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• Adrianus van Pul, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1907)
• Anna Romein, Ursem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1933)
• Adolphe Louchart, Bergen, Henegouwen, België († 1862)
• Anna Wilhelmina Frederika Matthes, Amsterdam († 1910)
• Alberdina Willemina Onstenk, Steenderen († 1869)
• Anna Henriette Petronella Testas, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1954)
• Adrianus Weltevrede (Weltevreede), Brielle († 1930)
• Anna Van Hoof, Bosvoorde, Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk gewest, Belgium († 1938)
• Adrianus Weltevreede, Brielle († 1930)
• Anna Henriette Petronella Testas, Houten,Gemeente Houten,Utrecht,Netherlands,huis Oud-Wulven († 1954)

• Adriaan Broks (75), Schijndel, Nederland
• Adriaan Oosthoek (1), Alphen
• Adriana BELGRAVER (0), Utrecht Netherlands
• Piet Van Der Sar (35), 's-Gravenzande
• Agatha Janmaat (1), Zevenhoven en Noorden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana PEIJNENBORG (87), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleijda Schopman, Oldenzaal (Overijssel)
• Alle Klazes Jansma (1), Joure
• Haak (0), Groningen
• Aaltje van Zoest (76), Bunschoten

• 1838 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln († 1865)
• 1841 » James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster († 1918)
• 1843 » Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright († 1920)
• 1847 » Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic († 1923)
• 1855 » Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator († 1936)
• 1872 » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist († 1950)
• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)

• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)

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 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
• February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
• May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
• June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• August 28 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
• September 17 » American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

The temperature on May 10, 1862 was about 13.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.