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• Aafje Ravensbergen, Rijnsburg († 1871)
• Aart van der Hoek, goudswaard († 1934)
• Aage RAS, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1873)
• Adriaan Goudzwaard, Poortvliet, Zeeland, Nederland († 1948)
• * Pieter Westerhoud, Hei-en Boeicop († 1936)
• Aart Tomassen, Putten († 1950)
• Allert Haringa, Makkum (Wonseradeel) († 1949)
• "Marie Thérèse" Joséphine Elisabeth de Bizemont, Huisseau-sur-Mauves, Loiret, France († 1936)
• Anna Catharina Dierckx, Mol, België
• Agnes Struijvé, Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1871)

• Arien van der Wiel (76), Woudenberg
• Ambrosius de Jong (61), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Van Bouwel (82), Pulle
• Antoon Rutjes (0), Beuningen
• Ariana van der Kas (46), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnoldus Heijermans (62)
• Arien van der Wiel (76), Woudenberg
• Albertus Wildschut (2), IJsselstein
• Aaltje Hendriks de Vries (88), Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Steenks (0), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1855 » John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company († 1926)
• 1857 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist († 1936)
• 1862 » David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician and academic († 1943)
• 1862 » Frank Shuman, American inventor and engineer († 1918)
• 1872 » Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik Parliament († 1957)
• 1872 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic († 1946)
• 1876 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1878 » Rutland Boughton, English composer († 1960)
• 1880 » Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Mexican politician († 1967)
• 1889 » Claribel Kendall, American mathematician (d.1965)

• 1820 » Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
• 1833 » Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (b. 1757)
• 1837 » John Field, Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1866 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)

• 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 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• 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?".

There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.