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• Aaltje Plekkenpol, Harfsen († 1862)
• Adriaan Nijsse, Heinkenszand († 1862)
• Adrianus van Baak, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Adolfina Femmia Strous, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland († 1921)
• Aagtje ROZEMA, Groningen († 1865)
• Anna Maria BAFROEY, Jette,1090,Bruxelles,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Jacob Hemminga, Dokkum
• Anna Hubertina Heidendal, Ubach over Worms, Landgraaf († 1942)
• Carolus Van Meer, Nieuw-Vossemeer († 1931)
• Aaltje Plekkenpol, Harfsen (Lochem) († 1862)

• Anna Maria KUIJPERS (19), Vessem,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elzabeen Christina Bernhardina Roskott (42), Denekamp
• Arnold Borghans (81), Lichtenberg gem. Schaesberg
• Aaltien Alberts Homan, Yde
• Abraham Versluis (1), Wissenkerke
• Alida Levina VELUWENKAMP (0), Onbekend
• Antje (1) Bakker, Midwoud (Medemblik)
• Arie Verweij (29), Haarzuilens, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anne Grant Neck (59), Dittisham, Devon, England
• Alida Stroomberg (24), Hasselt, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1853 » Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony († 1902)
• 1857 » Clara Zetkin, German theorist and activist († 1933)
• 1857 » Julien Tiersot, French musicologist and composer († 1936)
• 1860 » Mathieu Jaboulay, French surgeon († 1913)
• 1860 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State († 1919)
• 1862 » George Nuttall, American-British bacteriologist († 1937)
• 1862 » Horatio Caro, English chess master († 1920)
• 1864 » Stephan Krehl, German composer († 1924)
• 1867 » A. E. Douglass, American astronomer († 1962)
• 1872 » Édouard Herriot, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1957)

• 1819 » William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b.1744)
• 1826 » Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
• 1833 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
• 1859 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
• 1862 » Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
• 1863 » Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
• 1884 » Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
• 1908 » Jonas Lie, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1833)
• 1920 » Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• 1927 » Albrecht Kossel, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)

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 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
• March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
• April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
• April 29 » American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
• 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.
• November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.

The temperature on July 5, 1862 was about 15.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.