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• Adriaan Zwartepoorte, Kloetinge († 1862)
• Anna Maria Emerencia CLAES, Kaggevinne Belgie
• Aaltje Schipper, Zuidbroek, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriaansen, Middelburg
• Aafke Weemhof, Wagenborgen (gem. Eemsdelta) († 1871)
• * Levenloos kind Baars, Castricum, Noord-Holland, NL († 1862)
• Aartje Boutestein, Gouda († 1936)
• Aluzius Van Ijsseldijk, Soerabaja, Java, Ned. Indie († 1943)
• Angelina Edouarda De Charon de Saint Germain, Batavia, Nederlands-Indië († 1945)
• NEEVEL, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, NL († 1862)

• Anna Cornelia BARTHOLOMEEUSEN (51), Zundert, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands
• Arij Bastiaansz Van Der LINDEN (50)
• Benjamin Freeman Bird (84), Springville, Utah County, Utah, United States of America
• Antonetta de Vries (29), Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Pieters Strijker (27), Krakeel (Hoogeveen)
• Antje van Waveren (20), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Guldener (73), Vollenhove (Overijssel)
• Antje van Waveren (20), Utrecht
• Aldegundis van Engelen (62), Vlijmen
• Brand Alberts Goudbeek (85), Hardenberg

• 1844 » Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer († 1909)
• 1844 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1906)
• 1848 » E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist († 1909)
• 1857 » A. P. Lucas, English cricketer († 1923)
• 1866 » Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum († 1936)
• 1867 » Louise, Princess Royal of England († 1931)
• 1870 » Jay Johnson Morrow, American engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone († 1937)
• 1874 » Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress († 1967)
• 1879 » Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player († 1907)
• 1880 » Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet († 1923)

• 1810 » Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean rebel leader (b. 1767)
• 1850 » Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (b. 1794)
• 1862 » William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
• 1871 » Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
• 1893 » P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
• 1895 » Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. c. 1818)
• 1900 » Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
• 1907 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Boutros Ghali, Egyptian educator and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)

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.
• February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• June 5 » As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
• August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
• August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• October 8 » American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
• December 12 » American Civil War: USSCairo sinks on the Yazoo River.

The temperature on February 20, 1862 was about 8.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.