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• anna maria dorothea kuijsten, amsterdam († 1948)
• Aart van Leeuwen, Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Albertje VAN DER VEEN, Opende (Grootegast) Groningen Netherlands
• Veldhuisen, Purmerend († 1870)
• Aartje van Dijk, Kerk-Avezaath
• Amelia E Howell AlvinDCrockett, Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, Verenigde Staten († 1957)
• Adella De Groot, Meire
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• ? Kosters, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1870)
• Adriaan Volker, Sliedrecht († 1935)

• Auguste HERINCKX (38), Brussel (B)
• Anna Cornelia Koenraadt (42)
• Woldringh (0), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alexander Jones England (21), Middlesex, England
• Anna Catharina Hofmans (31), Lier, België
• Aaltje Aukes Bakker (76), Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Puts (15), Maasbracht
• Antonius Gerardus Bocxe (22), Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Aspasia Veneranda GHEERBRANT (56), Menen, 34027, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Andries Laurentius Bronkhorst (75), Arnhem, Nederland

• 1849 » Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer and poet († 1909)
• 1854 » Charles Tatham, American fencer († 1939)
• 1856 » Louis Sullivan, American architect and educator, designed the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building († 1924)
• 1869 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1930)
• 1875 » Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche († 1951)
• 1878 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player († 1960)
• 1882 » Johnny Douglas, English cricketer and boxer († 1930)
• 1887 » Frank Christian, American trumpet player († 1973)
• 1893 » Andrey Dikiy, Russian-American journalist, historian, and politician († 1977)
• 1897 » Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter († 1972)

• 1808 » John Montgomery, American merchant and politician (b. 1722)
• 1857 » John McLoughlin, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1784)
• 1866 » Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
• 1877 » Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1818)
• 1886 » William W. Snow, American lawyer and politician (b. 1812)
• 1893 » James Harrison, Scottish-Australian engineer, journalist, and politician (b. 1816)
• 1906 » Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1914 » Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1929 » John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (b. 1840)

• 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 28 » The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• May 14 » The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
• 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.
• August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• September 1 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.

The temperature on September 3, 1870 was about 17.9 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.