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• Albertus de Bree, Broek op Langedijk († 1915)
• Aartje Maria Kruijt, Heukelum († 1954)
• Diepenhorst, ameide (zuid holland)
• Aaltje Scheper, Lhee († 1872)
• Aaltien Zwiep, Zwinderscheveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1951)
• Adele Marie Nollet, Beselare, West-Vlaanderen (B) († 1909)
• Aaltien ( Aaltje ) Zwiep, Zwinderscheveen (Oosterhesselen) († 1951)
• Aaltjen Menkveld, Gorssel,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1950)
• Aartje Maria Kruijt, Heukelom († 1954)
• Aaltien ( Aaltje ) Zwiep, Zwinderscheveen (Oosterhesselen) († 1951)

• Albertje Feiken (30), Musselkanaal
• abraham van delft (48), wildervank (groningen)
• Adrianus van Oort (37), Utrecht
• Adrien Clément Jérôme GRÉGOIRE (70), Walsbets, 3401, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique
• Aaltje Huls (41), Staphorst
• Agrippa Nichols (90), Nortonville, Morgan County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Raaphorst (66), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Willems Stadman (62), Zwiggelte (Westerbork)
• Aloise Vanhove (4), Woumen
• Aart van den Oven (55), Velsen

• 1860 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author († 1895)
• 1863 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright († 1938)
• 1863 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist († 1945)
• 1864 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist († 1922)
• 1869 » George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1947)
• 1874 » Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer († 1949)
• 1877 » Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior († 1946)
• 1878 » Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint († 1903)
• 1880 » Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic († 1952)
• 1881 » Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland († 1966)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

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 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
• August 29 » Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
• October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
• October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
• 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 March 12, 1871 was about 14.3 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.