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• Adrianus Vreugdenhil, Maasland
• Antonie van Houts, Someren († 1936)
• Adriaan van der Graaff, Scherpenisse († 1953)
• Adriaan van der Graaff, Scherpenisse († 1953)
• Alexandre BOILEUX, Avesnes-le-Sec,59296,Nord,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1863)
• Anna Maria Susanna Zeverboom, Rotterdam († 1863)
• Aale Lübbers, Lage, Niedersachsen, Germany
• Annigje Lykels Bekhof, Noordwolde, Friesland, Nederland († 1940)
• van der Schans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Sonders († 1863)

• Arien Gerritsen van de Kamp (65), Putten
• Aagtje Quist (1), Sint Maartensdijk gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Catharina Elisabeth Reijnders (79), Schinnen, Hollande
• Antonius Henricus Cornelius Baijens (5)
• Antonie Lit (1), Jutphaas, Utrecht, NL
• Adriana Maartensdr van Harten (78), Zwartewaal
• Augustus Leopold Egg (46), Algeria
• Ari‰n Gerritsen van de Kamp (65), Hell, gem. Putten
• Antonius Lambertus Jurgens, Oss
• Sonders (0)

• 1852 » Élémir Bourges, French author († 1925)
• 1854 » Maurice Lecoq, French target shooter († 1925)
• 1856 » William Massey, Irish-New Zealand farmer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1925)
• 1857 » Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon († 1929)
• 1859 » A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar († 1936)
• 1859 » Adolf Hurwitz, Jewish German-Swiss mathematician and academic († 1919)
• 1860 » André Prévost, French tennis player († 1919)
• 1866 » Fred Karno, English producer and manager († 1941)
• 1868 » King Fuad I of Egypt († 1936)
• 1873 » Dorothea Bleek, South African-German anthropologist and philologist († 1948)

• 1827 » Ludwig van Beethoven, German pianist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1858 » John Addison Thomas, American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1811)
• 1862 » Uriah P. Levy, American commander (b. 1792)
• 1881 » Roman Sanguszko, Polish general and activist (b. 1800)
• 1885 » Anson Stager, American general and businessman, co-founded Western Union (b. 1825)
• 1888 » Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
• 1892 » Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist (b. 1819)
• 1902 » Cecil Rhodes, English-South African colonialist, businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (b. 1853)
• 1905 » Maurice Barrymore, American actor (b. 1849)
• 1910 » Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)

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.
• June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
• July 13 » New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
• August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
• November 24 » American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

The temperature on March 26, 1863 was about 8.5 °C. 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 87%.