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• Abbetjes Meindert Ras, Urk, Gemeente Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1936)
• Abbetjes Meindert Willemsz Ras, Urk († 1936)
• Assendelft 321A
• Aart van den Ende, Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Albertus Meenderman, Nieuw Buinen
• Aaltje Lusseveld, Den Ham
• Adriaan Tak, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1871)
• Aart Ruiter, Ermelo-Telgt († 1955)
• Passenier, Domburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1871)
• Adelina Maria VAN DER FRAENEN, Denderleeuw,9470,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1949)

• Amelia Sophia Vangheluwe (70), Staden,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Adrianus Oomenzoon (78), Zwaluwe
• Passenier (0), Domburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albertina Schoenmaekers (63), Roermond
• Aaldert DEKKER (51), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Blaqueire (79), Rotterdam
• Anna Sibilla Pelzer (82), Wissel, Bürgermeisterei Grieth, Rheinprovinz, Preußen (jetzt: Kalkar-Wissel, Nordrhein-Westfalen)
• de Graaf (70), Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Adelheid Hoge (64), Altenberge
• Alfred Hawn (25)

• 1845 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1936)
• 1847 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph († 1931)
• 1855 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)

• 1829 » Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)
• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)

• 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 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• 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 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
• 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 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.

The temperature on February 11, 1871 was about -11.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.