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• ALPHONSUS LUDOVICUS VAN BRANDE, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1957)
• Adriana Ouden den, Zuid-Beijerland, ZH, Nederland († 1871)
• Alfard I Fettig, Mothern, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
• Anna Hubertina van Beesel (Besel), Tegelen († 1874)
• Anne Mulder, Opsterland
• Amo Doornbos, Slochteren, Siddeburen († 1886)
• Abraham de Jong, Rotterdam
• Aaltje Klein, Groot-Ammers († 1947)
• Aafje Kuys, Castricum, Nederland († 1957)
• Albertus Franciscus Habraken, Gestel († 1936)

• Anje Alderts Hoeksema, Loppersum
• Alida de Lange (6), 's-Heeraartsberg en Bergambacht
• (6), Zerkegem, België
• Adam Barton (0), Maków (Gmina Pietrowice Wielkie, Powiat Raciborski, Województwo Śląskie)
• Anna Catharina Straver (0)
• Albert Albers
• Adriana de Reuver (40), Houten
• Anna_Catharina van der Roest (54), Amsterdam
• Abeltje Nap (2), Nieuwolda, Scheemda, Groningen, Nederland
• Amelia Sophia DECOENE (63), Langemark,8920,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie

• 1861 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress († 1955)
• 1872 » Maurice Gamelin, French general († 1958)
• 1873 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver († 1944)
• 1873 » Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1875 » Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician († 1921)
• 1876 » Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist († 1941)
• 1878 » Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) († 1932)
• 1878 » Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist († 1968)
• 1880 » Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic († 1968)
• 1884 » Maxwell Perkins, American editor († 1947)

• 1839 » Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 » José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 » Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
• 1852 » Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 » José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1863 » Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)
• 1884 » Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)
• 1898 » Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1906 » Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
• 1908 » Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)

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.
• May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
• December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

The temperature on September 20, 1871 was about 15.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.