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• Adriaan van der Stel, Poortvliet, Zeeland, Nederland († 1865)
• Anna Catharina Van Someren, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1893)
• Annigje Iggeles Westra, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van Mourik, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1868)
• Adriana van den Heuvel, Aalsmeer († 1931)
• Aaltje Geerts TAMMENS, Hornhuizen (Kloosterburen) Groningen Netherlands († 1865)
• Aldert Riddersma, Aalsum († 1951)
• Anna Catharina van Someren, Haarlem († 1893)
• Vegers, Zevenbergen († 1873)
• Vermeer, Tilburg († 1865)

• Arie van Renswouw (0), Zeist
• Aafke Lykeles Zittema (56), Hallum
• Aaltjen Jans Schuilinge (90), Zuidlaarderveen, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Pelgrim (0), Klundert
• Anne Kelderhuis (0), Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Douwes Douma (56), Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Douwedr Douma (56), Kollum, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Elisabeth van den Wildenbergh (67), Culemborg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Sybrand Blauw (44), Dokkum
• De Jong (0), Oostdongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1856 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist († 1917)
• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)
• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)
• 1871 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia († 1939)
• 1876 » Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author and playwright († 1958)

• 1829 » Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (b. 1760)
• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)

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. Aaltje
11. Grietje
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.
• April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
• April 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
• April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
• December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The temperature on August 12, 1865 was about 21.2 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.