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• Bastiaan Bogaart, Vianen, Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1865)
• Femmigje Van der Sleen, Hoogeveen († 1932)
• Alida van der Meer, 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Albert Wijker, Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland († 1862)
• Anna Maria Fehr, Emsbüren-Engden († 1901)
• Aafke Kornelis Bergsma, Suameer († 1863)
• Adriana Stieltjes, hoorn († 1929)
• ZWIENINK, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, NL († 1862)
• Anna Catharina Van Tendeloo, Lille
• Berend Feddes de Jong-, Smallingerland, Nederland

• Abraham Hilbrink (73), Zenderen, gemeente Borne
• Alexander L Endsley (52), St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States
• Andries Jans Meijer (53), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus van Winsen (0), Warmond, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Abraham de Rave (51), hellevoetsluis
• Abraham de Molenaar (45), Aardenburg
• Aaltje(1) Mulderij (6), Apeldoorn
• Aartje Hopman (69), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna van EEKEREN (3), Bergen Op Zoom (N. Br. Nl)
• Adriana Reedijk (71), Rotterdam

• 1841 » William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star († 1915)
• 1843 » Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator († 1901)
• 1849 » Luther Burbank, American botanist and author († 1926)
• 1850 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1921)
• 1850 » Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia († 1937)
• 1857 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1872 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter († 1944)
• 1873 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress († 1959)
• 1875 » Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor († 1937)
• 1878 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer († 1927)

• 1809 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)
• 1810 » Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750)
• 1838 » Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
• 1897 » Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (b. 1813)
• 1904 » Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 » Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
• 1920 » Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
• 1928 » Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
• 1932 » Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
• May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
• September 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• September 8 » Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
• December 13 » American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.

The temperature on March 7, 1862 was about 13.7 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.