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• Anna Gertrude Römer, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1948)
• Anna Hermina Alijda Slotboom, Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1948)
• Anje Klein, Uithuizermeeden († 1944)
• Anna van Oort, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland († 1863)
• Aaltien BARTELDS, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1862)
• Alexander Huysmans, Nossegem
• Aaltje Bartelds, Assen, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1862)
• Alida Kamphuis, Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland († 1930)
• Aaltien Bartelds, Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1862)
• Antje Poede, Odoorn, DR, Nederland († 1916)

• Anna Maria Butselaar (51), Amersfoort
• Antoon Milder- (32), Gendt, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis POST (7), Delft (Zuid-Holland, Nederland)
• "Klaasje"n Nagelaar (34), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arij Spruijt (43), Oudenhoorn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius van der Borg (77), Posterholt
• Ferwerda (0), Hallum
• Aartje DE BOEF (0), Brakel
• Aartje de Boef (0), Brakel
• Anna Maria Nöhles (79), Holt, Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

• 1840 » Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator († 1916)
• 1850 » Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue († 1931)
• 1851 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist († 1918)
• 1851 » Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company († 1923)
• 1860 » Justinien de Clary, French target shooter († 1933)
• 1871 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant († 1951)
• 1873 » James Harcourt, English character actor († 1951)
• 1875 » Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet and lawyer († 1909)
• 1879 » Paul Poiret, French fashion designer († 1944)
• 1882 » Holland Smith, American general († 1967)

• 1831 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
• 1873 » William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
• 1881 » William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
• 1887 » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
• 1899 » Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)
• 1912 » Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
• 1918 » Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)

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.
• January 31 » Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
• June 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
• 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.
• August 17 » American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.

The temperature on April 20, 1862 was about 11.1 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.