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• Aaltje Gelderloos, Leens, Groningen, Nederland († 1948)
• Aaltje de Vries, Dokkum († 1938)
• Adriana Nieboer, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1932)
• Abraham Kruithof, Mijnsheerenland († 1939)
• Adriana Jansen, Oosterhout († 1924)
• Adrianus Franciscus van Riel, Tilburg
• Anthonij Graauwmans, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1862)
• Adriana Cornelia van Ginderen, Woensdrecht († 1919)
• Adriana Cornelia Van Ginderen, Woensdrecht († 1919)
• Anna Cornelia Sitters, Standdaarbuiten († 1927)

• Arend Jan Reef (66), Elsen, Markelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arnoldus Reiners * (76), Steenwijk
• Antje Heins Bakker (77), Finkum
• Arnoldina Kessels (35), Well
• Arend Jan Reef (66), Elsen (Markelo), Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Kooijman (81), Peursum
• Arie Teunisse Kooijman (81), Peursum
• Arie Teunisse Kooyman (79), Peursum
• Aagje Stöckel (9), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaldert Pit (0), Steenwijkerwold

• 1849 » William R. Day, American jurist and politician, 36th United States Secretary of State († 1923)
• 1852 » Cap Anson, American baseball player and manager († 1922)
• 1863 » Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician and theorist († 1940)
• 1865 » Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus († 1939)
• 1866 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic († 1927)
• 1875 » Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War († 1941)
• 1877 » Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat († 1949)
• 1878 » Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Greek tennis player († 1942)
• 1878 » Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman († 1961)
• 1879 » Henri Tauzin, French hurdler († 1918)

• 1799 » Richard Jupp, English surveyor and architect (b. 1728)
• 1840 » Hannah Webster Foster, American journalist and author (b. 1758)
• 1843 » Samuel Morey, American engineer (b. 1762)
• 1882 » George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810)
• 1888 » E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
• 1892 » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
• 1921 » Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1852)
• 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)

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.
• March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
• May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
• May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
• June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• July 16 » American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
• August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The temperature on April 17, 1862 was about 7.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.