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• Adriaan Emmen, Dongen († 1920)
• Adrianus Rosier, dordrecht
• Adolf Lodewijk van Amson, Paramaribo († 1929)
• adriana UITTERLINDEN, s-gravendeel
• Aartje Muller, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland († 1948)
• Albertina Zobel, Duitsland († 1929)
• Aaltje () Esselink, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1943)
• Adrianus van den Eijnde, Lierop,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1940)
• Andries Verhage, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Stoter, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1862)

• Aaltje Vonder (26), Nieuwleusen
• Abraham de Bruijn (1), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham de Bruijn (3), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Jacobus Adrianusz Sneep (46), Padang (Ned. Ind)
• Anne Marius Post Uiterweer, Amsterdam
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• Bernardus Cornelis van der Tas (0), Oud en Nieuw Mathenesse, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Annigje Hendriks Simons (38), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bruyninckx (64), Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgie
• Adriana Verkoijen (79), Hilvarenbeek

• 1858 » Giuseppe De Sanctis, Italian painter († 1924)
• 1858 » Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor and educator († 1928)
• 1859 » Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator († 1937)
• 1862 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and author († 1943)
• 1863 » Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic († 1932)
• 1864 » Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian and critic († 1945)
• 1867 » Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator († 1938)
• 1867 » William Brede Kristensen, Norwegian historian of religion († 1953)
• 1868 » Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist and anatomist († 1946)
• 1870 » Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic († 1915)

• 1796 » Richard Gridley, American soldier and engineer (b. 1710)
• 1824 » Étienne Aignan, French playwright and translator (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824)
• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)

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.
• 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.
• June 6 » American Civil War: Battle of Memphis: Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
• July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
• August 30 » American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
• September 13 » American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
• October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on June 21, 1862 was about 15.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.