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• Aartjen Klaassen, Harderwijk († 1863)
• Aleida Maria Cornelissen, Gendt (Lingewaard) († 1936)
• Anna Helena Nagel, Wesuwe, Haren (Ems) († 1863)
• Anje Mantjes, Meeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1936)
• Adiaan Jacobus Schild, Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands († 1945)
• Aloysius Josephus Moris, Heist-op-den-Berg 2220, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Alexander Kruseman († 1934)
• Schild, Leiden († 1945)
• Adriana Elisabeth van der Meer, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Adrianus Franciscus Bastiaenssens, Oorderen

• Abraham de Waard (46), Haringhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Angela van de Ven (68), Boxtel
• Anna Maria Susanna Zeverboom (0), Rotterdam
• Anthonius van Bern, Wijk bij Duurstede
• Alijda Luttenberg (61), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida Brama (2), Voorhout, Nederland
• Alle Klazes de Jong (75), Oudemirdum
• Agatha Maria Groenestege (1), Steenwijkerwold
• Abram van Dalen (58), Middelharnis
• Alle Klases de Jong (75), Oudemirdum, Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland

• 1845 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1856 » Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France († 1951)
• 1860 » Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)
• 1862 » Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist († 1957)
• 1868 » Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer († 1944)
• 1876 » Erich Raeder, German admiral († 1960)
• 1878 » Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter († 1958)
• 1879 » Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer († 1984)
• 1880 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper († 1954)
• 1880 » Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist († 1964)

• 1794 » Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)
• 1852 » Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
• 1889 » Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)
• 1891 » Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)

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 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
• May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
• June 14 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
• July 4 » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
• August 4 » Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
• October 31 » The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.

The temperature on April 24, 1863 was about 11.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%.