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• Alida Wilhelmina van der Waard, Leiden
• Alletta van Maren, Gameren († 1872)
• Rijke, de, Stavenisse gem. Tholen Zld. NL († 1871)
• Agnes Catherine O'Rourke
• Amelia Johanna Verhage, Groede, Zeeland, NL († 1871)
• Adam van Tooren, Amsterdam {NH}
• Alaberta van Wingerden, Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albinus VAN GYSEGEM, Hofstade († 1917)
• Achille Louis Jules SPILLEBEEN, Moorsele, Belgique († 1872)
• Andries Veltman, Irnsum († 1872)

• Rijke, de (0), Stavenisse gem. Tholen Zld. NL
• Aaltje van der Ploeg (51), Bedum, Nederland
• Angèle Guillemine Stéphanie Michel Dubois (23), Heer,Gemeente Maastricht,Limburg,Netherlands
• Albertus van de Bilt (66), Cothen
• Adriana Hubers (77), Zevenbergen, Nederland
• Anna Brigitta Brands (86), Munstergeleen, Nederland
• Scholten (0), Fluitenberg, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertus van de Bilt [Bildt] (66), Cothen
• Anthony Gustaaf de Geer (82), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Albert (Tijmens) De Vries (2), Aengwirden, Friesland, Nederland

• 1856 » Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia († 1920)
• 1866 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager († 1940)
• 1868 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer († 1952)
• 1873 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author († 1908)
• 1876 » G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic († 1962)
• 1878 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss († 1920)
• 1878 » Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator († 1951)
• 1884 » Robert J. Flaherty, German-Irish American director and producer († 1951)
• 1886 » Andy Ducat, English international footballer (forward and manager) and Cricketer († 1942)
• 1887 » Kathleen Clifford, American actress († 1962)

• 1820 » Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Antje
14. Neeltje
15. Jacoba
16. Elizabeth

• 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).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 18 » Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
• January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
• March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
• December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

The temperature on February 16, 1871 was about 5.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.