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• Antoinetta Johanna Oppeneer (van Drongelen), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje Balder, Broek op Langedijk, Nederland († 1936)
• Annetje Plat Plak, Zwartebroek (Barneveld) († 1915)
• Antoinette Johanna Kater (van Drongelen), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Reck, Valkenburg,Valkenburg aan de Geul,Limburg,Nederland
• Anna Zuiderwijk, Lisse († 1943)
• Aart van Osenbruggen, Rijswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1937)
• Aart van Osenbruggen, Rijswijk (Maurik) (GL) († 1937)
• Annetje Plat, Barneveld († 1915)
• Adriana Elizabeth Stokhof, Schiedam († 1939)

• ABRAHAM MABILOT (18)
• Antonetta Raijmakers (71), Venray, Nederland
• Anna Maria Haast (53), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Raymakers (71), Venray, Nederland
• Antje Schram (0), Gaasterland
• Anna Maria Cillekens, Heijthuijsen (LI NL)
• Antonie Ribbens (46), Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Boer (79), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cillikens (73), Heythuysen, Nederland
• Arend Jan Markerink (73), Vorden (Veldwijk)

• 1849 » Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright († 1924)
• 1851 » John Indermaur, British lawyer († 1925)
• 1857 » Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene poet and songwriter († 1937)
• 1859 » Cass Gilbert, American architect, designed the United States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building († 1934)
• 1864 » Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator († 1901)
• 1868 » Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer († 1917)
• 1869 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal († 1951)
• 1873 » Herbert Roper Barrett, English tennis player († 1943)
• 1873 » Julius Martov, Russian politician († 1923)
• 1874 » Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee († 1953)

• 1807 » Joseph Brant, American tribal leader (b. 1742)
• 1848 » William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
• 1870 » Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1846)
• 1885 » Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (b. 1837)
• 1890 » August Belmont, German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1816)
• 1895 » Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Erskine Childers, Irish soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1870)

• 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.
• March 9 » American Civil War: USSMonitor and CSSVirginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
• 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.
• September 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• October 8 » American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
• December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

The temperature on November 24, 1862 was about -2.6 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.