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• Aaltje GROOT, Steggerda
• Adriana VERSCHOOR, Culemborg († 1933)
• Alexandra af Grekenland og Danmark, p� Korfu, Gr�kenland († 1891)
• Agatha Femmina KAPTIJN, Haarlem († 1903)
• Aart Oudhuizen, Veenendaal († 1924)
• Adriana Jacoba Hulsman, Utrecht († 1943)
• Aagje Zwaan, den Helder, prov. Noord Holland († 1870)
• Albert Fetzes Sytsma, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafke Bennema, Den Ham, Aduard,, Groningen, Nederland († 1950)
• Agatha Jacoba Johanna te Rehorst, Amsterdam

• Aleijda Stoffels, Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Jans Bakker (30), Oosterend, Netherlands
• Antje Hogenboom (66), Woubrugge
• Anthonia van Veenendaal (1), Utrecht
• Aaltje Jacomina Overdorp (0), Zalk
• Anna Francisca TOURNE (30), Londerzeel,1840,Brabant Flamand,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aaltje van Straalen (0), Zegwaart, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie Krijn Kuiper (34), op zee
• Adolf Jan Frederik Heeres (0), Loppersum 51
• Adèle CARRIER (22), St-Georges,Beauce,Québec,CANADA

• 1857 » Sandford Schultz, English cricketer († 1937)
• 1861 » Byron G. Harlan, American singer († 1936)
• 1862 » Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia († 1928)
• 1862 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1871 » Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France († 1950)
• 1875 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator († 1962)
• 1876 » Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics († 1958)
• 1876 » Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea († 1949)
• 1887 » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat († 1978)
• 1888 » Salme Dutt, Estonian-English politician († 1964)

• 1844 » Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 » Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)

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 3 » Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
• January 6 » The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
• 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.
• July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
• September 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.

The temperature on August 29, 1870 was about 15.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.