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• Adrina Maria van der Velde, Den Haag, South Holland, Netherlands († 1952)
• Amelius Amandus De Witte, Nieuwkerken, Sint-Niklaas, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1922)
• Anna Cornelia Wilhelmina Damme Servarssens, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Helena Gesina Hogers, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1937)
• Aalt Jansen, Harderwijk (Gld) Nederland († 1928)
• Aart Jan van Veldhuizen, Lunteren († 1895)
• Scholte, Leeuwarden († 1862)
• Anna Bertha Geertruida van Grol, Renkum († 1897)
• Anna Elizabeth Erwin Palm, Xenia, Greene, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1917)
• Anna Catharina Loeber, Venlo († 1896)

• Antonius Bastings (72), Borgharen
• Alabeth Ball Freeman (75), Douglas County, Missouri, United States
• Alabeth Elsie Ball (74), Topaz, Douglas, Missouri, United States
• Anna Catharina PAUWELS (72), Herselt
• Aalbert Alblas (45), Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltien ENNING (26), Bronneger (Borger), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Lehmann (72), Hermsdorf
• Aukje Wartena (1), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Piebes (72)
• Anna Catharina Cornelia de Wijs (28), Raamsdonk

• 1842 » Sidney Lanier, American composer and poet († 1881)
• 1843 » William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian businessman († 1915)
• 1857 » Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue († 1935)
• 1859 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 († 1935)
• 1862 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge († 1946)
• 1867 » Charles Henry Turner, American biologist, educator and zoologist († 1923)
• 1872 » Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, († 1946)
• 1878 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)

• 1802 » Pedro Rodríguez, Spanish statesman and economist (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
• 1820 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 » George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)

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.
• January 30 » The first American ironclad warship, the USSMonitor is launched.
• 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.
• April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
• June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
• November 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

The temperature on February 3, 1862 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 5.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.