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• Aafke Ales Brandsma († 1863)
• Anna Rijsdijk, IJsselmonde († 1937)
• Adrianus Luijendijk, abbenbroek (zuid holland) († 1863)
• Anna Maria Joosten, Bergen, Limburg, Nederland, Nederland
• Anthony Leendert Albert Thierry, Voorburg († 1867)
• Alida Maria BROUWER, Weesp († 1864)
• Adriana DE VROOME DE VROOM, Hoogblokland (NL/ZH) († 1928)
• Adriana. van Poepering, Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1943)
• Weenings, Surhuizum († 1863)
• Abel Moedt, siddeburen († 1941)

• Weening (0), Surhuizum, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adam van Os (63), Wamel, West Maas en Waal, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Carl Joseph Schröder ongehuwd (41), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Arnold Joseph DECORTIS (0), Liège, 62063, Liege, Belgique
• Anna Egberink (36), Hengelo
• Andreas Corsten, Overveen
• Albertus Hendricus van Broekhuizen (28), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje de Jong (65), Wognum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Louis Dewaghe (70), Eperlecque, dep.Pas de Calais, Frankrijk
• Weenings (0), Surhuizum

• 1841 » Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna († 1887)
• 1853 » Carl Larsson, Swedish painter and author († 1919)
• 1858 » Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch († 1939)
• 1872 » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer († 1917)
• 1878 » Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer († 1945)
• 1879 » Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist († 1958)
• 1883 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village († 1978)
• 1883 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician († 1966)
• 1884 » Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia († 1948)
• 1886 » Santo Trafficante, Sr., Italian-American mobster († 1954)

• 1805 » Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 » Richard Hurd, English bishop (b. 1720)
• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1904 » Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)

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.
• 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.
• July 9 » American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi River.
• August 4 » Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
• September 8 » American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
• September 16 » Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
• 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 28, 1863 was about 19.4 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.