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• Aleida Berendina van Aalderen, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1925)
• Abraham Hoekveld, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Loon van, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Anna Maria Jacobs, Nijmegen († 1934)
• Aloysius Ludovicus Craninckx, Casteren († 1932)
• Aleida Steinacker, Gronau († 1880)
• Adrianus Antonius de Louw, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1863)
• Adriana van Loon, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Anna Maria de Loor, Amsterdam
• Adolf Utens, Maastricht, Nederland († 1942)

• Anthonie Hemsbergen (63), Langbroek, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Leemans (73), Nijmegen
• Alexandre BONNET (14), Lesdain,59258,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Alida de Vries (63), Bloemendaal
• Antonius Jacobus Bernardus Doekbrijder (5), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertje Aartsen Foppen (86), Harderwijk
• Albert Veldhuis (17), Hoogkerk, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina BERGMAN (35), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonie Hensbergen (63), Langbroek
• Anna Carolina Widerström (29)

• 1845 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1856 » Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France († 1951)
• 1860 » Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)
• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)
• 1868 » Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer († 1944)
• 1876 » Erich Raeder, German admiral († 1960)
• 1878 » Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter († 1958)
• 1879 » Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer († 1984)
• 1880 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper († 1954)
• 1880 » Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist († 1964)

• 1794 » Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)
• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)

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. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• 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 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
• February 16 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
• June 19 » The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
• November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.
• December 12 » American Civil War: USSCairo sinks on the Yazoo River.

The temperature on April 24, 1862 was about 11.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.