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• Aagje de reus, Oud Beijerland († 1916)
• Abraham de Jong, Leeuwarden († 1862)
• Ana Esméria da Costa Lobo, Itu, São Paulo, Brasil († 1941)
• Abraham de Jong, Leeuwarden
• Adriana Streefland, Naaldwijk
• Anna Cornelia van Zwieten, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)
• Adriana Maria Guldemond, Boskoop († 1936)
• Albert Andries Barelds, Exloërveen († 1934)
• Anna Sophia Peterson, Illinois, United States of America († 1949)
• Ana Catarina Utsch, Morro do Pilar, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 1934)

• Adriana Mols (27), Udenhout, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charlotte Cavendish Bentinck (86)
• (l.l.) Pino Post (0), Tilburg
• Alida Heijneman (1), Reeuwijk
• Carsten Aikens Pauls (52), Putten
• Albert Jansz Koomen (38), Medemblik
• Casper Snoeijers (80), Wouw,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Adrianus Van Steen (73), Lillo, Provincie Antwerpen
• Alle Wallesz Westra (74), Weststellingwerf =Wolvega, fr.nld
• Carsten Aikens Pauls (52), Putten

• 1857 » Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded Volunteers of America († 1940)
• 1860 » Elias M. Ammons, American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Colorado († 1925)
• 1860 » Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia († 1922)
• 1863 » Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian general († 1919)
• 1866 » Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer († 1938)
• 1866 » Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator († 1943)
• 1867 » Charles Dillon Perrine, American-Argentinian astronomer († 1951)
• 1872 » Albert Sarraut, French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France († 1962)
• 1874 » Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic († 1945)
• 1879 » Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party († 1966)

• 1818 » Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1746)
• 1835 » Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768)
• 1836 » Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (b. 1777)
• 1842 » Clemens Brentano, German author and poet (b. 1778)
• 1844 » Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
• 1869 » Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787)
• 1878 » George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1885 » Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (b. 1784)
• 1895 » Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803)

• 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 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
• April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
• June 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
• September 1 » American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
• November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

The temperature on July 28, 1862 was about 20.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%.