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• Aartje Zoelen, Apeldoorn (Gld) Nederland († 1933)
• Andr. Johannes van Os († 1889)
• Adrianus Moerman, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1862)
• Aarnout Drabbe, Hoek († 1941)
• Jan Molewijk, Raamsdonk († 1944)
• Aaltje Koops Puite, AEngwirden, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Paita, Gremone, Frankrijk
• Alice Jane Maria Olorenshaw BLABEY, Milang, South Australia, Australia († 1901)
• Adriana van Beek, Maartensdijk
• Anna VUIJK NOORLAND, Streefkerk, Gemeente Liesveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1862)

• Albert Roelofs Veldhuizen (40), Boijl
• Adrianus Hoogerwerf (65), Overschie
• Anna Cristina Nijhof (30), Loenen (Apeldoorn)
• Antonia Sins (37), Made
• Antonie van der Most (1), Ridderkerk
• Adriana Cornelia van der Kleij (35), Voorburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Roelofs Veldhuisen (40), Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Koorn (0), De Koog
• Anna Dorothea Joosten (21), Helden
• Adriana Rauda Borkus (3), Gouda (Gouda), Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1854 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager († 1933)
• 1859 » August Herrmann, American executive in Major League Baseball (d.1931)
• 1860 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist († 1940)
• 1867 » Andy Bowen, American boxer († 1894)
• 1867 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1870 » Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein († 1948)
• 1871 » Emmett Dalton, American criminal († 1937)
• 1873 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine († 1945)
• 1874 » François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty, Inc. († 1934)
• 1874 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic († 1954)

• 1839 » Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
• 1856 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
• 1856 » Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
• 1910 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 1916 » Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
• 1916 » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
• 1916 » Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)

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 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
• April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
• July 4 » Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
• July 18 » First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
• October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on May 3, 1862 was about 14.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%.