About the day » Monday December 8, 1862Calender converter

• Adam Ooms, Muiden († 1862)
• Bregje van Dommelen, Rietveld, Utrecht (tot 1964 Zuid-Holland), Nederland († 1940)
• Albertus Keijzer, hippolytushoef Wieringen Nederland
• Adriana Maria de Been, Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1876)
• Adrianus Veenbrink, Utrecht († 1940)
• Abraham Schmeidler, Krakau (Polen) († 1937)
• Arnoldina Maria Tewe, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Antonius Bennenbroek, Someren, Noord-Brabant, Pays-Bas († 1946)
• Alberta Johanna Kempink, Twello,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland († 1949)
• Albertus Keijzer, Wieringen († 1931)

• Arij Bijlsma (0), Niehove, Oldehove, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alexander Robert Victor Michael Anthonie Baudouin de Courteney (37), Radzymin, Masovië, Polen
• Arent Teunis Hertsenberg (97), Zwolle
• Carolina Weller (36), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• abraham Duininck (1), sluis (z)
• Anna Maria Bijers (88), Stellendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnolda Gerritsen (62), Arnhem
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• Olsen (0)
• Albert Verbeek (3), Lemsterland

• 1860 » Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet († 1939)
• 1861 » Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter († 1944)
• 1861 » Georges Méliès, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1938)
• 1861 » William C. Durant, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet († 1947)
• 1862 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright († 1921)
• 1863 » Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist († 1937)
• 1864 » Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor († 1943)
• 1865 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1865 » Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer († 1957)
• 1865 » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general († 1946)

• 1830 » Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
• 1856 » Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
• 1864 » George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
• 1869 » Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)

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.
• March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
• 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.
• August 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
• August 30 » American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
• November 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
• December 17 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

The temperature on December 8, 1862 was about 8.1 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.