About the day » Friday August 25, 1871Calender converter

• Aagje Klein, Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1906)
• Adriana de Graaff, Hoeven, Nederland († 1937)
• Aaltjen Klein Obbink, Oosterwijk (Zelhem)
• Albert Christian Lostroh, Kingsford, South Australia, Australia
• Alexandra Mary Elizabeth Wood, Powderham, Devon, England († 1965)
• Albert Danker, Vlagtwedde († 1875)
• Anna Catherine Elizabeth Henne, Summerville, Charleston, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1874)
• Kruls, Leiden († 1871)
• Alfons Frans Aloys Muylaert, Temse
• Amélia Faro Fleury, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

• Rüten (0), Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Aafje Koning (0), Nieuwendam
• Arij Corneliszoon Ketting (58), Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Kooi (1), Heinenoord
• Kruls (0), Leiden
• Aaltien Eilander (1), Zwolle
• Aafje Piebes de Groot (36), Minnertsga
• Antonetta Swinkels (51), Veldhoven, Nederland
• Aaltje van den Berg (60), Maarssen
• Aaltje Van Den Berg (60), Maarssen

• 1845 » Ludwig II of Bavaria († 1886)
• 1850 » Charles Richet, French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1867 » James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany († 1951)
• 1869 » Tom Kiely, British-Irish decathlete († 1951)
• 1877 » Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation († 1965)
• 1878 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager († 1935)
• 1882 » Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish journalist and politician, 2nd President of Ireland († 1966)
• 1889 » Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales († 1969)
• 1891 » David Shimoni, Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator († 1956)
• 1893 » Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist († 1962)

• 1822 » William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738)
• 1867 » Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)
• 1882 » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Zinovios Valvis, Greek lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)
• 1892 » William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1808)
• 1900 » Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
• 1904 » Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)

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.
• May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• June 10 » Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
• September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
• October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
• 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 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

The temperature on August 25, 1871 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.