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• Adriaan Vos, Emmikhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1863)
• Aalbert Doornekamp, Hoevelaken († 1935)
• Catharina Frances Lambton († 1952)
• Andries Johannes Konst, Mirns en Bakhuizen (GAA), Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1941)
• Aleida Slijkhuis, Laren (Gelderland) († 1943)
• Augustina LANGENHORST, Harlingen
• Camiel Francies Verschooris, Melle († 1942)
• Anthonius Gerardus van Boxtel, Utrecht († 1935)
• Antoon Verhallen, Den Dungen († 1947)
• Antoine Alexandre DIRICK, LIEGE, Liège, Belgique

• bernard berben (37), meijel
• Angeline Anthoon (44), Olmen, België
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Waltman (73), IJzendijke
• Cornelia Helsloten (78), Vreeswijk
• Cornelia Helslooten (77), Vreeswijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Lacroix (0), Nieuwenhoorn, Nederland
• Albert Jonker (0), Apeldoorn
• Anna Catharina Volker (60), Lathen, Emsland
• Carl Frans Nicolas Fischer (1), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria van Abeelen (39), Loon op Zand

• 1847 » Jesse James, American outlaw († 1882)
• 1856 » Thomas E. Watson, American lawyer, publisher, and politician († 1922)
• 1867 » Amy Beach, American pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1871 » Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)
• 1872 » Horace Rice, Australian tennis player († 1950)
• 1872 » V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician († 1936)
• 1873 » Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer († 1942)
• 1874 » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1876 » Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal († 1956)
• 1880 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr († 1936)

• 1836 » Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (b. 1790)
• 1838 » Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorator (b. 1764)
• 1857 » Auguste Comte, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1798)
• 1876 » Manuel Blanco Encalada, Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790)
• 1877 » Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (b. 1849)
• 1894 » George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer (b. 1822)
• 1898 » Sarah Emma Edmonds, Canadian-American nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
• 1901 » Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1902 » Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1844)

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 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
• 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.
• May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
• August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• September 13 » American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
• October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on September 5, 1862 was about 12.6 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.