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• Andries Beljaers, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Adriana Elisabeth Onderdijk, Bruinisse
• Adriana Rijken, Sprang-Capelle († 1906)
• Adrianus van der Meij, Zoeterwoude B25 († 1870)
• Aafke [Gerrits] DIJKSTRA, Sint Annaparochie, Nederland († 1957)
• Aant Post, Nes († 1954)
• Angela Anna Marguerita Maria Josepha Lambo, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Andries Beljaers, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Adrianus Cornelis Zuijdervelt, Heusden († 1939)
• Spée (Spee), Maastricht, Nederland († 1870)

• Aarnoud Minderhoud (Minderhout) (69), Koudekerke
• Alida Brouwer (47), Tiel
• Anthonius Marissink (2), Vaassen
• Alardus Hillen (81), Blerick
• Aaltje Sterenberg (0), Holwierde,Bierum, Groningen, Nederland
• Aalbert Heinrich Wilhelm Smeerdijk (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Lambertus Kuppen (3), Wijchen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Alida Brouwer (47), Tiel
• arie groenewoud (3), amsterdam
• Abraham Visser, e3f2 (85), Beaufort West, Cape Province, South Africa

• 1860 » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist († 1940)
• 1860 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk († 1940)
• 1862 » Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer († 1918)
• 1867 » Charles Francis Jenkins, American inventor († 1934)
• 1867 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist († 1939)
• 1868 » Willis R. Whitney, American chemist († 1958)
• 1873 » Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher († 1928)
• 1874 » Max Scheler, German philosopher and author († 1928)
• 1880 » George Herriman, American cartoonist († 1944)
• 1880 » Gorch Fock, German author and poet († 1916)

• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 » Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1888 » Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1817)
• 1891 » Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
• 1903 » Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Kate Chopin, American novelist and poet (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (b. 1846)
• 1914 » Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian bishop and academic (b. 1859)
• 1918 » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (b. 1868)

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.
• May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
• September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
• September 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.

The temperature on August 22, 1870 was about 18.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.