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• Abraham Rupke, Haarlemmermeer († 1925)
• Adriana Maria Rolina baronesse Collot d'Escurij Callot d'Escury, Bennekom (Ede)
• Adriana Maria Rolinde barones Collot d'Escury, Huize Wester Eng, Ede († 1932)
• Gijsbert Ba(a)ten, Steenbergen († 1862)
• adriaantje NAAKTGEBOREN, 's-gravendeel († 1903)
• Adriana Johanna de Ruiter, Noord-Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1862)
• , DEN HAAG, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1862)
• Ann Mehitable Alden, Toulon, Stark, Illinois
• Aaltje van Welsen, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1863)
• Adriana Maria Roline Collotr d'Escury, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1932)

• Aafke Egberts Waslander (58), Haskendijken
• Albert De Haan (1)
• Anna Beatrix in het PANHUIS (70), Buchten
• Aagje Bak (36), Krommeniehorn
• Antonius Saat (10), Huissen
• Anna Elisabetha VAN DINGENEN (74), Tongerlo
• Aartje de HEER (0), Papendrecht
• Arie Plak (5), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart TOOM (0), Leerbroek
• Anna Maria Boksebeld (2), Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1845 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1936)
• 1847 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph († 1931)
• 1855 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)

• 1795 » Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (b. 1740)
• 1829 » Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)
• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Klaas
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Aaltje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Grietje
12. Antje
13. Trijntje
14. Neeltje
15. Mary
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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
• April 29 » American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
• May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
• June 5 » As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
• July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
• August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.

The temperature on February 11, 1862 was about 3.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.