About the day » Wednesday October 5, 1864Calender converter

• Anna de Visser, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Addo Arthur Wolfgang Addens, Dlyleme Elime Jochen, Finland († 1918)
• Alida Hillegonda Bodewes, Sappemeer
• Andriesje van Essen, Steenwijkerwold († 1944)
• Agnes Bosten, Vaals († 1867)
• Anna Maria Hamers, Tilburg († 1953)
• Albert Contant, Jemeppe-sur-Meuse, Luik, België († 1917)
• Aaldert Hoogenkamp, Smilde († 1908)
• Amalie Wolf, Schroda, Wlkp., Poland († 1938)
• Adriaan Cornelis de Vos, Kloetinge († 1934)

• Baaltje Pieternella van der Ham (5), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje de Bos (29), Kloosterveen (Assen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Agnes Jacoba Wolkenfelt (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria SCHELSTRAETE (71), Evergem,9940,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aaltje Jakobus Bakker (76), Zuidbroek
• Berendina Kuiper (63), 's-Heerenberg
• Adriana Roverts (1), Lexmond, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina KUIPER (63), 's-Heerenberg (NL)
• Aaltje de Bos (29), Kloosterveen (Assen)
• Caroline Friedericke Schüffner (70), Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany

• 1848 » Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist and poet († 1919)
• 1850 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician († 1910)
• 1857 » Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish author and playwright († 1942)
• 1858 » Helen Churchill Candee, American journalist and author († 1949)
• 1864 » Louis Lumière, French director and producer († 1948)
• 1873 » Lucien Mérignac, French fencer († 1941)
• 1877 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1878 » Louise Dresser, American actress († 1965)
• 1879 » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic († 1945)

• 1813 » Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
• 1827 » William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 » Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Leendert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Antje
14. Neeltje
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 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
• July 8 » Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
• August 31 » During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
• September 7 » American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
• December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.

The temperature on October 5, 1864 was about 11.8 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.