katlijk († 1950)

• Alida Krul (54), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ziedses des Plantes Theodore Victor Gerard (49), Rotterdam Hillegerberg
• Antonio Manoel de Freitas (91), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Antonia Meesters (37), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika van der WAAL (3), Groote Lindt
• Aurélie Harrisson (8), Ste-Félicité, Qc, Canada
• Berend Stapert (0), St. Annaparochie
• Arie Cornelisz Punt (70), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Nederland
• Antonia Francina Steijl (0), 's Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Aaltje Bordewijk (0), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1860 » Louis Wain, English artist († 1939)
• 1862 » Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities († 1890)
• 1866 » Carl Harries, German chemist and academic († 1923)
• 1866 » Harry Trott, Australian cricketer († 1917)
• 1868 » Oskar Merikanto, Finnish pianist and composer († 1924)
• 1872 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation († 1917)
• 1874 » Horace Rawlins, English golfer († 1935)
• 1874 » Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic († 1948)
• 1876 » Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and activist († 1958)
• 1877 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter († 1917)

• 1868 » Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788)
• 1877 » Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b. 1830)
• 1880 » Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816)
• 1881 » Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823)
• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)

• 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.
• 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.
• October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
• October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
• November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

The temperature on August 5, 1869 was about 13.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.