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• Anna van Santen, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1900)
• Adriana Andriese, Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Franssen, Maastricht, LI, Netherlands († 1941)
• Ann Whelan, Fort William, Bengal, India
• Anna Bell Lowry, Delaware County, Ohio, United States of America († 1955)
• Arie de Mik, Stolwijk († 1951)
• Antonia Pardoel, Bakel en Milheeze († 1913)
• Abraham Fernandes, .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname († 1921)
• Antonius Hendrik Stokvis, amsterdam, Nederland
• Adelina Addie Teeters, Clear Lake, Steuben Co.Indiana († 1958)

• Achille Gonzaga (47)
• Aletta Jacoba Rahusen (56), Breukelen
• Aaltje ROMKES (57), Sappemeer, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Ates Bijstra (36), Wijnjeterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• 00 Maria Baars, Beekbergen, Gem, Apeldoon, Gelderland, NL
• Albertus Rouwendal (41), Deventer
• Anna Neeleman (54), Rotterdam
• * Cornelis Bogerd Boogert (58), Leerdam
• Anna Neleman (Neeleman) (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pinxterhuis (0), Koekange

• 1860 » Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist († 1936)
• 1865 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator († 1936)
• 1868 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman († 1954)
• 1869 » Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar († 1943)
• 1870 » Trần Tế Xương a Vietnamese poet and satirist († 1907)
• 1872 » William Manuel Johnson, American bassist († 1972)
• 1874 » Antanas Smetona, Lithuanian jurist and politician, President of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and from 1926 to 1940. († 1944)
• 1874 » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States († 1964)
• 1877 » Frank Marshall, American chess player and author († 1944)
• 1878 » Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author († 1957)

• 1839 » Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English lawyer and politician (b. 1758)
• 1862 » Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
• 1875 » Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (b. 1831)
• 1890 » John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b. 1844)
• 1896 » Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (b. 1848)
• 1904 » Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (b. 1846)
• 1913 » Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (b. 1869)
• 1915 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (b. 1887)
• 1916 » John J. Loud, American inventor (b. 1844)

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. Elizabeth

• 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.
• February 28 » The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• April 13 » The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
• June 22 » The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
• August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
• August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
• September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.

The temperature on August 10, 1870 was about 17.9 °C. There was 27 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.