About the day » Saturday March 25, 1871Calender converter

• Adriaan Simpelaar, Zoutelande († 1940)
• Alida Sjouwerman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Achille Locquet, Avelgem, Belgium († 1946)
• Adriana SINKE, Kloetinge, Zeeland, Nederland († 1942)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth van Middelkoop, Soerabaja, Indonesia († 1892)
• Anna Maria van der Wielen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1945)
• Aloisius Hintzen, Echt, Limburg, Nederland († 1928)
• Adriana Broses, Chaam († 1873)
• Anna Maria Bos, Assendelft, prov. Noord Holland († 1912)
• Aloisius Vandepitte, Hooglede

• Alexius van Leuven, Boschkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aart den Ouden (46), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Mulder, Weststellingwerf, Noordwolde
• Antonie Figee (1), Schiedam, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Albertus Cornelis van Duijkeren (47), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Brakkee (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Catharina Rutten (52), Gerdingen
• Antonia Johanna Meulenbeek (25), Utrecht
• Alida Gooijer (38), De Rijp
• Anna Maria Jonkergouw, Vught

• 1867 » Arturo Toscanini, Italian-American cellist and conductor († 1957)
• 1867 » Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor, designed Mount Rushmore († 1941)
• 1868 » Bill Lockwood, English cricketer († 1932)
• 1871 » Louis Perrée, French fencer († 1924)
• 1872 » Horatio Nelson Jackson, American race car driver and physician († 1955)
• 1873 » Rudolf Rocker, German-American author and activist († 1958)
• 1874 » Selim Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician († 1957)
• 1876 » Irving Baxter, American jumper and pole vaulter († 1957)
• 1877 » Walter Little, Canadian politician († 1961)
• 1878 » František Janda-Suk, Czech discus thrower and shot putter († 1955)

• 1857 » William Colgate, English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (b. 1783)
• 1860 » James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (b. 1795)
• 1869 » Edward Bates, American politician and lawyer (b. 1793)
• 1873 » Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter and illustrator (b. 1810)
• 1907 » Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
• 1914 » Frédéric Mistral, French lexicographer and poet, 1904 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American academic (b. 1832)
• 1918 » Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1918 » Peter Martin, Australian footballer and soldier (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 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
• 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.
• May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
• July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
• July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
• 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 25, 1871 was about 19.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.