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• Adriaantje Bakker, Noordwijk († 1948)
• Anna Streefkerk, Ridderkerk († 1909)
• Adriaantje Bakker, Noordwijk († 1941)
• "Anne Marie" Marguerite Christine de Lallemant de Liocourt, Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France († 1926)
• Adriana Jozina Overbeeke, Poortvliet gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 1943)
• Aaltje Aardema, Ooststellingwerf († 1946)
• "Jeanne" Françoise Marie Thérèse De Greift, Antwerpen, Anvers, Belgique († 1938)
• Ada Rebecca Cannon, New Hope, Lincoln, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1896)
• Adriana Jozina Overbeeke, Poortvliet, Tholen, Zeeland, The Netherlands († 1943)
• "Cécile" Marie Françoise du Fou de Kerdaniel, Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France († 1916)

• Vanneste, Beselare
• Berendina Hermina Bonenberg (0), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Pietersd Van LENT (78), Dinteloord en Prinsenland
• Anna Maria Kuppens (30), Neerpelt, Limburg, 3910, België
• Adelia SEGHERS (7), Oetingen,1755,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Arend Costermans (57), Ressen (GL)
• Arie LANGEBERG (77), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hendrik Geurtsdr Speijers (65), Hien en Dodewaard (GL)
• Antonius Jacobus Vos (55), Tilburg
• Adrianus van Zoelen (20), Ommeren

• 1852 » Michael J. McGivney, American priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus († 1890)
• 1856 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist († 1917)
• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)
• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)
• 1871 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia († 1939)

• 1827 » William Blake, English poet and painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 » Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (b. 1760)
• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)

• 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 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
• February 16 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
• 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.
• June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
• September 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.

The temperature on August 12, 1862 was about 13.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.