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• Alida De Vos, Leiden († 1875)
• Alexander Clark **, New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland († 1925)
• Alida de Vos, Leiden († 1875)
• Angenita van EFFEREN, Dordrecht
• Anna Geertruida Maria KUHLMAN, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1863)
• Antje Willems Stuursma, Munnekezijl, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus IJpelaar, Drunen
• Abraham Schonewil, Alkmaar († 1945)
• Adrianus IJpelaar, Drunen († 1913)
• Amanda Kolb BENNER

• Anne jans Hogeveen (59), Hoornsterzwaag, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria WILLEMS (14), Beuningen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Dane (0), Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Barbant, Nederland
• Antonina (Anthonia, Anthonina) Verhoeffe (Verhoef, Verhoeft, Verhoeff) (63), Serooskerke (W)
• Amandus Rabaut (67), Staden,West-Vlaanderen,België
• 'n Levenloos geboren zoon van Teunissen (0), Ter Aar (Vrijhoeven)
• Anne Jans Hogeveen (59), Hoornsterzwaag, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Archibald possible Maxwell (80), Crawford, Illinois, United States
• Albert Wijker (0), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Arnoldus Gerritzen (Gertzen) (79), Groessen

• 1855 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor († 1920)
• 1857 » William V. Ranous, American actor and director († 1915)
• 1858 » Adolph Ochs, American publisher († 1935)
• 1859 » Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician († 1906)
• 1860 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author († 1895)
• 1863 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright († 1938)
• 1863 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist († 1945)
• 1864 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist († 1922)
• 1869 » George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1947)
• 1874 » Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer († 1949)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

• 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.
• March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
• May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
• June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
• September 15 » American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).
• November 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
• December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

The temperature on March 12, 1862 was about 11.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.