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• Adrianus Philippus Gordijn, Vlaardinger-Ambacht, Nederland
• Aleida Hoftijzer, Wisch
• Anna Catharina Danckers, Wuustwezel
• Allan MacDonald, Upper South River, Antigonish County, NS, Canada († 1917)
• Adrianus Philippus Gordijn, Vlaardinger-Ambacht († 1871)
• Aleida Mentink, Markelo-Kerspel Goor († 1930)
• Adriaan van der Moere, Wissenkerke, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1949)
• Hubertina Doveren, Huhnernest
• Abraham van Oosten, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Adriaan Johannis Adrianus Holdermans, Alblasserdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)

• Antje Rinzes (Rinses) Keegstra (85), Kollum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Van Loock (76), Putte, Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Aafje van Herk (11), Hillegersberg Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Antje Rinse Keegstra (85), Kollum
• Anna Cornelia Hagenaars (74), Oud en Nieuw Gastel (NL)
• Anna Elisabeth van LOOK (76), Putte, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Stokman (38), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
• Adrianus van den Boom (46), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Dirksz Stokman (38), Spaarnwoude
• Alida Elizabeth Pol (3), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1863 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1933)
• 1863 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer († 1929)
• 1865 » Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist and academic († 1940)
• 1868 » Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic († 1908)
• 1868 » Lucy Booth, English composer († 1953)
• 1874 » Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author († 1936)
• 1874 » Sidney Toler, American actor and director († 1947)
• 1876 » Nicola Romeo, Italian engineer and businessman († 1938)
• 1878 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor and director († 1954)
• 1886 » Erich Salomon, German-born news photographer († 1944)

• 1841 » Peter Chanel, French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1803)
• 1853 » Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (b. 1773)
• 1858 » Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)
• 1865 » Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (b. 1787)
• 1881 » Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)
• 1883 » John Russell, English hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
• 1902 » Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819)
• 1903 » Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist (b. 1839)
• 1905 » Fitzhugh Lee, American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Richard Butler, English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)

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.
• 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.
• October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
• November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
• 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 April 28, 1871 was about 9.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.