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• Adriaan Huijgh, Schoondijke
• Anna Maria Strootman, Assen († 1944)
• Bot, sliedrecht (zuid holland)
• Angelica THIMPONT, Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1936)
• Aloysius Joris, Oorderen († 1955)
• Alef Van der Tuin, Leek,, Groningen, Nederland († 1941)
• Adolf Bode, Banfe, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Christina Weijll, Woubrugge († 1907)
• , Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1923)
• Alef van der Tuin, Leek († 1941)

• Catharina Joannis Biemans (72), Bakel en Milheeze, Noord-Brabant, Pays-Bas
• Anna Maria Driesen (85), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Eltje Willems (61), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Elisabeth Clerx (34), Terheijden
• Bote Eeltjes Folkertsma (5), Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Hulst (3), 's-Gravenmoer
• Albert Croese (60), Soerabaja, Java, Indonesia
• Bote Folkertsma (5)
• Antonius van Eijndhoven (29), Grave
• Anna Overholt (82), Rainham, Ontario, Canada

• 1846 » Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French lawyer and politician, 68th Prime Minister of France († 1904)
• 1847 » Deacon White, American baseball player and manager († 1939)
• 1859 » Georges Seurat, French painter († 1891)
• 1860 » Charles Studd, England cricketer and missionary († 1931)
• 1863 » Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus († 1926)
• 1866 » Harry Burleigh, American singer-songwriter († 1949)
• 1876 » Yusuf Akçura, Tatar-Turkish activist and ideologue of Turanism († 1935)
• 1884 » Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand soldier, lawyer, and judge († 1953)
• 1884 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet and author († 1958)
• 1885 » George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)

• 1814 » Marquis de Sade, French philosopher, author, and politician (b. 1740)
• 1844 » Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1849 » Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1792)
• 1859 » John Brown, American abolitionist (b. 1800)
• 1881 » Jenny von Westphalen, German author (b. 1814)
• 1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
• 1888 » Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1892 » Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (b. 1836)
• 1899 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician, 1st Governor of Bulacan (b. 1875)
• 1918 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)

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. Jacoba
16. Petronella

• 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.
• January 22 » The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
• April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
• May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
• July 4 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Confederate invasion of U.S. territory.
• July 19 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
• September 16 » Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.

The temperature on December 2, 1863 was about 5.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.