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• Albert Copes van Hasselt, Zutphen,Gemeente Zutphen,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Albertus Derksen, Gendt, Gelderland, Nederland († 1897)
• aart cornelis van der POEL, puttershoek († 1940)
• Alida van der Meer, 's Gravenzande († 1940)
• Age Haarsma, Leeuwarderdeel († 1927)
• Albert Derksen, Gendt, Gelderland, Nederland († 1897)
• Adriana Schrier, Waarde († 1946)
• Adriana Schrier, Waarde, Zeeland, Nederland († 1946)
• Alida van der Mark, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1928)
• Aagje Admiraal, Purmerend, prov. Noord Holland

• arie van GRONDELLE (0), 's-gravendeel
• August Philips Julius Vrijheer van Roman (53), Schernau, Unterfranken, Beieren
• Adrianus van den Heuvel (82), Schaijk
• Anne Joseph DUPREZ (88), Ramegnies-Chin,, Hainaut, Belgique
• Anthonia Hendrika van Hardeveld (81), Utrecht
• Aaltien Daniels (46), Exloërmond, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Marie VINCKEN (74), Stevensweert, Limburg, Nederland
• Aarnoud Jobse (0), Nieuw en Sint Joosland
• Adriana Kühbauch, Amsterdam, Nederland
• ANNA MARIA JOSEPHA MOSTAART (93), VOERENDAAL

• 1845 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor († 1930)
• 1847 » George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa († 1915)
• 1848 » Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor († 1903)
• 1851 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician († 1922)
• 1861 » Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist († 1942)
• 1862 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1863 » Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1868 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect († 1928)
• 1877 » Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer († 1960)
• 1879 » Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer († 1933)

• 1840 » Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
• 1843 » Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet (b. 1770)
• 1853 » Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (b. 1787)
• 1854 » Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
• 1859 » David Cox, English painter (b. 1783)
• 1861 » Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (b. 1777)
• 1863 » Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790)
• 1866 » Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
• 1879 » William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)

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.
• 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 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
• February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
• February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.

The temperature on June 7, 1862 was about 16.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.