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• Aagje van de Haar, Utrecht († 1871)
• Albert Kolhek, Kolham, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1871)
• Aloysius Adolphus Van Landeghem, Beveren, België
• Adriana van den Heuvel, Schaijk († 1946)
• Anna Maria Schepers, Heseper-Twist († 1872)
• Annie (Anna) Hegenbarth, Marylebone, Middlesex, England († 1921)
• Adriana BRUSSAARD, Oud Beijerland.ZH († 1949)
• Alphonse Francois Albert Lauzin, france († 1954)
• Adriaan Melse, Meliskerke, Zeeland, NL († 1871)
• Adriana van Hooijdonk, Oosterhout,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1929)

• Adriana de Goeij (44), Hedel, Gelderland, Nederland
• , Haarlemmermeer, Nederland
• Adolf Christiaan Gunsch (69), Soerabaja (Indonesie)
• Adriana Francken (0)
• Alavesta Rebecca Fenstermacher (20), Philadelphia Co.Pennsylvania
• van der Jagt (0), Tiel
• Anna Maria de Jongh (42), Amsterdam
• Adriana Verweij (53), Boskoop
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Heihoff (68), Gladbeck-Butendorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• * Arie (1) Preesman (0), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL

• 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)

• 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.
• February 3 » The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
• June 22 » The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
• September 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
• September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.
• November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

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%.