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• Aartje van der Sluis, Aarlanderveen († 1957)
• Adriana de Laat, ,, Oude Tonge, Nederland († 1927)
• Anne Jongbloed, Makkinga, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1884)
• Adriana Maria Jaspers, Halsteren
• Aaltje Niezen, Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland († 1948)
• alida blankenstijn, houten (utrecht) nederland
• Anna Maria Harmeijer, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1915)
• Andrew "Yatley" Miller († 1955)
• Anna Windhouwer, Wormerveer († 1866)
• Aagje BROUWER, Weesp († 1947)

• Bernadina Holleman (42), Nijmegen
• Arij van der Windt (8), Vlaardingen
• Aagtje KES (3), Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Smeets (48), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Aidina Anna Susanna Keppel Hesselink (0), Warnsveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Smeets (48), Elsloo
• Aaltje Scherrenburg alias Aaltje Petersen alias Aaltje Lammertsen (72), Ede
• Adriana Jacoba Clowting (3), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelisse Dorst (84), Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albertina NIELEN (0), Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1847 » Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel († 1918)
• 1852 » C. Lloyd Morgan, English zoologist and psychologist († 1936)
• 1852 » Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1918)
• 1861 » Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic († 1953)
• 1864 » John Henry Mackay, Scottish-German philosopher and author († 1933)
• 1866 » Karl Sapper, German linguist and explorer († 1945)
• 1872 » Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer, designed the Salginatobel Bridge and Schwandbach Bridge († 1940)
• 1874 » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math († 1937)
• 1875 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general († 1915)
• 1876 » Henry Blogg, English fisherman and sailor († 1954)

• 1804 » Joseph Priestley, English chemist and theologian (b. 1733)
• 1807 » John Reid, Scottish general (b. 1721)
• 1833 » Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1762)
• 1834 » Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
• 1865 » Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1874)
• 1899 » Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
• 1902 » John Colton, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
• 1916 » Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1867)
• 1918 » Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1862)

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.
• 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.
• July 23 » American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
• September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
• September 17 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
• October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
• November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

The temperature on February 6, 1862 was about 7.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.