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• Aaltje Harmens Gorter, Donkerbroek
• adriaantje NAAKTGEBOREN, 's-gravendeel († 1903)
• Adriana Maria Rolina Baronesse Callot d'Escurij, Ede (Gl) († 1932)
• Adriana Maria Rolina COLLOT D'ESCURIJ, Ede Gelderland Netherlands († 1932)
• Alida Petronella Krul, Den Haag († 1862)
• Adriana Maria Rolina barones Collot d’Escury, Ede,Gemeente Ede,Gelderland,Netherlands,huis Wester-Eng († 1932)
• Aaltje van Welsem, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1863)
• "Barones" Adriana Maria Rolina Collot d`Escurij, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1932)
• Aaltje van Welsen, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1863)
• Adriana Maria Rolinde Collot D'escury, Ede (Gld) Huize Westereng († 1932)

• aagje jansd bak (36), crommenie 36 jaar oud
• Anna MOERMANS (0), Grote-Spouwen, 3740, Bilzen-Hoeselt, Limburg, België
• Anna Margaretha Brouwer (20), Arnhem
• Albert Slegt (42), Landsmeer
• Alida Smit (19), Lisse
• Albert De Haan (1)
• Aagje Bak (36), Krommeniehorn
• Adrianus van Koesveld (Koetsveld) (84), Schiedam, Nederland
• Aafke Egberts Waslander (58), Haskendijken
• Adriaantje de Jong (38), Zuid-Beijerland, Nederland

• 1845 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1936)
• 1847 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph († 1931)
• 1855 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)

• 1795 » Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (b. 1740)
• 1829 » Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)
• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)

• 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.
• February 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
• May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
• June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
• August 17 » American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
• October 8 » American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.

The temperature on February 11, 1862 was about 3.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.