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• Anna Maria Everaerts, Nieuwerkerken, België
• Anna Catharina Graaff, Haarlem
• Albert Beekman, Beekbergen
• adrianus gerardus van zijl, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1863)
• Aart van Zeeburg, Doornspijk († 1928)
• Aart Zeeburg, doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1928)
• Alida Jonker, Veendam († 1937)
• Albert Padberg, Kallenhardt, Westfalen, Duitsland († 1943)
• Anna Helena Schulte, Nieuw-Schoonebeek, DRE, Nederland († 1864)
• Anne JOUARDET, Velet, 70529, Haute Saône, Franche-Comté, France

• Aagje Opperman (43), Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart van Mastrigt (7), Emmickhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aletta Boer (13), Vlaardingen
• Anna Geertruida Jacobs (37), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Ledegem, Erembodegem
• Arend (Arent) Spitholt (75), Almen (Gorssel)
• Arend Ruiterkamp - Spitholt (75), Almen (Gorssel)
• Anna Withaagen (75), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Smeets (67), Echt
• Arend Ruiterkamp-Spitholt (75), Almen

• 1863 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor († 1940)
• 1872 » Alice Salomon, German social reformer († 1948)
• 1873 » Sydney Barnes, English cricketer († 1967)
• 1874 » Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist († 1952)
• 1877 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor († 1934)
• 1879 » Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner († 1957)
• 1882 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil († 1954)
• 1883 » Henry Jameson, American soccer player († 1938)
• 1883 » Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist († 1953)
• 1885 » Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect († 1975)

• 1824 » Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
• 1831 » Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
• 1833 » James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)
• 1840 » Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
• 1854 » Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)
• 1881 » Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
• 1893 » Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
• 1901 » Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1903 » Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)

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.
• February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
• April 7 » American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
• May 12 » American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• June 5 » As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
• July 4 » Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.

The temperature on April 19, 1862 was about 14.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.