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• Adriana BRUSSAARD, Oud Beijerland.ZH († 1949)
• Aloysius Adolphus Van Landeghem, Beveren, België
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Zoete, Monster
• Alida de Zanger, Alkemade († 1948)
• Aaltje Boschman, Oldebroek
• Adriana Wilhelmina de Zoete, Monster († 1969)
• Annigje ZWIERS, Den Ham, 5032, Overijssel, Nederland († 1949)
• ???? Johannes Harmens Wortman, Balk (Gaasterland), Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Brussaard, Oud Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Adriaan Melse, Meliskerke, Zeeland, NL († 1871)

• Aletta Cornelia van der Hee (0), Stolwijk
• Amelia Judieth Haanen (72), Ameland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia Maria Bavel van (70), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert de Bont (64), Ommerschans
• Anna Maria de Jongh (42), Amsterdam
• Aaltje van den Brink (0), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert JAcobus Erkelens (0), Koudekerk
• Amelia Judith Johannesdr. Haanen (72), Ameland, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Janmaat (2), Zevenhoven
• Anna Knauf (68), Hutten, Schlüchtern, Hessen

• 1858 » Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator († 1924)
• 1862 » Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager († 1956)
• 1865 » Charles Sands, American golfer and tennis player († 1945)
• 1868 » Jaan Tõnisson, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941?)
• 1869 » Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1931)
• 1869 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright († 1935)
• 1872 » Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist († 1961)
• 1874 » Franz Schmidt, Austrian cellist, pianist, and composer († 1939)
• 1876 » Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer († 1944)
• 1878 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper († 1925)

• 1828 » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
• 1853 » Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)

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 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
• January 26 » Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
• February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
• May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
• September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

The temperature on December 22, 1870 was about -9.5 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.