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• Adriaan Johannes Dorrestein, Bunnik († 1933)
• Anna Magdalena PRETORIUS
• Aagtje Ootjers († 1863)
• Adriana Klasina Tuinenburg, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
• Aaltje Ezendam, Enterbroek, Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1930)
• Aafke Jannes Kloeze, Ruinen († 1926)
• Aldegonda van Rooij, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Aafke Kloeze, Ruinen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna van den Boogaard, Schijndel
• Aaltje Van VUUREN, Lekkerkerk († 1943)

• Alphonsus Vos (2), Eindhout 2430(Belgie)
• Adriana Schilperoord (71), Zuidland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baukje TROSTE (51), Workum
• OOSTING (0), Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Brand Brandsen (65), Harderwijk, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bouwe Oetses Drijfhout (19), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Houwing (2), Anloo, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adriana Cornelisd SCHILPEROORD (71), Zuidland
• Adriaan Aarnoudse (52), Sint Philipsland (52jr)
• Albertje Derks Schuur (82), Slochteren

• 1863 » Bob Fitzsimmons, English-New Zealand boxer († 1917)
• 1865 » Robert W. Chambers, American author and illustrator († 1933)
• 1867 » Mary of Teck, English-born queen consort of the United Kingdom († 1953)
• 1873 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator († 1958)
• 1876 » Percy Perrin, English cricketer († 1945)
• 1880 » W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator († 1967)
• 1881 » Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 († 1955)
• 1883 » Mamie Smith, American singer, actress, dancer, and pianist († 1946)
• 1886 » Al Jolson, American singer and actor († 1950)
• 1887 » Ba U, 2nd President of Burma († 1963)

• 1818 » Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785)
• 1818 » Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1761)
• 1824 » Capel Lofft, English lawyer (b. 1751)
• 1840 » Sidney Smith, English admiral and politician (b. 1764)
• 1881 » Jakob Bernays, German philologist and academic (b. 1824)
• 1883 » Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian ruler (b. 1808)
• 1902 » Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (b. 1839)
• 1904 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
• 1914 » Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)

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 22 » The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
• January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
• 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 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
• June 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
• November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sanders: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside successfully defend Knoxville, Tennessee from Confederate forces under James Longstreet.

The temperature on May 26, 1863 was about 15.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.