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• Adriana Meijers, Den Helder (NH, NLD) († 1950)
• Aleida Scheepmaker, Groesbeek, Netherlands († 1887)
• Anna Catharina Spée, Roermond
• Anna Catherina Spee, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 1919)
• Albert Borst, Zwolle
• Adriaantje Cornelia Jongeruiter, Ridderkerk († 1951)
• Adriana Driessen, Dordrecht († 1933)
• Anna Antonia Briers, Gors-op-Leeuw, België
• Alewijn van Akkeren, Vlissingen
• Anna Grebbers (Krebbers), Groesbeek († 1942)

• Aagje Beets (73), Wijdewormer Noord Holland Nederland
• Anne Marie Cuijpers ongehuwd (59), Sint Odiliënberg, Lim, Nederland
• Anne Simons Heeres (9), Hoogkerk
• Adélaïde Aimée Armande vallée (70), Bretteville-sur-Ay
• Adriana de Bie (69), Den Bosch
• Aart Slotboom, Veenendaal
• Anna Ooijen (28), Princenhage
• Allegonda Geerts (0), Empel en Meerwijk
• Antje Lourens Zwaanstra (30), Kollum
• Anna Theresia Verduyn (60), Handzaeme

• 1850 » Seth Low, American academic and politician, 92nd Mayor of New York City († 1916)
• 1853 » Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker († 1900)
• 1854 » Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell († 1934)
• 1856 » Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon and cardiologist († 1931)
• 1867 » Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat († 1916)
• 1868 » Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan († 1948)
• 1877 » Sam Zemurray, Russian-American businessman, founded the Cuyamel Fruit Company († 1961)
• 1879 » Henri Giraud, French general and politician († 1949)
• 1880 » Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal († 1954)
• 1880 » Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch physicist and academic († 1933)

• 1803 » Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet and academic (b. 1743)
• 1849 » Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)
• 1862 » John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1873 » Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788)
• 1886 » Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
• 1892 » Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• 1923 » Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
• 1936 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• 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.
• March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
• April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
• April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
• April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
• May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

The temperature on January 18, 1865 was about 3.4 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.