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• Aaltje Jansen († 1957)
• Anna Jacoba de Leeuw, Rotterdam († 1905)
• Adrianus Stephanus van der Meijden, Veendam († 1871)
• Aaltjen Jansen, Binnenheurne onder W. of V († 1938)
• +Johanna Elisabetha Rachel, Zuzenhausen-Sinsheim-BW († 1871)
• Anje Visscher, Uithuizermeeden († 1899)
• Anna Maria Heijblom, Ginneken en Bavel († 1952)
• Adrianus Jozeph Soeters, Schoonhoven, Nederland († 1872)
• Anna Cornelia van Starrenburg, Vlaardinger-Ambacht († 1872)

• Cornelis Visser (0), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Andreas Hermanus RIDDERHOF (0), Sint Annaland
• Anna Maria Konincks (19), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Leonardus BERTELS (0), Haarlemmermeer
• van BOVEN (0), Krabbendijke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Wansink (56), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aneline Maria Joosten (0), Dordrecht, Nederland
• CIJNTJE ROOS (46), SCHEVENINGEN (GEMEENTE 'S-GRAVENHAGE)
• Antje Tuinstra (1), Sneek, Friesland, Netherlands
• Amelia COREVITS (72), Waregem

• 1864 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast († 1919)
• 1865 » Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1865 » James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian († 1935)
• 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)
• 1877 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1910)
• 1877 » Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1963)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

• 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 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
• July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
• July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
• 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.
• 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 27, 1871 was about 19.0 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.