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• Adriana Borgstein, Culemborg
• Adriana Anna Polak Daniëls († 1945)
• Anna Maria Schnoing, Nieuw Amsterdam / NL († 1896)
• Aaltje Stevens, Beilen († 1952)
• Amanda Theresia Hampel, Neuleutersdorf, Leutersdorf, Görlitz, Sachsen, Deutschland († 1949)
• Anneke den Dekker, Veen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus van Schaijk, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Stevens, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1952)
• Aagje Plomp, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuidplas, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1918)
• Aafje Bartelmiesdr Balder, Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1914)

• Adrianus Hubertus KRAAN (3), Rotterdam
• Adam Vermolen- (0), Abcoude, Nederland
• Adriana Haak (10), Rotterdam
• Agatha Maria van den Berg (4), Noordwijk-Binnen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Mus (Mees) (77), Schiedam
• Aagtje Sijmons van Duin (65), Egmond aan Zee
• Aagje van Duin (67), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Adriaantje Benjaminsdr Sterkman (65), Rhoon, Albrandswaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adam Vermolen (0), Abcoude-Baambrugge, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adam Vermolen (0), Abcoude-Baambrugge

• 1859 » Edmund Husserl, German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher († 1938)
• 1864 » Carlos Deltour, French rower and rugby player († 1920)
• 1867 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter and educator († 1908)
• 1869 » Harvey Cushing, American surgeon and academic († 1939)
• 1871 » Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator († 1925)
• 1874 » Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer († 1929)
• 1874 » Stanisław Taczak, Polish general († 1960)
• 1875 » Albert I of Belgium († 1934)
• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
• April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
• 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".
• 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 8, 1871 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 38%.