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• Antoon Joseph Dumont, Bocholtz († 1862)
• Alida Maria De Wet, Harrismith, OFS, South Africa
• Anna Maria van Rosmalen, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1938)
• Antoinette ABE, La Roche-sur-Foron, Rhone-Alpes, France († 1939)
• Adrianus Franciscus Raaijmakers, Gilze en Rijen († 1945)
• Andriesje Baas, Smilde, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Andreas Timmermans, Baarlo († 1953)
• Arentje Bakker, Terwispel († 1940)
• Arentje Pieters Bakker, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltien Wildeboer, Meppel

• dirkje GROENEWOUD (33), mijnsheerenland
• Camil Vanneste (0), Beernem West-Vlaanderen
• Bernardus DEGENKAMP (25), Hazerswoude
• Dirk van der Kemp (24), Amsterdam
• Ameliana Francisca WAERKELLE (70), Westkapelle,West Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Dirk Anton van Vuuren (0), Nieuw-Helvoet
• Aaltien Westerbeek (1), Meppel,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Barbara Schimmel (0), Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Duitsland
• Christian Treude (0), Weidenhausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Alphonse Gustave Baudry (3), Versailles, 78000, FRANCE

• 1840 » John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician († 1929)
• 1850 » Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic († 1926)
• 1856 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia († 1919)
• 1860 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer († 1935)
• 1863 » Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist († 1922)
• 1867 » Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1947)
• 1871 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar († 1929)
• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)
• 1886 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright († 1964)
• 1887 » Rupert Brooke, English poet († 1915)

• 1835 » Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1767)
• 1839 » Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (b. 1763)
• 1857 » Eugène Sue, French author and politician (b. 1804)
• 1866 » Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)

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 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 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
• July 18 » First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
• August 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
• September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.

The temperature on August 3, 1862 was about 18.8 °C. There was 17 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 68%.