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• Bosscha, Lioessens, Oostdongeradeel, FRI, Nederland († 1862)
• Aaltje van der Weide, Noord, gem. Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1895)
• Adriana Breugel van, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• de Smit, Wissenkerke († 1862)
• Aaltje Gelderloos, Leens, Groningen, Nederland († 1948)
• Aaltje Geerts de Vries, Dokkum († 1938)
• Aaltje van der Weide, Noord Hoogeveen Drenthe Nederland († 1895)
• Adriana Cornelia Bareman, Hoek, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1862)
• Nonna, Meester Cornelis, Java († 1885)
• Adriana Jansen, Oosterhout († 1924)

• Agatha Vlaar (42), Enkhuizen, aan de Vest
• Aaldert Pit (0), Steenwijkerwold
• Arnoldina Kessels (35), Well
• Aagje Stöckel (9), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Reiners (76), Steenwijk
• Anna Eissing (43), Aschendorf
• Bosscha (0), Lioessens, Oostdongeradeel, FRI, Nederland
• Agnes (Maria) Klooters (Clooters) (72), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Teuniszn Kooijman (81), Peursum (NL)
• Arie Kooijman (81), Peursum

• 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)

• 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 13 » The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves was passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 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 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
• November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
• 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 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

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%.