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• Adriaan Labrujère, Domburg, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1929)
• Aloysius Petrus Felix Maria van HASSELT, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1930)
• Adrianus Hopman, Egmond aan Zee (NL) († 1862)
• Adriana Maria van Gestel, Ginneken en Bavel († 1920)
• Albert van der Meer, Sint Annen († 1902)
• Anna Maria Josepha Leopoldine van Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach († 1868)
• Aloys Petrus Felix Maria van Hasselt, Bergen op Zoom, N.B († 1930)
• Anna Maria Kurtz, Luthersburg Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1926)
• Antonetta Johanna BEKS, Vught (NL/NB) († 1933)
• Antje Boersma, Kooten, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1946)

• Agneta Wilhelmina Johanna Rühle von Lilienstern (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amel Harms Amels (70), Groningen
• Amel Amels (70), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Amel Harms Amels (70), Groningen
• Albert Jacobs Meesters (58), Zwartsluis
• Ann Page (75), Blakesley, South Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England
• Anje Sijlvesters (72), Bierum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Margaretha - Anna Helena - Helena - Anna Maria - Maria Helena Felix (70), Altharen, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Aaltje Vlogman, Westerbork
• Anje SIJLVESTERS (71), Bierum, Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland

• 1850 » Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer and educator († 1927)
• 1851 » Leopoldo Alas, Spanish author, critic, and academic († 1901)
• 1854 » Charles Sumner Tainter, American engineer and inventor († 1940)
• 1862 » Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English ornithologist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs († 1933)
• 1868 » John Moisant, American pilot and engineer († 1910)
• 1871 » Lorne Currie, French-English sailor († 1926)
• 1872 » C. B. Fry, English cricketer, footballer, educator, and politician († 1956)
• 1873 » Howard Garis, American author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories († 1962)
• 1873 » Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1956)
• 1874 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)

• 1840 » Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1781)
• 1873 » Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1783)
• 1875 » 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)
• 1878 » Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
• 1890 » Crowfoot, Canadian tribal chief (b. 1830)
• 1891 » Nathaniel Woodard, English priest and educator (b. 1811)
• 1892 » Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Karl von Ditmar, Estonian-German geologist and explorer (b. 1822)
• 1906 » John Knowles Paine, American composer and educator (b. 1839)
• 1911 » Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1862)

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.
• February 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
• May 5 » Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
• 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.
• July 16 » American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
• September 4 » American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.

The temperature on April 25, 1862 was about 22.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.