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• Adrianus Elenbaas, Nieuwerkerk, Nederland
• Anne Cornelis Castelein, Tietjerk
• Anna van Rijsbergen
• Abraham Pont, Leiden
• Adriana Louise Wijbelingh, Achtkarspelen († 1939)
• Abraham Brieër, Leiden (Zuid-Holland) († 1864)
• Anna Maia Wilhelmina Machielsen, Rotterdam († 1940)
• Aleida MANAK, Kloosterveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1943)
• Allegonda Masson, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Kornelis Castelein, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• Allert Tammes Oosterhof (47), Oostermeer
• Afie Glorie- (0), Castricum, Nederland
• Aaltjen Florijn (58), Neede
• Allegonda ten Kate (73), Utrecht {UT}
• Anna Maria van den Elsen (73), Erp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Hendrik Dorland (0), Amsterdam
• Albert (Andries) de Jager (16), Menaldumadeel, Berlikum, Friesland, Nederland
• Arie van Erekom (66), Tricht (Buurmalsen) (GL)
• Roelof Klaas Steinvoorte (66), Amsterdam
• Afie Glorie (0), Castricum

• 1842 » Sidney Lanier, American composer and poet († 1881)
• 1843 » William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian businessman († 1915)
• 1857 » Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue († 1935)
• 1859 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 († 1935)
• 1862 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge († 1946)
• 1867 » Charles Henry Turner, American biologist, educator and zoologist († 1923)
• 1872 » Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, († 1946)
• 1878 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)

• 1802 » Pedro Rodríguez, Spanish statesman and economist (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
• 1820 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 » George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Grietje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Jacoba
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 7 » HMSOrpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
• March 30 » Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
• June 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
• June 20 » American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• August 17 » American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
• August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.

The temperature on February 3, 1863 was about 6.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.