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• Adriana van Kuyck, Hoeven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia van Voorst, Voorthuizen
• Ambrose Penny, Trinity North, British Colony of Newfoundland († 1913)
• Adriaan Koole, Wissenkerke († 1870)
• Adriana Verweij, Mijdrecht († 1917)
• Adrianus Van Ekelenburg, Abbenbroek, Bernisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1920)
• Alida Maria CORNELISSE, Amsterdam
• Adrianus van den Heuvel, Bakel en Milheeze († 1870)
• Anna Maria Catharina Haselhoff, Weseke, Borken, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Albert Koopman, Vledder († 1908)

• Aantje Kok (71), Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis den Heijer (0), Scheveningen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aimé Amand Alfred VANDAMME (1), Zegerscappel, 59666, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, FRANCE
• Arie Mollenbeek (0), Beemster
• Abel Geerts Doedens (Does) (84), Taarlo, Nederland
• Adrianus Kazenbroot (0), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• de Lijster (0), Ridderkerk, South Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Gesina Krieger, Germantown, Ill
• Annigje van Wingerden (35), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Dam (1), Haskerland

• 1850 » Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic († 1926)
• 1856 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia († 1919)
• 1860 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer († 1935)
• 1863 » Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist († 1922)
• 1867 » Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1947)
• 1871 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar († 1929)
• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)
• 1886 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright († 1964)
• 1887 » Rupert Brooke, English poet († 1915)
• 1890 » Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club († 1974)

• 1835 » Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1767)
• 1839 » Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (b. 1763)
• 1857 » Eugène Sue, French author and politician (b. 1804)
• 1866 » Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)

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.
• August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
• August 24 » The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
• September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
• September 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
• 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 August 3, 1870 was about 24.1 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.