About the day » Sunday December 28, 1862Calender converter

• Adrianus van Haaren, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1937)
• Adeline PATERNOTTE, Forchies-la-Marche, Henegouwen, België
• Aaltje Foppen, Harderwijk († 1869)
• Anna Koppes, Ursem, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1887)
• Akke Koops Bloembergen, Oostermeer († 1924)
• Adrianus Cornelis van RIJSWIJK, Heusden, Brabant-Septentrional, Hollande († 1895)
• Akke Bloembergen († 1924)
• Abraham Lare CUSTER
• Aaltje Bakker, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Netherlands († 1882)
• Anna Maria Peeters, Ottersum Gennep LI NL († 1940)

• Albert Horstra (53), Meppel
• Algegonda Wils (33), Lommel
• Anthonie van der Vossen (46), Lisse
• Algegonda Wils (33), Lommel
• Meuser (0), Odersberg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany
• Anthonius van der Vossen (46), Lisse, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriana CORNELISSEN (46), Axel, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annigje Spitse (0), Veendijk (Havelte)
• Aaltje van Davelaar, Veenendaal
• Anna Catharina Joannes Erkens (69), Delft, ZH, Nederland

• 1842 » Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American lieutenant and composer († 1891)
• 1856 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1865 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter († 1925)
• 1870 » Charles Bennett, English runner († 1949)
• 1882 » Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician († 1944)
• 1882 » Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter († 1931)
• 1887 » Werner Kolhörster, German physicist and academic († 1946)
• 1888 » F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1931)
• 1890 » Quincy Wright, American political scientist, historian, and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author and playwright († 1981)

• 1859 » Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (b. 1800)
• 1872 » James Van Ness, American lawyer and politician, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1808)
• 1890 » Dennis Miller Bunker, American painter (b. 1861)
• 1897 » William Corby, American priest and academic (b. 1833)
• 1900 » Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)
• 1907 » Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (b. 1812)
• 1913 » Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Turkish journalist and translator (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1918 » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet and journalist (b. 1865)

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 30 » The first American ironclad warship, the USSMonitor is launched.
• May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
• 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 » Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
• October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
• November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.

The temperature on December 28, 1862 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.