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• Adrianus Weltevrede (Weltevreede), Brielle († 1930)
• Anna Van Hoof, Bosvoorde, Watermaal-Bosvoorde, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk gewest, Belgium († 1938)
• Alva Evans Davis, Lyle, Mower Co, MN († 1933)
• van Sluis, Middelburg († 1862)
• Anna Cornelia Gommeren, Rucphen († 1889)
• (w) Fritsche, Laasphe, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1862)
• Alberdina Willemina Onstenk, Steenderen († 1869)
• Albert van der Weide, Westerborg
• Adriana Arnolda van der Ploeg, Vianen
• Anna Wilhelmina Frederika Matthes, Amsterdam († 1910)

• Albertus Reinders Steenman (80), Vaassen
• Aaltje Soest (76), Bunschoten
• Adriana Jana Pijnenburg (90), Goirle,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Adriana de Jong (70), Alkemade, Nederland
• Haak (0), Groningen
• Adriana van Helden (54), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Albert Libbes Zijlstra (39), Oudwoude, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana PEIJNENBORG (87), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van HELDEN (54), Rotterdam
• Albert Steenman (Reinders) (80), Vaassen

• 1838 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln († 1865)
• 1841 » James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster († 1918)
• 1843 » Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright († 1920)
• 1847 » Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic († 1923)
• 1855 » Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator († 1936)
• 1872 » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist († 1950)
• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)

• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)

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 23 » American Civil War: The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
• 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 1 » American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.
• May 12 » American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.

The temperature on May 10, 1862 was about 13.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.