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• ? ? († 1863)
• Aaftje Pouwiel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1921)
• Albartus Dusseljee, Westerlee († 1935)
• Aaltje Pasterkamp, Urk († 1942)
• Aaltjen Willems Pasterkamp, Urk († 1942)
• Albartus Dusseljee, Westerlee (Scheemda) († 1935)
• Adriaan, Stompwijk
• Adriana Colijn, Drongelen, Noord Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Colijn, Drongelen
• "Jeanne" Marie Pauline Victurnienne de Rougé, Moreuil, Somme, France († 1956)

• * Levenloos kind Smit (0), Vreeswijk, Utrecht, NL
• ANTJE LOOIJE (84), NAALDWIJK
• Anna Maria Voets (72), Schijndel
• Anna Maria van Gelder (30), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia van Broekhoven (2), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Dekker (33), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• amélie HECTOR (39), Cuesmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Annie BURDON (0), Poplar, London, England
• Antje Willemsd. Looije (84), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Andries Douwes Bijlsma (66), Leeuwarden

• 1841 » James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster († 1918)
• 1843 » Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright († 1920)
• 1847 » Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic († 1923)
• 1855 » Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator († 1936)
• 1872 » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist († 1950)
• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)
• 1886 » Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author († 1968)

• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)

• 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.
• May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
• May 22 » American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
• June 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• October 14 » American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
• November 25 » American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
• November 26 » United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.

The temperature on May 10, 1863 was about 18.5 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%.