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• Albert Jan ten Hove, Heerde (buurtschap Markluiden) († 1864)
• Catharina Maria Pelger, Rotterdam
• Barbara Rissler, Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Barend Veenendaal, Ede († 1938)
• Anna Maria Van Soest, Meerlo († 1945)
• Akke Roelofs Baaima, Lemsterland († 1932)
• Arie van Haren, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Bernardus Krommendijk
• * Jacob Post, Vlaardingen († 1951)
• Anna Maria Stroot, Roermond, Nederland († 1937)

• Antje Romkes Kuipers (31), Kollum
• Carel Francis Hubert Keetels (0), Venlo
• Anje Harms ter Veer (57), Adorp
• Anskje Weenings (1), Akkrum, gem. Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernard IJzebrands Van Hogten (45), Vierhuizen
• Anskje(n) Gerrits Weenings (1), Utingeradeel
• Antje BLOM (6), Oosternijkerk (Oostdongeradeel) Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Maria de Blaaij (42), Axel
• Alida van Toor (74), Leiden, Nederland
• Albertinus Hazelhoff (0), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1836 » Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author († 1904)
• 1844 » John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer († 1890)
• 1852 » Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show († 1938)
• 1867 » Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1873 » Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1944)
• 1875 » Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1879 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist († 1949)
• 1880 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player († 1971)
• 1883 » Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France († 1945)
• 1884 » Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician († 1964)

• 1813 » Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (b. 1755)
• 1834 » Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (b. 1784)
• 1836 » James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
• 1880 » Texas Jack Omohundro, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846)
• 1881 » Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798)
• 1889 » Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (b. 1818)
• 1892 » Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Greek Foreign Minister (b. 1810)
• 1913 » Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1914 » Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1914 » Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868)

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.
• January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
• May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
• December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
• December 31 » American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

The temperature on June 28, 1862 was about 16.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.