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• Aaltje van der Klis, Nigtevecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1944)
• Aafke Venema, Drachten, Friesland, Nederland († 1944)
• Aaron Robert Edwards, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England († 1925)
• Antoinetta Johanna Moot, Utrecht († 1929)
• Angeline Archambeau, Hastings, Ontario, Canada († 1934)
• Anna (2) Zaanen, Alblasserdam, 2952 AL, Nederland († 1863)
• Antje van 't Veer, Assendelft NH NL
• Amanda Annette Statser, Argyle, Lafayette, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1946)
• Adrianus van Witzenburg, Schiedam, Nederland († 1935)
• Arend Kuik, Beilen, Nederland († 1934)

• Augusta Maria Theresia Stadlmair (17), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nl
• Aafien Smit (40), Groningen
• Ariën Beekhuis (1), Epe
• Barbara (Barbe) Geurts (74), Maasbree
• Axel Hellmuth Joachim KORTÜM (31)
• Arie Uijttenbroek (74), Zegwaart, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Wilhelmus Breukel (1), Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus (Berend*) Brunink (57), Losser, Marke
• Berendine Derks (57)
• Adolphe Emile Vandamme (0), Zegerscappel, 59666, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

• 1853 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia († 1908)
• 1856 » Tom O'Rourke, American boxer and manager († 1938)
• 1857 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)
• 1868 » Sumner Paine, American target shooter († 1904)
• 1869 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer († 1944)
• 1877 » Robert Hamilton, Scottish international footballer († 1948)
• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)

• 1807 » Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1721)
• 1809 » Beilby Porteus, English bishop (b. 1731)
• 1832 » Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (b. 1769)
• 1835 » John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)

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 1 » American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
• February 17 » A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
• April 17 » American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
• 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.
• May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
• November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

The temperature on May 13, 1863 was about 12.0 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.