About the day » Monday December 29, 1862Calender converter

• Adrianus Drost, Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1933)
• Adrianus Hoksbergen, Wageningen († 1927)
• Adriana Westerweel, Brouwershaven, Zeeland (Nederland) († 1882)
• Albert Jan Gerrits Kronenberg, Olst († 1893)
• Albert Stikel, Ees († 1879)
• Abel Arend DE BOER, De Waard (Grijpskerk) Groningen Netherlands († 1936)
• Aaltjen Boers, Sibculo († 1866)
• Adrianus Boerdonck, Schijndel († 1941)
• Albert Jan Kronenberg, Olst, Overijssel, Nederland († 1893)
• Aart Hofstede, Ermelo/Drie, Gelderland, Nederland († 1931)

• Knevelbaard (0), Tripscompagnie
• Antonetta (Anthonet) Verdoorn (91), Eethen, Genderen en Heesbeen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertina Janssens (12), Begijnendijk
• Arie Cornelis de Graaf (0), Andel
• Albertus Leeuwens (33), Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Mohren (79), Echterbosch, Netherlands
• Vitters (0), Delft
• Anna Geertruij Georgdr. Wens (59), Groningen
• Annigje Spitse (0), Havelte
• Anna Maria Louiza de Waal (1), Ossenisse, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1844 » Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and was the first president of Indian National Congress. († 1906)
• 1855 » August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet († 1927)
• 1856 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic († 1894)
• 1859 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico († 1920)
• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)
• 1879 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot († 1936)
• 1881 » Jess Willard, American boxer († 1968)
• 1885 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general († 1921)

• 1807 » Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo, Portuguese diplomat and scientist (b. 1750)
• 1815 » Sarah Baartman, Khoikhoi woman (b. 1789)
• 1825 » Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (b. 1748)
• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
• 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.
• July 23 » American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
• October 8 » American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
• December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

The temperature on December 29, 1862 was about 6.7 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.