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• Aagje Admiraal-, Castricum, Nederland († 1954)
• Anna Gertrud Roelands, St. Tönis (Dld) († 1904)
• Aaron Frankenhuis, Harderwijk
• Agnes Simons, Maasbree († 1915)
• Adriana Johanna Teunissen, Amsterdam († 1925)
• Klaas Wachtmeester, Hollandscheveld († 1894)
• Alida Geertruida Blokland, Rotterdam († 1870)
• Anna Maria Sophia Beniest, Vlissingen (NL) († 1928)
• Alida van der Ent, Rhoon, Albrandswaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1870)
• Aagje Admiraal, Castricum (Noord-Holland) († 1954)

• Akke Boon (61), Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Slotboom (1)
• Ailke Jakobs Timmer (74), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Andries Olman (84), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (56), ZEVENHUIZEN (Zuidplas), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje Pietersdr Noordermeer (18), Oostvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Apolonie KLINGELSCHMITT (22), Mulhouse, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Adrianus Marcus (0), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ankersmit (0), IJzerdoorn
• Annetje Noordermeer (18), Oostvoorne

• 1855 » Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator († 1936)
• 1872 » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist († 1950)
• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)
• 1886 » Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author († 1968)
• 1888 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1971)
• 1890 » Alfred Jodl, German general († 1946)
• 1891 » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic († 1934)

• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Aaltje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Neeltje
12. Trijntje
13. Grietje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
16. Petronella

• 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 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
• February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
• February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
• May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• May 14 » The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
• August 24 » The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.

The temperature on May 10, 1870 was about 10.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.