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• Abraham Verhaar, Nieuw-Lekkerland († 1947)
• Anna Maria Vlaspoel, Maastricht,Gemeente Maastricht,Limburg,Nederland († 1958)
• Adriaantje Folkers, Engelbert, Noorddijk,, Groningen, Nederland († 1963)
• Antheunis Sinke, Serooskerke, Zeeland, NL
• van Wijk, Zoelen (GL) († 1870)
• Alida Anna Klasina Jaring, Den Helder (N-H) († 1923)
• "Joseph" Albert Marie de Potter d'Indoye, Gand, Belgique († 1917)
• Antonia Maria Marcelissen, Oosterhout
• Antoinetta Gerardina Pieternella de Wit, Maastricht († 1870)
• Alidor Vandendorpe, Hooglede,8830,West-Vlaanderen,België

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• Ammerensia HUIJSMAN (35), Sprang Capelle
• Aline SEGERS (0), Roubaix,59100,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• "Pauline" Julie Marie Gonthyn (44), Gand, Belgique
• Anna Dijkshoorn (Dijcxhoorn, Dijckshoorn, Dykshoorn, Dijkxhoorn) (72), Vlaardinger-Ambacht, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Josina Bogaert (73), Hulst Nederland
• amerensia HUIJSMAN (49), sprang
• Alexander van der BURGT (0), Berlaar,Antwerpen,Belgie
• Aloys David Clauw (0), Klerken
• van Wijk (0), Zoelen (GL)

• 1861 » Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress († 1931)
• 1868 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author († 1927)
• 1869 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan († 1932)
• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1872 » Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general († 1922)
• 1872 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1934)
• 1879 » Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist († 1952)
• 1879 » Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer († 1929)

• 1840 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)

• 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 28 » The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• July 1 » The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
• July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
• October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
• November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

The temperature on May 6, 1870 was about 12.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.