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• Anna van Vondel, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1866)
• Albert PREVOT, Cherbourg († 1914)
• Adrianus Cornelis Visser, ROZENBURG (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1948)
• Anna Maria Arnold, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1863)
• Antje Eelkes Bouma, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1865)
• Antje Sytsma, Idaarderadeel Friesland Nederland
• Adrianus Janmaat, Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1937)
• Anna ♀ Valk, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1864)
• Adriana Bakker, Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Adriana Johanna Maria Saton, Schoonhoven († 1935)

• Barbara Cecilia Vlaeminck (75)
• Alexander Joseph Moyard (76), Schaarbeek, Brussel, België
• Anna Anthonijs van den Eijkel (78), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Kersten (42), Bemmel
• Benjamin Hammett Witherspoon (22)
• Anna Catharina Margaretha Schaap (34), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje de Jong (23), ouderkerk aan den ijssel (zuid holland)
• Barbara Vlaemynck (75), Werken
• Anna van den Eijkel (IJkel) (77), Rijnsburg
• Anna Verhoeff (0), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1835 » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author († 1896)
• 1839 » Sam Watkins, American soldier and author († 1901)
• 1852 » Daoud Corm, Lebanese painter († 1930)
• 1854 » Robert Laird Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada († 1937)
• 1865 » Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-American historian and author († 1959)
• 1866 » George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and banker († 1923)
• 1869 » Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author († 1954)
• 1878 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician († 1957)
• 1880 » Mitchell Lewis, American actor († 1956)
• 1881 » Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright († 1960)

• 1808 » Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (b. 1748)
• 1810 » Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
• 1830 » George IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• 1836 » Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (b. 1760)
• 1856 » Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (b. 1806)
• 1870 » Armand Barbès, French lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
• 1878 » Mercedes of Orléans (b. 1860)
• 1879 » Richard H. Anderson, American general (b. 1821)
• 1883 » Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)
• 1918 » Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (b. 1843)

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.
• 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 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
• June 9 » American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
• July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
• July 16 » American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
• 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.

The temperature on June 26, 1862 was about 19.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%.