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• Adriana Gerritdina van Herpen, Nederhemert, Gelderland, Nederland († 1921)
• Adrianus Vermeij, Gouda († 1867)
• Adrianus Frederikus Lambertus van der Putten, Beek &, Donk († 1864)
• Anna Maria Smits, Rotterdam († 1920)
• Anna Maria Boekestijn, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Anna Laurie Cox Kittrell <sKs0 Pq>1 "Annie", Pitt County, North Carolina († 1900)
• Alida HESP, Abcoude-Proostdij
• Arend Boer, Vlaardingen († 1864)
• Arend Luinge, Middelstum († 1942)
• Adriaantje Van Gelder, Charlois († 1928)

• Antje DE JONGH (6), Graft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arendje Harms Woldhuis, Slochteren (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Baukje Klazes IJtsma (73), Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Olderop (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baukje Klazes IJtsma (73), Steenwijk,Gemeente Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Baukje Klaazes Ytsma (73), Steenwijkerwold
• Adriaan van Bloois (55), Zonnemaire (55jr)
• Aaltje Roelfs Ebeling (64), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan Hermansz. VAN BLOOIS, Zonnemaire
• Adriaan van Bloois (55), Zonnemaire, province of Groningen

• 1859 » John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand († 1935)
• 1861 » Konstantin Korovin, Russian-French painter and set designer († 1939)
• 1862 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist († 1900)
• 1863 » Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France († 1933)
• 1866 » John Beresford, Irish polo player († 1944)
• 1866 » Traian Demetrescu, Romanian poet and author († 1896)
• 1867 » Antti Aarne, Finnish author and academic († 1925)
• 1867 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland († 1935)
• 1868 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1869 » Ellis Parker Butler, American author and poet († 1937)

• 1791 » Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
• 1819 » Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
• 1870 » Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1887 » Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
• 1891 » Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)

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.
• 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.
• June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
• October 26 » The Football Association is founded.
• November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sanders: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside successfully defend Knoxville, Tennessee from Confederate forces under James Longstreet.

The temperature on December 5, 1863 was about 6.2 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.