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• Arend Van De Wetering, Warmond, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1952)
• Ann Annie Elizabeth Buckley, Reid, Tyendinaga, Hastings, ONT, Canada
• Adrianus Adolf Suurmeijer, Wildervank († 1935)
• Antonet van der Struijk, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1887)
• Maria Josepha Paulina Schellekens, Strijp († 1960)
• Anna van der Velden, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Schipper, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Meijer, leeuwarden
• Aart Pluimers, Ede († 1872)
• Anna Maria Barbara Poulissen, Goirle

• Antje Hartenrot (70), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Baukje Jacobs de Vries (12), Hollum, Ameland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jooren (1), Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe
• Aafje Visser (61), Heemskerk
• Anna Theresia Labaere, Zarren
• Aaltien van Zanden (34), Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna van Putten (4), Hilversum
• Adrianus van Delft (78), Middelburg
• Albertje Dijkema (0), Schildwolde, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaantje Radewalt (0), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1860 » Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer († 1940)
• 1864 » Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1867 » Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator († 1944)
• 1868 » Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright († 1925)
• 1869 » Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1872 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient († 1963)
• 1879 » Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist († 1966)
• 1880 » Archie Hahn, American sprinter, football player, and coach († 1955)
• 1880 » Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary († 1961)
• 1883 » Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and illustrator († 1908)

• 1851 » James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (b. 1789)
• 1852 » Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
• 1852 » Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (b. 1812)
• 1862 » Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (b. 1834)
• 1862 » Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
• 1879 » Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (b. 1808)
• 1891 » Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817)
• 1898 » William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857)
• 1901 » William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)
• 1905 » Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)

• 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.
• May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
• 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).
• August 29 » Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
• September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
• 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 September 14, 1871 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.