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• Adriaan 2 de Bruijne, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland († 1900)
• Aloisius Jacobus Annet, Klerken West-Vlaanderen, België († 1907)
• Alice Caroline** Stewart, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1933)
• Agatha van Stralen, Leiden
• Aafje Ravensbergen, Rijnsburg († 1862)
• Alois Jacob Annet, Zarren
• Antje Jurjens Seldenthuis, Lemsterland († 1908)
• Antonia de Bont, Raamsdonk, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland († 1933)
• Adriaan Kees, Texel († 1941)
• Anna Maria Harmeijer, Rotterdam

• Anna Elisabeth VANDENHOUDT (62), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Anna Maria Sportelli (1), Putignano, Bari, Apulia, Italy
• Aafke Canrinus (7), Makkum, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Roebersen (77), Dalfsen
• Aaltje Linting (7), de Wilp, gem. Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Abram WIELAARD (26)
• Albert ROEBERSEN JANSEN (76), Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nl
• Aaltje Jelles Linting (6), De Wilp, Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Weits (30), Den Helder
• Anna Meerschaert (79), Gent

• 1845 » George Kennan, American journalist and explorer († 1924)
• 1848 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic († 1935)
• 1848 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright († 1917)
• 1856 » Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia († 1920)
• 1866 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager († 1940)
• 1868 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer († 1952)
• 1873 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author († 1908)
• 1876 » G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic († 1962)
• 1878 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss († 1920)
• 1878 » Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator († 1951)

• 1820 » Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)

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.
• 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.
• May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
• July 12 » The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
• 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.
• November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
• December 31 » American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

The temperature on February 16, 1862 was about -0.1 °C. The air pressure was 3.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.