About the day » Tuesday August 22, 1871Calender converter

• Anna Maria Margaretha Dieteren, Schinnen († 1912)
• Adriaan Vader, Sint Laurens, Zeeland, NL († 1878)
• Alva Francis Avery, Avery Station, Indiana († 1930)
• Adriaan Bons, Oud-Alblas, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Dekker, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1873)
• Adrianus Vermeulen, Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1955)
• Alberta van de Worp, Heerde (Veessen) († 1909)
• Aaltje Nijman, Avereest
• Anna Mary KEUTER, Iowa City,Iowa,America († 1948)
• Anna Versteeg, De Werken en Sleeuwijk, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1944)

• Adriana Wolf de (33), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Andries van Sisseren (77), IJlst
• Aart v d Horst (73), Putten
• Adriana JONGEJAN (2), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Albert van de Klok (2), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aart van der Horst (73), Putten
• Alijda van Spanje (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Abraham Andriesse (0), Serooskerke, Zeeland, NL
• Alida~Andries van Sisseren (76), Drylts
• Albert Vennik (4), Limmen, Nederland

• 1860 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk († 1940)
• 1862 » Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer († 1918)
• 1867 » Charles Francis Jenkins, American inventor († 1934)
• 1867 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist († 1939)
• 1868 » Willis R. Whitney, American chemist († 1958)
• 1873 » Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher († 1928)
• 1874 » Max Scheler, German philosopher and author († 1928)
• 1880 » George Herriman, American cartoonist († 1944)
• 1880 » Gorch Fock, German author and poet († 1916)
• 1881 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman († 1949)

• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 » Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1888 » Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1817)
• 1891 » Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
• 1903 » Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Kate Chopin, American novelist and poet (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (b. 1846)
• 1914 » Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian bishop and academic (b. 1859)
• 1918 » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (b. 1868)

• 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 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 10 » Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
• 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).
• 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?".
• 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 22, 1871 was about 16.4 °C. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.