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• Anna Mechtildis Relouw, Meerlo († 1895)
• Alberta Petronella van Meegen, Nijmegen († 1939)
• Anna Maria Goossens, Deurne en Liessel († 1906)
• Adriana Petronella van den Berg, Zwollerkerspel († 1956)
• Anna Maria van der Linden, Utrecht († 1872)
• Adrianus Theodorus Johannes de Rooij, Den Bosch († 1948)
• Abraham de Bree, Biggekerke, Zeeland, Nederland († 1912)
• Albertus Lokken, Wildervank († 1876)
• Annabelle Britton, Keelersburg,Wyoming,Pennsylvania († 1941)
• Adriana de Looijer, Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1879)

• Antoon Looijs (1), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van den Heuvel (3), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Alijda Maria Verhaar (0), Acquoy, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Loon (82), Essen, Antwerpen, België
• Antoon Looijs (1), Arnhem
• Abraham Hallman HUNSBERGER (30)
• ALPHONSE - PAUL HENNION (0), Roncq, 59223
• Adriana Maria Sophia Hoogenbergh (0), Deventer
• Anna Maria Sengers (0), Barwoutswaarder, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• *Hendrik Kemp (0), Oudewater, Utrecht, NL

• 1855 » John Hodges, Australian cricketer († 1933)
• 1858 » Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1930)
• 1860 » Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player († 1939)
• 1870 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer († 1912)
• 1874 » Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg († 1953)
• 1877 » Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and judge († 1954)
• 1878 » Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and author († 1955)
• 1881 » Aleksander Aberg, Estonian wrestler († 1920)
• 1884 » Hermann Wlach, Austrian-Swiss actor († 1962)
• 1885 » Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer († 1958)

• 1851 » Lorenz Oken, German botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (b. 1779)
• 1854 » Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1798)
• 1868 » Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1815)
• 1886 » Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1843)
• 1890 » John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)
• 1892 » Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)
• 1903 » Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889)
• 1919 » Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)

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.
• January 3 » In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
• February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• 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".
• 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 August 11, 1871 was about 28.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 45%.