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• Alexander S. Tate, Orangeburg, South Carolina († 1881)
• Antje Jurjens Seldenthuis, Lemsterland († 1908)
• Adriana Bonis, Dussen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1944)
• Adriana Buermans, Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriaan 2 de Bruijne, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland († 1900)
• Abram van Dorp, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands († 1914)
• Adrianus Nicolaas Anthonius Huisman, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1864)
• Anna Louise Joergensen, Roskilde Kobstad († 1932)
• Abraham van Dorp, Rotterdam († 1914)
• adriana dane, fijnaart en heijningen († 1862)

• Antje Jacobs Oepkes (11), Terschelling
• Albert ROEBERSEN JANSEN (76), Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nl
• Adriana Reniers (7), Terheijden. Noord Brabant
• Anna Elisabeth VANDENHOUDT (62), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Albertina Raman (15), Serskamp
• Aafje Kalkman (1), Schiedam
• Aaltje Linting (7), de Wilp, gem. Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Kughn (55), Jackson, Greene, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Elisabeth Kremer (0), Niederlangen, Lathen
• Anna Maria Ackermann, Klüt, Duitsland

• 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)

• 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 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
• May 5 » Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
• August 17 » American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
• September 1 » American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
• November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
• December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

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%.