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• Oom (Noom), Brouwershaven gem. Schouwen-Duiveland Zld. NL († 1863)
• Arend van de Vosse, Elspeet, Gelderland, Nederland († 1863)
• Arie de Jong, Beesd West Betuwe (GL) († 1928)
• Andreas Matthias Leenders, Maastricht († 1946)
• Arie van Rooyen, Noord-Waddinxveen († 1935)
• Arie De Jong, Beesd, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1928)
• Adrianus Vromans, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Wouters Josephus, Wortel, Antwerpen, België
• Abraham M. Geisinger
• Adriaan Razenberg, Hooge Zwaluwe († 1888)

• Betje Emanuel Blits (69), Wijhe (Overijssel)
• Catharina Helregen (87), Gemeente Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Andreas Josephus VANHOOREN, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Abraham Reiff GODSHALK (22)
• Anna Odilia Schreurs (57), Hoensbroek, Nederland
• "Johannes Francis"cus Donders (52), Tilburg
• Bas-Jan Wiggers Bastiani (66), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Johannes Kuijpers (8), Oeffelt
• Aaltje Kers (15), Nijbroek
• Anna Catharina Rosset (44), Middelburg

• 1848 » Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter and academic († 1906)
• 1854 » Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer († 1912)
• 1858 » Georgia Hopley, American journalist, temperance advocate, and the first woman prohibition agent († 1944)
• 1863 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian-Greek journalist and poet († 1933)
• 1863 » Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Austrian nun and missionary († 1922)
• 1863 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation († 1951)
• 1872 » Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and academic († 1952)
• 1872 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and lawyer († 1930)
• 1875 » Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer († 1950)
• 1878 » Friedrich Adler, Jewish-German academic, artist and designer (d.1945)

• 1793 » John Michell, English geologist and astronomer (b. 1724)
• 1798 » Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, Austrian entomologist and author (b. 1723)
• 1833 » William Babington, Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist (b. 1756)
• 1854 » Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1768)
• 1903 » Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1905 » Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)

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. Petronella
16. Jacoba

• 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.
• April 2 » American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
• July 19 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
• September 19 » American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
• October 14 » American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
• November 19 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on April 29, 1863 was about 6.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.