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• Anna Margaretha Falke, Nieuw-Dordrecht, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1948)
• ANNA CATHERINA WILS, Turnhout († 1940)
• Anna Margaretha Rast, Vastenow (Nw.Dordrecht) Emmen († 1948)
• Andreas Martinsen, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1867)
• Annigje Harms Veldman, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands(Schut) († 1949)
• Anje Zuidema, Odoorn, Drente, Netherlands
• Aaltje ten Hartog, Avereest
• Annigje Schonewille, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands(Hollandscheveld) († 1893)
• Aart Slagboom, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Adriana Johanna van Stam, Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1961)

• Berend Nijman (70), Gaanderen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Olink (6), Hengelo
• Bernardus Wibrandus Lodewikus Stegman (0), Arnhem
• Aleida Lammerink (76), Enschede, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Hermans Flootman (45), Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Antoons Roodbergen (53), Warga
• Aaltje Wals (1), Den Ilp
• Amelie Vermassen (38), Ressegem
• Abraham Roodbergen (53), Warga
• Berendina Jansen (73), Hellendoorn

• 1838 » Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author († 1910)
• 1846 » George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company († 1914)
• 1862 » Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician († 1927)
• 1866 » Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony († 1932)
• 1874 » Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts († 1950)
• 1876 » Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice († 1941)
• 1882 » Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer († 1937)
• 1886 » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor († 1960)
• 1887 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy († 1965)
• 1888 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot († 1918)

• 1819 » Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
• 1829 » Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
• 1836 » Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
• 1873 » Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
• 1891 » Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
• 1892 » Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)

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.
• January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
• June 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
• July 23 » American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
• September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
• November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
• December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

The temperature on October 6, 1862 was about 17.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%.