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• Arend Reinders, Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland († 1943)
• Adrianus de Bruin, Boskoop († 1862)
• Albertus Bakker, Warns-Hemelumer Oldeferd
• Kwak, Wisch (Oude IJsselstreek) (GL) († 1862)
• Arend de Wijs, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Adrianus van Elzakker, Bergen op Zoom († 1944)
• Anna Bergakker, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1939)
• Antonie de Rooij, Hoeven (NL) († 1916)
• Antonius Hubertina Daenen, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Westerink, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1946)

• Annigjen Klaver (42), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aleida Giesen (73), Raalte
• Antonio Ambrosio Arango Botero (77), Manizales, Caldas, Colombia
• Ariaantje Klos (64), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van der Heijden (48), Didam
• ?? Wigman (0), Rotterdam
• Antje Koornstra (1), Schoonoord (Sleen)
• Anna de Bruijn (80), Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aletta van Zutphen, (0), utrecht
• Antonius Janssens (50), Austruweel, Provincie Antwerpen

• 1856 » Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian († 1915)
• 1857 » Alexander of Battenberg († 1893)
• 1858 » Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds († 1915)
• 1859 » Reinhold Seeberg, German theologian († 1935)
• 1860 » Harry S. Barlow, British tennis player († 1917)
• 1862 » Leo Stern, English cellist († 1904)
• 1862 » Louis Ganne, French conductor († 1923)
• 1863 » Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine († 1950)
• 1867 » Ernest Lewis, British tennis player († 1930)
• 1869 » Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer († 1942)

• 1842 » Shah Shujah Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1785)
• 1852 » Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (b. 1800)
• 1861 » Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1862 » Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (b. 1803)
• 1865 » Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (b. 1806)
• 1866 » Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (b. 1798)
• 1868 » Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (b. 1834)
• 1871 » Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (b. 1798)
• 1872 » Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (b. 1812)
• 1873 » Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (b. 1824)

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 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
• April 29 » American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
• June 19 » The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
• September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
• December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

The temperature on April 5, 1862 was about 10.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.