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• Adriana Maaike Rijsdijk, Ridderkerk († 1879)
• Anna Cornelia van EEKELEN, Halsteren (Nl) († 1889)
• Alphonse Petrus Joseph Koster, Aalst († 1939)
• de Bresser, Mierlo, Nederland
• Annie Forbes CHEYNE, Mt Eden, Auckland, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand († 1948)
• Anders Andersen, Hurup sogn Thisted amt
• Anton Henrij de Boer, .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Alphonse Hubert Antonius Bakker, Nijmegen, Provincie Gelderland, Nederland († 1944)
• Antonius Jacobus CLAESSENS, Antwerpen
• van den Burg, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Adriaan Francois (0), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Adriaan Francois (0), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Aaltje Hendriks Schonewille (79), Hoogeveen
• Alina Maria Oosterlinck (0), Aalst
• Adriaan Middelkoop (85), Almkerk
• Aart Baas (1), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Veen (1), Noordbroek, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aaltje Hendriks Schonewille (79), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Schonewille (79), Hoogeveen
• Adèlaïde Josèph Tilman (55), Denison, Verenigde Staten

• 1850 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician († 1908)
• 1866 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China († 1925)
• 1872 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer († 1947)
• 1881 » Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1881 » Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect († 1948)
• 1886 » Ben Travers, English author and playwright († 1980)
• 1886 » Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer († 1975)
• 1889 » DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest († 1981)
• 1890 » Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater († 1974)
• 1892 » Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor and actor († 1958)

• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
• 1916 » Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
• 1933 » F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
• 1933 » John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)
• 1939 » Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (b. 1890)
• 1946 » Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (b. 1875)

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 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 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
• March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.

The temperature on November 12, 1871 was about 2.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.