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• Anna Maria van Geffen, Herpen († 1943)
• Anatholia Schneider, Noorderwijk, Herentals, België († 1875)
• Anna Maria ter Steeg
• Alexander van Wettum, Hilversum († 1871)
• Adriana Barel, Capelle († 1873)
• Agnes Geertruida van der Veldt, Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Pietersdr Kramer, Urk († 1942)
• Addison Chestnut Todd ****, Dogwood Neck, Horry, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1953)
• Anna Maria van der Meer, Naaldwijk
• Antje Kramer, Urk († 1942)

• Aaltje van Eijk (0), Maarsseveen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriana Kamerman (80), Veen, Nederland
• Aaltjen Apelloo (28), Zwolle
• Anselmus ADRIAENS (45), Veerle Belgie
• Aafje (Avie) Groot (70), Oosterblokker
• Aaltje Van Eijk (0), Maarsseveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Schut (1), Meppel
• Aphina Lubberdina Leith (0), Sappemeer
• Adriana Pullens (12), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Eerelman (0), Groningen

• 1856 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1930)
• 1862 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)
• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1886 » Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist († 1913)
• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)
• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)

• 1809 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

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.
• February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
• March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
• April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
• July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.

The temperature on April 26, 1871 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 67%.