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• Aaggien BOLT, Ten post († 1864)
• Alidanus van Willigen, Noord Waddinxveen
• Anna Maria Jacobsd Huizinga, Groningen, gr.nld († 1938)
• Adolph Beisser, Semarang
• Amelia KESTENS, Pamel
• Annigje Wichers Oort, Giethoorn, Netherlands († 1953)
• Hanstede, Rijssen († 1863)
• Anna Maria Stroethoff, Weesp († 1954)
• Aartje Geertruida Rodijk, Apeldoorn († 1944)
• Anna Maria Hendrika Willemina Venter, Winburg Oranje Vrijstaat SA († 1885)

• Arie van Donselaar (80), Langbroek
• Carolina Luyckx (66), Beerzel
• Arie de Wit, Stein, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana de Vries (62), Jutphaas
• Sterk (0), Nieuwland
• Arie Voorzaat (1), Rotterdam
• Amelberga Browaeys (79), Bottelare
• Arie de Wit (52), Stein
• Catharina Schellekens, Hooge en Lage Mierde
• Anne Wigram (67), Mark Hall, Latton, Essex, England

• 1850 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist († 1914)
• 1851 » Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate († 1925)
• 1853 » Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician († 1905)
• 1856 » José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan journalist and politician, President of Uruguay († 1929)
• 1860 » Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1927)
• 1861 » Abel Ayerza, Argentinian physician and academic († 1918)
• 1863 » Archduke Eugen of Austria († 1954)
• 1864 » Princess Stéphanie of Belgium († 1945)
• 1873 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic († 1941)
• 1878 » Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer († 1930)

• 1844 » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
• 1858 » José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)
• 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)

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. Petronella
16. Jacoba

• 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.
• April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
• May 21 » American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
• September 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sanders: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside successfully defend Knoxville, Tennessee from Confederate forces under James Longstreet.
• December 16 » American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

The temperature on May 21, 1863 was about 13.9 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.