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• ANNA ELISABETH VREYS († 1946)
• Anna Frederika Seepers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1928)
• Johanna Maria Vissers, Raamsdonkveer († 1936)
• Adolphine Félicie ANDRE, Feignies,59750,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Adrtiaantje Cornelia Wildeman, Hendrik Ido Ambacht († 1863)
• Alfredo Emílio Nóbrega de Oliveira, São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1946)
• Andrew Jackson Northcut, Quitman, Wood, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1934)
• Albertus Johannes Fakkert, Deventer († 1891)
• Aaltjen Bonhoff, Harderwijk,Gemeente Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland

• Aagje Weenig (52), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Swennen (56), Alken, België
• Adriana Vrinten (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• jacobus kuijsten (80), amsterdam
• Roefs (4), Oijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Thüne, Papenburg
• Albert Wilphorst (0), Helpman ( Haren )
• Kuiken (0), St. Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafje Stroomer, Zijpe (3wkn)
• Aagje Wenig (52), Rotterdam

• 1851 » Ismail Gasprinski, Ukrainian educator, publisher, and politician († 1914)
• 1856 » Frederick Winslow Taylor, American tennis player and engineer († 1915)
• 1856 » John Lavery, Irish painter († 1941)
• 1870 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general († 1964)
• 1874 » Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist († 1945)
• 1876 » Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist († 1927)
• 1879 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist († 1960)
• 1882 » Harold Weber, American golfer († 1933)
• 1882 » René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France († 1962)
• 1884 » Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher († 1966)

• 1835 » Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1849 » James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)
• 1855 » Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
• 1865 » Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)

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 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
• May 18 » American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
• July 1 » Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
• July 7 » The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
• September 20 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
• October 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The temperature on March 20, 1863 was about 5.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.