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• Alida Rebecca Friederich, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart van Surksum, Putten
• Adriana van den Berg, Vlaardinger-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Adriana Kuijken, Bergeyk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1949)
• Alphonsus Huybrichs, Paal
• Abraham van Reeden, Gouda, Nederland († 1940)
• Adriana Heijboer, Stavenisse († 1952)
• Aafje Smit, Volendam († 1862)
• - Levenloos - Boeve, Zwollerkerspel-Ittersum († 1862)
• Adolphine Bernard, Montignies-sur-Sambre, Hainaut, Belgique

• Tamme Alberts Bos (48), Siddeburen
• Adriana Jansd Oerlemans (81), 's-Gravendeel, Nederland
• Adriana Jansdr. Oerlemans (81), 's-Gravendeel (Zuid-Holland)
• Adriana Jansd. Oerlemans (81), 's Gravendeel
• Barend Wulp van der (79), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Klijn (1), Loon op Zand
• Aalt van Sprakelaar (0), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Armande Constance van La Pallu (71), Bussy-la-Pesle, Bourgondië
• Aeilke Ritzema (6), Westernieland, Eenrum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Jans Oerlemans (81), 's Gravendeel (ZH district III) NL

• 1841 » Nicholas I of Montenegro († 1921)
• 1849 » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author († 1916)
• 1860 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician († 1936)
• 1866 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1942)
• 1870 » Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian († 1952)
• 1876 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer († 1934)
• 1879 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet († 1915)
• 1881 » Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general († 1918)
• 1884 » Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot († 1927)
• 1885 » Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1962)

• 1849 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1884 » Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)
• 1894 » Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1904 » Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
• 1906 » Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)

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 30 » The first American ironclad warship, the USSMonitor is launched.
• January 31 » Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
• February 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
• April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
• September 1 » American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
• September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.

The temperature on October 7, 1862 was about 13.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.