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• Anna Maria Creusen, Laurensberg
• Anna (VI) de Rijk, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1871)
• Adriaantje Zwaan, Rijnsburg, Nederland
• Anne Driks Rodenhuis, Zweins († 1922)
• Anne Jans Duursma, Duurswoude, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1925)
• Antje Maria Loggen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Duermeijer, Rotterdam
• Antonius SCHOUTEN, Zevenhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1871)
• Anna Maria Matveld, Delfshaven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Alida Agina Bouland, Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1961)

• Arnoldus Mahee (55), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arij Aartsz Fonkert (74), Nieuw-Beijerland
• Arnoldus Mahie (55), Naaldwijk
• Adolf Prins (15), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arij Aartsz. Fonkert (74), Nieuw-Beijerland
• Bartje van der Weijden (0), Doorwerth
• Antonius van den Hurk, Erp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• bastiaan ANDEWEG (10), zuid beijerland
• Bastiaan ANDEWEG (10), Zuid-Beijerland
• Abraham ter Horst (23), Almelo

• 1857 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)
• 1868 » Sumner Paine, American target shooter († 1904)
• 1869 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer († 1944)
• 1877 » Robert Hamilton, Scottish international footballer († 1948)
• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)

• 1832 » Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (b. 1769)
• 1835 » John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)

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 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
• April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
• September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
• October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
• October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
• 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?".

The temperature on May 13, 1871 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 60%.