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• Aart Wijburg, Tiel († 1934)
• Adrianus Brouwers, Wouw († 1901)
• Alida Martina van Dooren, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (m) Sonneborn, Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Aart Wijburg, Tiel († 1934)
• Alida Blom, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland († 1866)
• Alida Martina van DOOREN, Maassluis († 1915)
• Aafje Maria Deen, Grootebroek († 1941)
• Amelia Marie Dombrecht, Oedelem, West Vlaanderen, Belgie. akte († 1947)
• Albert Joseph Mabille, Rouen, 76000, France

• Adrianus van Montfoort (0), Jutphaas
• Aaltje Riekeles Friesinga (31), Drogeham
• Albertus Antonius Titsing (0), Amsterdam
• AMANDUS VANDEKERCKHOVE (79), Ingelmunster, 8770, Flandre occidentale, Belgique
• Alida Antonia Jalink (0), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria de Laat (1), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Helena van Gelderen (56), Utrecht
• Anneke van Krieken (44), Deil
• Antje Sybes Hamstra (59), Oostermeer, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Rykeles Vriesinga (38), Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1838 » Léon Gambetta, French lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of France († 1882)
• 1840 » Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist († 1902)
• 1841 » Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III († 1926)
• 1842 » Dominic Savio, Italian Catholic saint, adolescent student of Saint John Bosco († 1857)
• 1861 » Iván Persa, Slovenian priest and author († 1935)
• 1862 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1869 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager († 1928)
• 1875 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler († 1940)
• 1875 » William Donne, English cricketer and captain († 1942)
• 1884 » J. C. Squire, English poet, author, and historian († 1958)

• 1817 » Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (b. 1740)
• 1827 » Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and educator (b. 1776)
• 1845 » Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1763)
• 1865 » A. P. Hill, American general (b. 1825)
• 1872 » Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (b. 1791)
• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)

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.
• May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
• July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
• 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.
• 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 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 April 2, 1863 was about 7.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%.