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• Adriaan van de Par, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1941)
• Anna Catharina van DEN EEDEN, Oudenbosch,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Adriana Wilhelmina Wittermans, Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland († 1874)
• Adriaan Knoop, Made en Drimmelen, Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1948)
• Adrianus Jeroen GORDIJN, Noordwijk († 1925)
• Adriana LAGERWIJ (LAGERWEIJ), Cothen,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1959)
• Anna REUVER, de, Loenen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1963)
• Anna de Reuver, Loenen aan de Vecht († 1963)
• Albert Elijah DEAR, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia († 1872)
• Abraham Visser, Rozenburg, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1894)

• Antje Eelman (5), Texel
• Aaltje HEMERIK (0), Leiden
• Allert Douwes Bekius (62), Beetgum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Allert Douwes Bekius (62), Beetgum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Noordermeer (69), Voorburg
• Antje Brammerd Brammer (52), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida (Hero Gerard) Beekhuis (65), Doniawerstal
• Aleida Beekhuis (65), Doniawerstal
• Aafke Jakobs Huizinga (66), Loppersum
• Antje Eelman (5), Zevenhuizen (Texel)

• 1860 » Joseph Cook, English-born Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia († 1947)
• 1861 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I († 1931)
• 1862 » Paul Adam, French author († 1920)
• 1863 » Felix Calonder, Swiss soldier and politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1952)
• 1863 » Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor († 1945)
• 1863 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears († 1914)
• 1869 » Frank Laver, Australian cricketer († 1919)
• 1873 » Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet († 1947)
• 1878 » Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer († 1942)
• 1879 » Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic († 1972)

• 1837 » Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (b.1814)
• 1842 » Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
• 1874 » Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815)
• 1879 » Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
• 1899 » Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• 1902 » Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
• 1906 » Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• 1913 » Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)

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 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
• 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.
• June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
• July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
• 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 December 7, 1871 was about -8.0 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.