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• Aaltje de Weerd, Hoogkerk († 1908)
• Aaltje Visser, Epe
• Adriana Willemina van Twist, Dordrecht
• Alida Maria de Graaff, Aalst gem. Poederoijen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1895)
• Anna Gertrud Wermes, Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems) († 1887)
• Aaltje Visser, Epe († 1925)
• Anna Maria Brokke, Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Adriana Goverde, Zevenbergen († 1880)
• Andreas Simons, Tilburg, 5042 PZ, Nederland († 1935)
• Abraham Poulus Chardon, Bleiswijk († 1918)

• Vreugdenhil, Loosduinen
• Adriaan de Bruijn (10), Etten-Leur, Nederland
• Aaltien Reinders (98), Tolbert
• Adriana Roepers (70), Willemstad
• Albert Nooij (26), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alida Coesveld (77), Leiden
• Adriaan Cornelisz Flipse (64), Herkingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Veenstra, Beetsterzwaag
• Adriana Roepert (70), Willemstad,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertina Emilia de Milliano (63)

• 1848 » Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter and illustrator († 1926)
• 1854 » Ioannis Psycharis, Ukrainian-French philologist and author († 1929)
• 1856 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist († 1919)
• 1856 » Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer († 1917)
• 1857 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic († 1911)
• 1859 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1906)
• 1862 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright († 1931)
• 1863 » Frank Hornby, English businessman and politician, invented Meccano († 1936)
• 1869 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales († 1921)
• 1869 » Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter († 1945)

• 1845 » Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, Head of State of Costa Rica (b. 1800)
• 1879 » Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b. 1803)
• 1886 » Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (b. 1830)
• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)

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.
• May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
• June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• July 23 » American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
• September 2 » American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
• November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
• November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

The temperature on May 15, 1862 was about 16.4 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.