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• Alice NOGGLE, Grant, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• * Geertje Kortenhoeven, Lexmond († 1911)
• Adrianus HOS, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida van Leersum, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1867)
• Adriaan George de Blécourt, Appingedam (gem. Eemsdelta)
• * Arie Middelweerd, Harmelen, Utrecht, NL († 1864)
• Tollenaar, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• - Exalto, Herwijnen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1864)
• Adriana Boudestein, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Rueben Todd, Chautauqua, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1940)

• Abraham Sluijter (2), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ARIE VAN VLAARDINGEN (29), MOORDRECHT
• Ariana Stanford (71), Houston, Texas
• BArend Willemsz Karman (60), Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Vreugdenhil (2), Maasland
• Abraham Vreugdenhil (2), Maasland
• Anna Elisabeth Schollen, Tielt-bij-Aarschot, Brabant, Belgie
• Barend Karman (60), Renkum
• Anna Engelina Vooges (76), Haarlem
• Gerben Wiebes Hazenberg (55), Harkema-Opeinde (Achtkarspelen) Friesland

• 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. 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 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
• April 18 » Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
• April 22 » The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
• April 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
• June 15 » American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
• November 30 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin.

The temperature on April 2, 1864 was about 7.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.