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• Alois Dumoulin, Woumen
• Adrianus Cornelis Hardus, Bergen op Zoom
• Adriana Twigt, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Nederland
• Alphonse Hubert Dehairs, Sint-Truiden, België
• Niesing, Gieten († 1870)
• Adriana Goedegebuure, 's Heer Arendskerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1891)
• *levenloos* zoon van Jan Jacobsz (*1840) Lammers, Wemeldinge († 1870)
• Aaldert Kreuzen, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1871)
• Albert Boesjes, Dalen († 1945)
• Alphonsius Geldmeyer, Kieldrecht

• Antonie Cornelis Simons, Princenhage
• Anna Maria Le Comte (61)
• Aleida Segers (75), Didam
• Antonia Adegeest (0), Pijnacker
• Alida de Kruijf (36), Utrecht
• Adriana Pieternella Daleboudt (3), Goes
• Bernardina Crnlia van Nes (23), Boskoop
• Bernadus Johannes Bouwman (2), Gaanderen, Nederland
• Aleida Naber (68), Teich, Saarland, Germany
• Ossewaarde (0), Wolphaartsdijk

• 1858 » Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist († 1922)
• 1863 » Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden († 1955)
• 1871 » Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician († 1956)
• 1873 » Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures († 1976)
• 1873 » Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist († 1914)
• 1875 » Gustav Flatow, German gymnast († 1945)
• 1876 » William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer († 1906)
• 1877 » William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer († 1928)
• 1889 » Vera de Bosset, Russian-American ballerina († 1982)
• 1891 » Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist († 1960)

• 1812 » Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (b. 1768)
• 1830 » John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
• 1830 » Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (b. 1769)
• 1858 » Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1800)
• 1864 » Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
• 1892 » Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)
• 1893 » Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
• 1920 » Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• 1927 » Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)

• 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 6 » The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
• January 26 » Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
• February 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
• 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 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.

The temperature on January 7, 1870 was about 7.3 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.