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• Aafke Jacobs DOORNBOS, Stedum, Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland († 1870)
• Aleida Albertha Hoveman, Meppel
• Albert van der Linde, Ijzevoorde
• Abels Mels Graveland, Ouderkerk aan de IJssel († 1933)
• Albert Winfield Lohr, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania († 1956)
• Aaltje Jans BARTELS, Zaandam († 1934)
• Aafje Maria Deen, Grootebroek († 1941)
• Aaltje Geers, Boskoop, Zuid Holland, NL († 1897)
• Albert Lamberts Luchies, Krakeel C460, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1947)

• Aldegundis Catharina Spoorenberg (68), Eindhoven
• Aletta de Gooijer (77), Veenendaal-Gelders
• Anthonie Bakkenes (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Rykeles Vriesinga (31), Drogeham, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anneken Beukes (67), Voorst
• Antje~Ales Aardsma (0), Ingwierrum
• Anna Geertruij WENSEL, Nieuwer Amstel
• Antje van der Pijl (9), Rhenoy, Beesd
• Aldegundis Catharina Spoorenberg (68), Eindhoven
• Anna Catharina Matthijssen (66), Zundert

• 1838 » Léon Gambetta, French lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of France († 1882)
• 1840 » Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist († 1902)
• 1841 » Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III († 1926)
• 1842 » Dominic Savio, Italian Catholic saint, adolescent student of Saint John Bosco († 1857)
• 1861 » Iván Persa, Slovenian priest and author († 1935)
• 1862 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1869 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager († 1928)
• 1875 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler († 1940)
• 1875 » William Donne, English cricketer and captain († 1942)
• 1884 » J. C. Squire, English poet, author, and historian († 1958)

• 1817 » Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (b. 1740)
• 1827 » Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and educator (b. 1776)
• 1845 » Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1763)
• 1865 » A. P. Hill, American general (b. 1825)
• 1872 » Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (b. 1791)
• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)

• 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 11 » American Civil War: CSSAlabama encounters and sinks the USSHatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
• May 2 » American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
• October 14 » American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
• October 31 » The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.
• November 17 » American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege.
• November 23 » American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.

The temperature on April 2, 1863 was about 7.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%.