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• Anne (Martens) Kloetstra, Bergum († 1931)
• ADELE MARIE GOBERT, Sint-Denijs
• Akke K Ottema, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands († 1901)
• Anne De Jong, Drachten,Friesland,Netherlands († 1877)
• Adriaan Smulders, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant)
• Allegonda Aleida Zinkhaan, Gemeente Arnhem, Nederland
• Abinidi ABRAHAM, Kanosh († 1942)
• Albert Jacobus Bruin, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Lynn Stidham († 1938)
• Albert Boesjes, Dalen († 1945)

• Anna Catharina van Loon (72), Bergen op Zoom
• Bartholomeus Antonius Neerscholten (0), Reeuwijk
• Agnes Gertsen (51), Huissen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Dobber (5), den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Heinen (38), Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafjen Koops KLAREN (77)
• KOOMEN (0), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Markx (Merckx) (81), Zaltbommel
• Afke \ Aafke] Koops Klazen (77), Aengwirden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Wilken (0), Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1863 » William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer († 1892)
• 1869 » William Strunk Jr., American author and educator († 1946)
• 1872 » Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer († 1936)
• 1872 » William Duddell, English physicist and engineer († 1917)
• 1873 » Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1873 » Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands († 1954)
• 1875 » Joseph Weil, American con man († 1976)
• 1876 » T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland († 1921)
• 1878 » Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect († 1944)
• 1879 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)

• 1819 » the Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (b. 1752)
• 1839 » Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)
• 1860 » Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (b. 1800)
• 1863 » John F. Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)
• 1884 » Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (b. 1811)
• 1905 » John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)
• 1912 » Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1925 » Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander (b. 1887)

• 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.
• March 16 » The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
• July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
• July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
• July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
• August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
• October 2 » A plebiscite held in Rome, supports annexation of city of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy.

The temperature on July 1, 1870 was about 18.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.