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• Aaron Fuller Tally, Owen, Indiana († 1947)
• Adriana Spruit, Boskoop
• Albert C. Morenzy, Pennsylvania († 1946)
• Adriaan den ROOIJEN, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1927)
• ? LADOE, Olsene, Zulte, Province of East Flanders, Belgium
• Angela Hunfeld, NeuHeede
• Adriaan Castelijns, Hulsel († 1938)
• Anna Magdalena KAPTEIJN, Sassenheim
• Adriana Maria van Roessel, Tilburg († 1943)
• Albert VAN HOOF, Antwerpen († 1907)

• Alewyn Johannes Smit (70)
• Antonie Harms van Wijk (64), Gasselte, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Isabella Struyts (65), Santvliet, prov. Antwerpen
• de Vries (0), Schoterland
• Albert T. Estes (43), KY
• Adriana Jacobsdr van Rooij (81), Ter Aar (Kerkbuurt)
• Aaltjen Udink (55), Bathmen
• Antje Mul (30), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Udink (55), Zuidloo (Bathmen)
• Jacoba Marce (34), Numansdorp

• 1848 » Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter and illustrator († 1926)
• 1854 » Ioannis Psycharis, Ukrainian-French philologist and author († 1929)
• 1856 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist († 1919)
• 1856 » Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer († 1917)
• 1857 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic († 1911)
• 1859 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1906)
• 1862 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright († 1931)
• 1863 » Frank Hornby, English businessman and politician, invented Meccano († 1936)
• 1869 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales († 1921)
• 1869 » Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter († 1945)

• 1845 » Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, Head of State of Costa Rica (b. 1800)
• 1879 » Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)

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.
• January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
• February 24 » Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
• April 2 » American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
• August 4 » Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
• August 17 » American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
• November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

The temperature on May 15, 1863 was about 13.2 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.