About the day » Tuesday May 13, 1862Calender converter

• Abram Verburg, Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1882)
• Alexander Johannes ten Oever
• Adriana Jansen, Utrecht († 1930)
• Albert Dokter-, Nieuw-Buinen, Nederland († 1920)
• Albert Dokter, Nieuw-Buinen († 1920)
• Alijda Bresser, Apeldoorn (Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland) († 1936)
• Anna Dorothe Soetens, Dordrecht († 1929)
• Alvah Osterhoudt, Kripplebush, Marbletown, Ulster County, New York († 1935)
• Adriana LIEVENSE, Nieuwerkerk, Nederland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alida Noorlander, Lekkerkerk († 1924)

• Anthonius Klomp, Lopik
• Adriana Voordijk (67), Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Vermazen (56), Heerewaarden, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Trum (0), 's-Hertogenbosch (N.Br)
• Albert Siebes Jollema (38), Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antonia Casperina Franken (61), s-Hertogenbosch, NL
• Adriana VOORDIJK Jdr (67), Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Anna Cornelia van Eijk (2), Gouda
• aart SALIJ (55), rotterdam
• Alberta Johanna van Weeteringen (27), Weststellingwerf

• 1842 » Arthur Sullivan, English composer († 1900)
• 1853 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia († 1908)
• 1856 » Tom O'Rourke, American boxer and manager († 1938)
• 1857 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)
• 1868 » Sumner Paine, American target shooter († 1904)
• 1869 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer († 1944)
• 1877 » Robert Hamilton, Scottish international footballer († 1948)
• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)

• 1807 » Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1721)
• 1809 » Beilby Porteus, English bishop (b. 1731)
• 1832 » Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (b. 1769)
• 1835 » John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)

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.
• July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
• August 17 » American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
• August 17 » American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
• November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

The temperature on May 13, 1862 was about 16.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.