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• Aart Rijsdijk, Rotterdam
• Adriana Vogelaar, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1935)
• Adriana van den Brand, Zeeland (N.Br.)
• Adriaan Anemaat, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe († 1940)
• Alberdina Dieters, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1935)
• Anna Elisabeth Hendriks, Berg en Terblijt († 1934)
• Anna Maria Berg, Slagharen, Nederland
• Alberdina Dieters, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Anna Maria van Kessel, Rossum
• Adriana Vogelaar, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1935)

• Agatha Stevensdr Weijers (68), Loosduinen
• Arend Hovestad (39), Wageningen
• Cornelius Van Beveren (91), Zandvliet-Antwerpen, België
• Anne Elisabethe Van Aelten‏ (42), Veerle, 2431, België
• Adriana Jacoba Clowting (4), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• COLETA SPILDOOREN (42), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Adrianus Janson (0), Noordwijk-Binnen
• Bouwe Foppes Huitema (56), Harlingen
• Adolphe Levy (36)
• Adam Louws Eekhof (59), Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1847 » Fanny Holland, English actress and singer († 1931)
• 1850 » Anton Mahnič, Slovenian bishop, philosopher, and theologian († 1920)
• 1853 » Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician († 1924)
• 1857 » Julia Platt, American embryologist and politician († 1935)
• 1860 » Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer († 1940)
• 1864 » Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1867 » Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator († 1944)
• 1868 » Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright († 1925)
• 1869 » Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1872 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient († 1963)

• 1836 » Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)
• 1851 » James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (b. 1789)
• 1852 » Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
• 1852 » Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (b. 1812)
• 1862 » Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (b. 1834)
• 1862 » Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
• 1879 » Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist and author (b. 1808)
• 1891 » Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter (b. 1817)
• 1898 » William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857)
• 1901 » William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)

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.
• April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
• April 29 » American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
• 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 17 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
• December 26 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.

The temperature on September 14, 1862 was about 14.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.