About the day » Wednesday January 11, 1871Calender converter

• Rook, Barsbeek, Ambt Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Schatteleijn, Den Haag († 1904)
• Adriana Louiza Kuijpers, Stiphout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1920)
• Aleseinia Locean McField
• Anna Maria Verhoeven, Driel
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• Agathe Maria Bonte, Delfshaven († 1955)
• Aart van Eck, Zandwijk († 1957)
• HENKENS JOZEF, NEEROETEREN († 1948)
• Adriana Dammes, Zevenhuizen (ZH NL)

• Adriana Luthera Agnes Lubbertina Van Heeckeren (17)
• Aaldert Hendriks Nijmeijer (0), Scherpenzeel, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Jacob Marinus Kegge (71), Tholen
• Adolph Harmanus Huijser (65), Nieuwer-Amstel, North Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Rijnen (59), Tilburg
• Adrianus Meeuwisse Visser (37)
• Abraham Cornelius Hopper (48), Brooklyn, New York City (Kings County) (New York)
• Anna Catharina Reijnen (59), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Abraham Salomon Kisch (0), Groningen
• Albert Siedzes Alma (27), Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1864 » Thomas Dixon, Jr., American minister, lawyer, and politician († 1946)
• 1867 » Edward B. Titchener, English psychologist and academic († 1927)
• 1868 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician († 1940)
• 1870 » Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor and educator († 1945)
• 1872 » G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic († 1956)
• 1873 » John Callan O'Laughlin, American soldier and journalist († 1949)
• 1875 » Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and academic († 1956)
• 1876 » Elmer Flick, American baseball player († 1971)
• 1876 » Thomas Hicks, American runner († 1952)
• 1878 » Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece († 1952)

• 1836 » John Molson, Canadian businessman, founded the Molson Brewing Company (b. 1763)
• 1843 » Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779)
• 1866 » Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818)
• 1866 » John Woolley, English minister and academic (b. 1816)
• 1867 » Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812)
• 1882 » Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1891 » Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809)
• 1902 » Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (b. 1862)
• 1904 » William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and philanthropist (b. 1842)

• 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.
• March 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
• 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.
• October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
• November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
• 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 January 11, 1871 was about 1.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.