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• Aaltje Jacobusd Laagland, Joure, haskerland.fr.nld
• Aaltje Jacobus Laagland, Haskerland
• Adrianus Dirken, Oudenbosch († 1939)
• Branderhorst, Almkerk, Nederland
• Aagje Kooper († 1863)
• Agatha van de Nes, Monnickendam, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1927)
• Aaltje Hendriks Wiegers, Laren († 1926)
• Adrianus van Mil, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Aagje VAN OPHEM, Harenkarspel
• Adrianus van Dooren, Leende, Heeze-Leende, NB-NL († 1915)

• Arnoldus Schade van Westrum (32), 's Gravenhage, Nederland
• Arnoldus Schade van Westrum (32), 's-Gravenhage
• "Teuntje" Mettie Berk (64), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Bruno Phlypo (50), Zonnebeke
• Cathalijntje Sas (89), Breskens, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriana Jöbsis (0), Nijmegen
• Andries van Dolder (68), Aarlanderveen
• Maria Josepha van Haelst (36), Koewacht
• Anna Louisa Georgs KRATZSCH (78), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ada Phyllis Subritzky (0), Maldon, Mount Alexander Shier,Victoria, Austr

• 1844 » Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer († 1909)
• 1844 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1906)
• 1848 » E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist († 1909)
• 1857 » A. P. Lucas, English cricketer († 1923)
• 1866 » Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum († 1936)
• 1867 » Louise, Princess Royal of England († 1931)
• 1870 » Jay Johnson Morrow, American engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone († 1937)
• 1874 » Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress († 1967)
• 1879 » Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1907)
• 1880 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet († 1923)

• 1810 » Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean rebel leader (b. 1767)
• 1850 » Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (b. 1794)
• 1862 » William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 » Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
• 1893 » P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
• 1895 » Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. c. 1818)
• 1900 » Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)

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 11 » American Civil War: CSSAlabama encounters and sinks the USSHatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
• January 29 » The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
• July 26 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
• August 17 » American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
• 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 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The temperature on February 20, 1863 was about 7.4 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.