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• Anna Hubertina Paumen, Grevenbicht, Provincie Limburg, Nederland († 1947)
• Hendrik Jacobus Cornelis Wehmeijer, Amsterdam
• Albertus Leonardus Burgering, Heiloo († 1939)
• Anna Alberta Voorhorst, Deventer (O) († 1949)
• Aaltje Pilon, appingedam († 1950)
• adrianus groen, charlois
• Albert Humphrey
• Anna Maria Worms, Stein,, Limburg, Nederland († 1938)
• Adriana P. Kappers, Holland Township, Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin († 1939)
• Alida Stussij, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1933)

• Anna Maria GERWING (47), Exloërveen, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antje Nieboer (30), Hoogezand (Kropswolde)
• Adrianus van KLAVEREN (0), Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Levenloos kind van Soest (0), Maarssen, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana Maria Bakx (0), Huijbergen
• Adriaan Nicolaas Johan Hanedoes (83), Woudrichem,4285,Altena,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Anna Maria Selleslagh, Hingene Nathehaasdonk
• Aart ten Have (0), Elburg
• Aaltje ROOZEN (0), Dordrecht
• Aleida (Maria Alijda) Rabelink (62), Dreumel

• 1863 » Bob Fitzsimmons, English-New Zealand boxer († 1917)
• 1865 » Robert W. Chambers, American author and illustrator († 1933)
• 1867 » Mary of Teck, English-born queen consort of the United Kingdom († 1953)
• 1873 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator († 1958)
• 1876 » Percy Perrin, English cricketer († 1945)
• 1880 » W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator († 1967)
• 1881 » Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 († 1955)
• 1883 » Mamie Smith, American singer, actress, dancer, and pianist († 1946)
• 1886 » Al Jolson, American singer and actor († 1950)
• 1887 » Ba U, 2nd President of Burma († 1963)

• 1818 » Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785)
• 1818 » Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1761)
• 1824 » Capel Lofft, English lawyer (b. 1751)
• 1840 » Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (b. 1764)
• 1881 » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)
• 1883 » Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (b. 1808)
• 1902 » Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)

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.
• February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
• February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
• June 22 » The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
• August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
• 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 May 26, 1870 was about 15.7 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%.