About the day » Monday January 5, 1863Calender converter

• Adriaantje de Zeeuw, Heerjansdam († 1925)
• * Anna Maria van Duijnhoven, Gemert († 1895)
• Aloysius VAN Overloop, WAASMUNSTER
• Aart van Triest, Elburg († 1863)
• Aagje Ariens Pijper, Ter Aar († 1949)
• Aart (Aard) van Triest, Elburg († 1863)
• Angeleta Turner, Pennants, Clarendon, Jamaica († 1956)
• Anna Catharina GYSELS, Schilde, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1927)
• Aaltje Steenhuis, Wildervank, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 1926)
• Albertus KREMER, Annen (Anloo), Drenthe, Nederland

• Antonius de Groot (6), Voorhout
• Anthonius de Groot (6), Voorhout
• Arie van der Willik (9), Boskoop
• Antonetta Arendina Scholten (54), Rhienderen (Brummen)
• Albert Jans Goudbeek (56), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Anna Hibbert (76), England
• Berend Jan Grijzen (0), Goor
• Anna Catharina Bogaards (59), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amy Tucker (71), Cedar County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Goudbeek, Oldebroek

• 1846 » Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized († 1878)
• 1846 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
• 1855 » King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company († 1932)
• 1864 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and manager († 1911)
• 1867 » Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece († 1922)
• 1871 » Frederick Converse, American composer and academic († 1940)
• 1874 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1876 » Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany († 1967)
• 1879 » Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic († 1946)
• 1880 » Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer († 1951)

• 1823 » George Johnston, Scottish-Australian colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
• 1845 » Robert Smirke, English painter and illustrator (b. 1753)
• 1846 » Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)

• 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.
• February 17 » A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
• March 30 » Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
• July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
• September 7 » American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore captures Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a 7-week siege.
• September 19 » American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
• November 26 » United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.

The temperature on January 5, 1863 was about 8.8 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.