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• Aart Koot, Jaarsveld,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1941)
• Abe Abes Postma, Berlikum, Frieland, Netherlands († 1937)
• Adam Lodewijk Heil, Beverwijk († 1862)
• Adam Herres, DEU
• Aike Hoeve, Wedde, Groningen, Nederland (GR) († 1906)
• Adriaan Frans Maria Lodewijk Joseph Theodore Vrijheer van Wrede († 1935)
• van de Giessen, vuren (gelderland)
• Adolf Nicolaas de Jong, Alblasserdam, Zuid Holland, Netherlands († 1862)
• Anna Cornelia de Hoog, Breukelen-Nijenrode († 1875)
• Amand Joseph Debruyne, Klerken († 1863)

• Aafje (Antje) ten Oever (57), Andijk
• Annechien Tingen (39), Assen/Kloosterveen
• Alice M. Van Fossan (0), Ohio, United States
• Adriana van Oostrom
• Adriaan Verlinde (51), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annegien Tingen (39), Kloosterveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annechien (Andries) Tingen (39), Kloosterveen (Assen)
• Agatha van Duijn (1), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf Schmidt (0), Banfe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Albert Keppels (10), Barchem (Lochem)

• 1854 » Ludwig Levy, German architect († 1907)
• 1857 » Clarence Darrow, American lawyer († 1938)
• 1858 » Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author († 1935)
• 1858 » Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee († 1962)
• 1863 » Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary († 1942)
• 1863 » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect († 1920)
• 1864 » Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author († 1916)
• 1874 » Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet († 1938)
• 1877 » Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician († 1950)
• 1879 » Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar († 1962)

• 1802 » Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
• 1832 » Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
• 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)
• 1873 » Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1898 » Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (b. 1826)
• 1906 » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1912 » Martha Ripley, American physician (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)

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. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• 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.
• May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• June 19 » The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• August 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
• December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
• December 26 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.

The temperature on April 18, 1862 was about 13.2 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.