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• Adriaantje Buth, Middelharnis
• Adriana Maria Jansen, Zaamslag († 1944)
• Anneke EKELMANS, Gameren (Gld.)
• Anna Kortenvoort, Stad Almelo († 1958)
• Anna Clasina van der Kooij, Pijnacker,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1955)
• Anna Maria van Straaten, Heemstede († 1942)
• Albert van der Haar, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1950)
• Albertien Kamps, Drouwenerveen (Borger) († 1872)
• Adrianus Ludovicus Druyts, Antwerpen
• Anna Puijk, Kralingen († 1870)

• Antonius Verkuijlen (41), Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Ackerman (82), West Winfield, Herkimer County, New York
• Anna Maria Van Lommel (82), Herenthout, België
• Agnes Hak (65), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus van HECK (11), Dordrecht
• Agnieta Hak (65), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agnita Hak (65), Culemborg
• Adrianus Carolus Dolk (70), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ANNA MARIA VAN HOOF, Onze Lieve Vrouw Waver
• Charles Sutherland (51), Gabarouse, Nova Scotia, Canada

• 1858 » John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist († 1918)
• 1865 » Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator († 1925)
• 1872 » August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor († 1921)
• 1872 » Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria († 1956)
• 1874 » Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1899)
• 1878 » Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France († 1966)
• 1879 » Jane Darwell, American actress († 1967)
• 1881 » P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright († 1975)
• 1882 » Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach († 1941)
• 1884 » Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot († 1910)

• 1817 » Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
• 1819 » Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
• 1820 » Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
• 1837 » Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1760)
• 1891 » Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850)
• 1910 » Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (b. 1838)
• 1925 » Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)

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).
• 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.
• February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
• August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
• September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
• December 12 » Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.

The temperature on October 15, 1870 was about 5.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.