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• Anna Catharina Oostvogels, Zundert (Zundert) (Noord-Brabant) († 1947)
• Anna Klugkist, Groningen († 1946)
• Anna Klasina Felix, Boskoop († 1919)
• Alfons Simoens, Asper († 1954)
• Adrianus Luijpen, Dreumel
• Adrianus Josephus Gielen, Brecht, Provincie Antwerpen
• Mink († 1871)
• Aagje Liefting, Egmond-Binnen († 1961)
• Andries Jacobus de VOS, Vlissingen (NL) († 1944)
• Ada Sarah Jane Greentree, St. Albans, Hawkesbury (reg'd Macdonald River), NSW, AU († 1946)

• *Henricus Cornelius Wilhelmus Tulleners (0), Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Maria Specken (83), Altenberge (D.)
• Anna Maria Van Tilborgh (71), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arisje Willemsdr Hartman (66), Hoevelaken
• Antje Hanses van der Wal (88), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Haring (66), Nieuwer Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aeldert Merkus (58), Afferden, Druten
• Adriana Haring (66), Nieuwer-Amstel (thans Amstelveen), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthoinetta Christina Verhoest (71), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alida van den Brink (0), Utrecht zie Utrecht-Utrecht

• 1862 » Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager († 1956)
• 1865 » Charles Sands, American golfer and tennis player († 1945)
• 1868 » Jaan Tõnisson, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941?)
• 1869 » Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1931)
• 1869 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright († 1935)
• 1872 » Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist († 1961)
• 1874 » Franz Schmidt, Austrian cellist, pianist, and composer († 1939)
• 1876 » Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer († 1944)
• 1878 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper († 1925)
• 1883 » Marcus Hurley, American cyclist († 1941)

• 1828 » William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
• 1853 » Manuel María Lombardini, Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
• 1870 » Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836)
• 1880 » George Eliot, English novelist and poet (b. 1819)
• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)

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.
• March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
• April 1 » The 3rd Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
• May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 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.
• 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?".

The temperature on December 22, 1871 was about 4.9 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.