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• Aagje Both, oud-beijerland (zuid holland) († 1863)
• adriaantje NAAKTGEBOREN, 's-gravendeel († 1903)
• Aaltje van Welsem, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1863)
• Abraham Rupke, Haarlemmermeer († 1925)
• Adriana Maria Roline Collot d' Escury, Bennekom
• Aaltje Zuidema, Zuidbroek, Groningen, Netherlands († 1944)
• Adriana Johanna de Ruiter, Noord-Waddinxveen († 1875)
• Adriana Maria Roline Collot d´Escurij, Ede, Gld, NL († 1932)
• Adriana de Ligt, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1934)
• Agnes Harpur, Victoria, Australia

• Alida Smit (19), Lisse
• Anna Beatrix in het PANHUIS (70), Buchten
• Arend Frederik Wentink (89), Hummelo en Keppel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hoffenaar (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Egberts Waslander (58), Haskendijken
• Aagje Jans Bak (36), Krommeniehorn
• Albert Slegt (41), Landsmeer
• Aartje de HEER (0), Papendrecht
• Albert Slegt (41), Landsmeer
• Amalie Rompel (16), Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein

• 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. 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.
• February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
• March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
• 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.
• September 8 » Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
• September 13 » American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
• November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

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%.