About the day » Wednesday August 16, 1871Calender converter

• Albertus Gerardus Frensdorff, Strijen
• Adrianus Marinus Jacobus van der Heiden, Lexmond, Utrecht, Nederland († 1944)
• Alberdina Torlejj, Aengwirden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antoinette Marie Henriette Germaine Noemie 'Marie-Antoinette' de ROEST d'ALKEMADE OEM de MOESENBROECK, La Hulpe, Brabant, Belgie († 1966)
• Anna Maria Augusta Peters, Duiven, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida van der Lans, Lisse,Lisse,Zuid Holland,Nederland († 1878)
• Anna Maria Catharina van den Hof, Maastricht (Maastricht) (Limburg)
• Annemie Maria Gerritse, Houten
• Annie Jones, Alabama, United States († 1957)
• Anna M HOULE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada († 1957)

• Anna Maria van Bentveld (41), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wols (8), Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew J. Kepler (64), East Liberty, OH
• Assineth Wynn (57), Clinton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Almira Harlow White (36), Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Beijer (0), Heenvliet
• Adrianus van der Heijden (79), heinenoord (zuid holland)
• Barbara Herz (0), Niederlahnstein, Lahnstein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Anna Helena Geertruida Camphuis (20), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Dingemansz Van Der HEIDEN (79), Heinenoord

• 1858 » Arthur Achleitner, German author († 1927)
• 1860 » Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet and author († 1887)
• 1860 » Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer († 1938)
• 1862 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach († 1965)
• 1864 » Elsie Inglis, Scottish surgeon and suffragette († 1917)
• 1865 » Mary Gilmore, Australian socialist, poet and journalist († 1962)
• 1868 » Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications († 1955)
• 1876 » Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator and stage designer († 1942)
• 1877 » Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer († 1935)
• 1882 » Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player († 1968)

• 1855 » Henry Colburn, English publisher (b. 1785)
• 1861 » Ranavalona I, Queen consort of Kingdom of Madagascar and then sovereign (b. 1778)
• 1878 » Richard Upjohn, English-American architect (b. 1802)
• 1886 » Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)
• 1887 » Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (b. 1837)
• 1888 » John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
• 1893 » Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
• 1900 » José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
• 1904 » Prentiss Ingraham, American soldier and author (b. 1843)

• 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.
• March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• 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.

The temperature on August 16, 1871 was about 22.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 51%.