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• Alexandrina Freiin van Leykam, Elsum (Dld)
• Amerentinus van Keulen, Kampen
• Adriana van de Sande, Hulsel, Reusel-De Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1956)
• Anna Catharina Breugelmans, Mol
• Adriaan Elise Dirk Vreede, Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1935)
• Alida Pieternella Looijen, Monster († 1862)
• Alphonse Jules MALEVEZ, Malonne, 92082, Namur, Belgique
• Adrianus Antonius Vermeulen, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred William DAVIDGE, Marylebone, St Pancras, Middlesex († 1935)
• Arentje Barneveld, Zalk en Veecaten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1895)

• Anna Maria Kirkels (77), Nederweert, 6031, Nederland
• Huberta Zijlmans (63), Roosendaal
• Adrianus Rovers (59), Made en Drimmelen
• Arie de Jong, Texel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Beckers (69), Scherpenseel (DL
• Arie Jacobus de Jong (44), De Cocksdorp
• van Maanen (0), Velp (Rheden)
• Adrianus Bouwman (82), Gouda
• Adriana Schellingshout (67), Kralingen
• Adrianus Roovers (59), Made en Drimmelen

• 1837 » James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist († 1915)
• 1864 » Arthur Collins, American baritone singer († 1933)
• 1867 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author († 1957)
• 1870 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist († 1937)
• 1871 » Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist, composer, and conductor († 1927)
• 1873 » Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)
• 1878 » Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor († 1936)
• 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
• 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)

• 1823 » Ann Radcliffe, English author (b. 1764)
• 1837 » Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
• 1849 » Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (b. 1797)
• 1862 » Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
• 1864 » Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
• 1871 » Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (b. 1797)
• 1873 » Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
• 1878 » Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1891 » Marie Louise Andrews, American story writer and journalist (b. 1849)
• 1897 » Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)

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.
• 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 5 » As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
• 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.
• July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
• September 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on February 7, 1862 was about -2.2 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%.