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• Aalt van den Bosch, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aart Pellen, Est en Opijnen
• Aart Pellen, Est en Opijnen
• Andries Jumelet, Bruinisse gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL († 1871)
• Abram Apon, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)
• Anna Andries, Parijs († 1946)
• Aaltje Peetoom, Sint Maarten († 1872)
• Albertus Arnoldus Johannes van der Valk, Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• van Buuren, Wierden († 1871)
• Aaltje Pasma, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland

• Albert Overmars (1), Deventer
• Alida Steenweg (68), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Schreppers (76), Tilburg (N.Br.)
• Adriana Schreppers (76), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Monasch (58)
• Adriana Johanna Doesburgh (75), Leerdam, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Broerse (24), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart (Roberts) Tellegen (67), Vaassen (Epe)
• Alida Adriana Berkelaar (3), Rotterdam
• Antje Tulen (35), Hillegom

• 1867 » Ernest Lewis, British tennis player († 1930)
• 1869 » Albert Roussel, French composer († 1937)
• 1869 » Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer († 1942)
• 1870 » Motobu Chōki, Japanese karateka († 1944)
• 1871 » Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist and politician († 1949)
• 1872 » Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist († 1962)
• 1873 » Joseph Rheden, Austrian astronomer († 1946)
• 1874 » Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Catholic Church († 1949)
• 1874 » Manuel María Ponce Brousset, President of Peru († 1966)
• 1878 » Albert Champion, French cyclist († 1927)

• 1861 » Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1862 » Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (b. 1803)
• 1865 » Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (b. 1806)
• 1866 » Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (b. 1798)
• 1868 » Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (b. 1834)
• 1871 » Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (b. 1798)
• 1872 » Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (b. 1812)
• 1873 » Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (b. 1824)
• 1882 » Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (b. 1806)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)

• 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.
• January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• 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.
• July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
• 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.
• 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).

The temperature on April 5, 1871 was about 9.3 °C. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.