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• Albert PRIMETT, Ickleford, Hitchin, Hertfordshire († 1936)
• Aaltje van Aller, Ermelo († 1934)
• Adriaan Cornelis Broers, Goirle († 1891)
• Adriaan Cornelis Broers, Goirle († 1891)
• Adrianus Driesse, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus van Leeuwen, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1896)
• Anna Catharina Rosalia Van Velthoven, Schoten († 1928)
• Adela Blum († 1943)
• , Missouri, United States († 1944)
• Adrianus Verhagen, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1933)

• Abraham Schuite (0), Hoedekenskerke, Nederland
• Adriana van Houtum (11), Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Rademaker (19), Sandebuur (Roden)
• Anna Gort (3), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jansdr. van Gemert (50), 's.Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Stam (4), Wedde
• Anne Aukes Klaver (72), Kollumerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna de Leeuw (53), Zevenbergen
• Arie Blanken (57), 's Heeraartsberg en bergambacht
• Anna van Gemert (50)

• 1845 » George Kennan, American journalist and explorer († 1924)
• 1848 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic († 1935)
• 1848 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright († 1917)
• 1856 » Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia († 1920)
• 1866 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager († 1940)
• 1868 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer († 1952)
• 1873 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author († 1908)
• 1876 » G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic († 1962)
• 1878 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss († 1920)
• 1878 » Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator († 1951)

• 1820 » Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
• 1862 » William Pennington American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
• 1898 » Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
• 1899 » Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Grietje
10. Wilhelmina
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Petronella
16. Jacoba

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
• July 18 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
• August 16 » The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
• August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
• September 6 » American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
• November 19 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on February 16, 1863 was about 6.8 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.