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• * Goverdina Boers, Vught († 1958)
• Anatole Louis Joseph POEILLON, Febvin-Palfart,62960,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1871)
• antonia Albert, steenbergen († 1921)
• Anna Maria Lucia Schiffer, Vaals
• Aafje Jacobsdr de Hart († 1940)
• Assendelft 102A
• Anna Bernardina Jacoba van den Rijk, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1871)
• adrianus adriaans, weert
• Abraham Hendrik Ledeboer, Almelo († 1948)
• Adriana Margaretha van Yperen, Vlaardingen († 1945)

• Anna Maria Josepha Vanwersch (52), Kerkrade, LI, Netherlands
• Albertus Aben (0), Cuijk &, Sint Agatha
• Anna Margaretha Schumacher (11), Tinnen, Haren (Ems)
• Andries Keimpes Koopmans (59), Beetgum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna van Opdorp (34), Klundert,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND
• Anna Elisabeth Grammet (66), Nieuwrode Vl.Brabant
• Adrianus Gerrit Hofman (52)
• Albert Joseph Ruijters (3), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Maria Josepha Vanwersch, Kerkrade (Kerkrade) (Limburg)
• Anna van Opdorp (34), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1857 » Edward Elgar, English composer and educator († 1934)
• 1857 » Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)
• 1861 » Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and manager († 1935)
• 1863 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1942)
• 1865 » Adelaide Casely-Hayford, Sierra Leone Creole advocate and activist for cultural nationalism († 1960)
• 1865 » George Lohmann, English cricketer († 1901)
• 1869 » Jack O'Connor, American baseball player and manager († 1937)
• 1875 » Charles Stewart Mott, American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan († 1973)
• 1878 » Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader († 1912)
• 1881 » Walter Egan, American golfer († 1971)

• 1806 » William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
• 1853 » Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (b. 1777)
• 1865 » Ner Middleswarth, American judge and politician (b. 1783)
• 1875 » Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1881 » Émile Littré, French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1882 » Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (b. 1807)
• 1901 » George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary and author (b. 1844)
• 1927 » Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b. 1889)
• 1933 » Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple jumper (b. 1878)

• 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 3 » In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
• January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
• September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.

The temperature on June 2, 1871 was about 12.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.