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• Adriaan de Vries, Baardwijk, Nederland
• Aalt Witteveen, Hardenwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1937)
• Aart Eck van, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Anna Maria Been, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1912)
• Aart Liefers, Wapenveld (Gem. Heerde)
• Andries Allerts van der Woude, Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert John Stephenson, Swansea, Tasmania, Australia
• Andries Allerts Van Der Woude, Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries Cornelis van Ollefen, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1920)
• Anna Maria Bolsenbroek, Doesburg († 1864)

• Agnieta(Niesje) Waning (60), Veenendaal
• Anna van HERPEN (73), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Lolkus (0), Alblasserdam
• Agnieta (Niesje) Waning (60), Veenendaal, Nederland
• Adriaantje Vos (8), Klaaswaal
• Andries Vervoort, Zutphen
• Aalbert Woudenberg (1), Langerak
• Anna Catharina Jans van Hal (77), Stadskanaal
• Alexander Jonkheer (80), Borssele (Borssele) (Zeeland)
• (Maria Gertrude is) (Helena) Ro(o)(k)x (62), Meerssen

• 1840 » William Giblin, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania († 1887)
• 1853 » Anna Bayerová, Czech physician († 1924)
• 1862 » Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor and director († 1932)
• 1868 » La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer, and dancer († 1965)
• 1873 » Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet, and playwright († 1939)
• 1874 » Charles Despiau, French sculptor († 1946)
• 1879 » Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter († 1935)
• 1883 » Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician 135th Prime Minister of Greece († 1953)
• 1884 » Harry Ferguson, Irish engineer, invented the tractor († 1960)
• 1887 » Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist († 1975)

• 1847 » Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1809)
• 1847 » Thiệu Trị, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1807)
• 1856 » Paul Delaroche, French painter and educator (b. 1797)
• 1886 » James Martin, Irish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1820)
• 1893 » Pierre Tirard, Swiss-French engineer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of France (b. 1827)
• 1895 » Eugene Field, American journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
• 1906 » John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (b. 1832)
• 1918 » Wilfred Owen, English lieutenant and poet (b. 1893)
• 1921 » Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856)
• 1924 » Richard Conner, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)

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.
• April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
• May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
• May 21 » American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
• July 4 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Confederate invasion of U.S. territory.
• July 18 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
• November 18 » King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.

The temperature on November 4, 1863 was about 12.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.