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• Aaltje Penning, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1949)
• Allegonda van Lent, Lithoijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1872)
• Aagje Kuijter, Zevenhuizen (Texel)
• Antonie Burmanjer, Delfshaven
• Agatha Baptista van Sasse van IJsselt, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1958)
• Antonia van Straten, Hoogland, Utrecht, NL († 1881)
• Wisselink, Wisch († 1941)
• Anthonie Hoogerwerf, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Aagje Kuijter (Kuiter), Zevenhuizen (Texel) († 1887)
• Antonia Adriana VISSERS, Dinteloord († 1901)

• Agnes de Swart (47), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Bastiana Willemina van Walraven (68), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria DUIJZER (45), Brakel (Gld.)
• Aaltje van Woerkom (0), Vrijenban, Netherlands
• Alphonse François Joseph Delomez (4), Lestrem, Nord, France
• Alexandre Louis de Finance (79), Lachalade, Meuse, France
• Albert Jans Bekman (1), Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arien Hendrik Tap (60), Zetten
• Antonie Fransen (0), Vlierden
• Angenes (Angenita) de S(Z)wart (47), Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1868 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author († 1927)
• 1869 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan († 1932)
• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1872 » Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general († 1922)
• 1872 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1934)
• 1879 » Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist († 1952)
• 1879 » Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer († 1929)
• 1880 » Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator († 1959)

• 1840 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)

• 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 18 » Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
• 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.
• May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
• July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
• September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
• November 16 » The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.

The temperature on May 6, 1871 was about 12.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 54%.