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• Adriana_Wilhelmina van der Graaf, Kralingen († 1892)
• Anna Catharina Kaag, Grootebroek
• Aaltje Bilderbeek, Zwolle,Gemeente Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1943)
• Anje Mulder, Appingedam (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Aaltje van Bokhorst, Nijkerk
• Aaltje Floris, Obdam († 1862)
• Aaltien Schuiling, Eexterveen, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Van Der GRAAF, Kralingen († 1892)
• (m) Dickel, Berghausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Abel AEILKEMA, Noordbroek Groningen Netherlands († 1946)

• Antje Kok (46), Lambertschaag, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna Bol (1), Loosduinen
• Bijlsma (0), Hennaarderadeel
• Anna.Elisabeth Eyers, Lubbeek
• Adam Lodewijk Heil (0), Beverwijk
• Alida Stekelenburg, Schoonhoven
• Adrianus Jacobus Smitt, Pasoeroean (IDN)
• Anne Louis Raoul Victor de Montmorency (71)
• Adriaan Dijstelblom (50), Nuenen, Nbr.NL
• Adrianus DIJSSELBLOEM (50), Nuenen

• 1834 » Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field's († 1906)
• 1841 » William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient († 1919)
• 1855 » Alfred Wallis, English painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1857 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop and missionary († 1926)
• 1863 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter († 1930)
• 1869 » Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator († 1959)
• 1870 » Lavr Kornilov, Russian general and explorer († 1918)
• 1879 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general († 1970)
• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)
• 1887 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining († 1957)

• 1815 » Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
• 1823 » André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
• 1842 » Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)

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.
• January 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
• March 23 » American Civil War: The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
• June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
• September 4 » American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
• December 26 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.

The temperature on August 18, 1862 was about 17.4 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.