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• Aartje Rijsdijk, Ridderkerk († 1917)
• Adriana Catharina Elisabeth Wilhelmina Engelberts, Middelburg,Gemeente Middelburg,Zeeland,Netherlands
• Aaltje Kuik, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1916)
• Adriana Johanna Vrijlandt, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Elizabeth Wilhelmina Engelberts, Middelburg († 1933)
• Agatha Maria Pijpers, Hillegom († 1951)
• Aaltje Grevelink, almelo († 1949)
• Aartje Kamphuis, Garderen
• Alexander Boyd († 1944)
• Koster, Dokkum

• Anna~Gerrits Bijlsma (54), Drylts
• Anna Norberta Mutsaers (43), Leiden, Nederland
• Adriana Flipse (56), Goes
• (m) Hofius (0), Oberndorf, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Albartus Swaters (59), Didam
• Anna Norberta Mutsaers (43), Leiden (Zuid-Holland)
• Anna Maria Krull (0), Tinnen, Haren (Ems)
• Adriana Cornelis (39), Groede, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Leonardus Petrus Toussaint (1), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ardina van Duijnhoven (0), Uden

• 1861 » William C. Durant, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet († 1947)
• 1862 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright († 1921)
• 1863 » Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist († 1937)
• 1864 » Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor († 1943)
• 1865 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1865 » Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer († 1957)
• 1865 » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general († 1946)
• 1874 » Ernst Moro, Austrian physician and pediatrician († 1951)
• 1875 » Frederik Buch, Danish actor and screenwriter († 1925)
• 1877 » Paul Ladmirault, French pianist, violinist, and composer († 1944)

• 1830 » Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
• 1856 » Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
• 1864 » George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
• 1869 » Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)

• 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.
• February 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• September 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
• September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
• October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
• 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 8, 1870 was about -0.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.