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• Antonie Dijns, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1863)
• Adaline Hammond Hobart, Royalton, Waupaca County, WI, United States († 1937)
• Amelia Verstraete, Oekene,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1934)
• Johanna van Luenen, Gendt
• Aart Teseling, Scherpenzeel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna BREDIUS, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1897)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Gertudis van Geloven
• Aaltje Pieters Profijt, Hollandscheveld, Drenthe, Nederland († 1898)
• Antje van Oers, Driel († 1952)
• Arij Rodenburg, Kethel, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1862)

• Arij Zonneveld (51), Schiedam
• Arij Zonneveld (51), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan van de PAAL (79), Gestel en Blaarthem, Eindhoven, 3547, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• arij SONNEVELD (51), mathanesse
• Antje van den Berg (48), 'S Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Zuijderduijn (0), Katwijk
• Albertje de Roos (25), Onstwedde (gem. Stadskanaal)
• Arij Sonneveld (51), Oud-en Nieuw Mathenesse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie Matze (74), Boskoop
• Aart van Arkel (Erkel) (80), Herwijnen (GD)

• 1844 » Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1900)
• 1844 » James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer († 1896)
• 1846 » Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant († 1888)
• 1848 » Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse († 1912)
• 1868 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright († 1955)
• 1874 » Charles Fort, American author († 1932)
• 1877 » Wallace H. White Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1952)
• 1880 » Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer († 1964)
• 1881 » Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1881 » Leo Carrillo, American actor († 1961)

• 1815 » James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (b. 1767)
• 1828 » Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
• 1850 » Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 » John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 » James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1893 » Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
• 1904 » Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)
• 1906 » George Waterhouse, English-New Zealand politician, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (b. 1841)
• 1920 » Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)

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.
• March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
• March 8 » American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
• May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
• May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
• June 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
• December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

The temperature on August 6, 1862 was about 18.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.