About the day » Thursday August 7, 1862Calender converter

• Abraham Preijer, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Aafje Johanna Maria Groen in 't Woud, Leiden, Nederland († 1932)
• Aaltje Mients de Haan, Zwaagwesteinde, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1936)
• Alberta Ann Tipsword, Effingham County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1864)
• Angele Marie Eugénie BOURGEOIS, Annoeullin,59112,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE († 1888)
• Andreas Franciscus WILS, Putte, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1948)
• Schulte, Wesuwe, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1862)
• Adriana de KLERK, Rucphen († 1938)
• Albertine Johanna barones Sloet van Oldruitenborgh, Vollenhove,Gemeente Steenwijkerland,Overijssel,Netherlands († 1863)
• Aafje Johanna Groen in 't Woud, Leiden

• Antonius Verheggen (66), Neerpelt
• Anna VAN ZUTHEM (44), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hasselman (51), Amsterdam
• Arij Nieuwstraten (80), Vlaardingen
• Antoine Geensen (85), Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anne Hubertine Driesmans (38), Sint-Truiden, België
• Amedeus van de Cauter (0), Temse
• Come André Retrou (69), Gennevilliers, Francia
• Alida Maria Beemer- (0), Werkhoven, Nederland
• Alida Maria Beemer (0), Werkhoven, Utrecht, NL

• 1844 » Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author († 1911)
• 1860 » Alan Leo, English astrologer and author († 1917)
• 1862 » Henri Le Sidaner, French painter († 1939)
• 1862 » Victoria of Baden († 1931)
• 1867 » Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator († 1956)
• 1868 » Huntley Wright, English actor († 1941)
• 1868 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician († 1931)
• 1869 » Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician († 1959)
• 1876 » Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy († 1917)
• 1879 » Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer († 1931)

• 1817 » Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
• 1834 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 » Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 » Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 » Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)

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.
• 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 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.
• June 19 » The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
• December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

The temperature on August 7, 1862 was about 13.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.