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• Adriana de Ridder, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1870)
• Adolf CARDOEN, Meerbeke,9402,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1954)
• Albert Leerink, Zelhem († 1871)
• Adrianus Hageman, Bergeijk
• Alphonse Baele, Kalken (Oost-Vlaanderen, België) († 1933)
• Adrianus Koster, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• anna petronella van gaelen, haarlem († 1932)
• Albert Bruggeman, Heerde († 1922)
• Amanda Rosebelle Lusk, West Virginia († 1911)
• Adriana van Toorn, Opijnen, Nederland († 1936)

• Antonius Gerardus Nicolaas (Klaas) Bouman (0), Loo, 6924, Nederland
• Anthonia van Elst (45), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catherina Pollaert (91), Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
• Auguste CATTEEUW (18), Kortrijk, 34022, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Antonia Van den Broeck (29), Nijlen, België
• Ann PRINGLE (91), Ivy Cottage, Colinton, Edinburgh
• Adrianus Hendrik Smaal (1), Jutphaas
• Annigjen Veldhof (67), Hoogersmilde
• Albertje Feijkjes Streekstra (36), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Bastiaan van der Meer

• 1865 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress († 1944)
• 1870 » Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer († 1894)
• 1873 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1874 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach († 1938)
• 1876 » Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer († 1957)
• 1878 » Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor († 1968)
• 1879 » Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator († 1968)
• 1880 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware († 1962)
• 1882 » Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss († 1957)
• 1883 » Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss († 1968)

• 1841 » Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish explorer (b. 1780)
• 1841 » Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
• 1848 » Christian VIII, Danish king (b. 1786)
• 1850 » Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1779)
• 1852 » Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 » Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (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).
• August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• September 1 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
• September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
• September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.
• September 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.

The temperature on January 20, 1870 was about -1.0 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.