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• Andries Vervoort, Waspik, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Folst, Schiedam
• Adrianus Roelands, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1927)
• Andries Jans Meijer (Meyer), Bergum, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1941)
• Adrianus Petrus Collignon, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• , ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gerritsen Mulkes, Zuna, gemeente Wierden († 1863)
• Aaltje Beerepoot, Blokker, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Adrianus Freen, Middelharnis
• Andries Jans Meyer, Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1941)

• Anna-Klasina Nauta (76), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adriana Kros (0), Sliedrecht
• Annetje Dirksdr Hoek (91), Katwijk
• Aagje Martinusdr. Schenk (70), Wateringen
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• Annechien Jans Bos (67), Veendam,Gemeente Veendam,Groningen,Nederland
• Ambrose Bonham (80)
• Adriana Groenenwegen (0), Sliedrecht
• Adriaan van Leeuwen (0), Westzaan
• Albertje Jurriens (60), Assen

• 1845 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1936)
• 1847 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph († 1931)
• 1855 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)

• 1795 » Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (b. 1740)
• 1829 » Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)
• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)

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 17 » American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
• 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 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
• 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.
• August 16 » The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
• November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

The temperature on February 11, 1863 was about 6.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.