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• Anna Maria Catharina Buijs, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1875)
• Antje Jans van Zaane, Zaandam († 1935)
• Anna Bal, Zierikzee
• Anna Maria Reintjens, Houthem († 1948)
• Abraham Halberstadt, Amsterdam (NL) († 1907)
• Antonius van OSS, Leeuwen (tot 1818) Wamel (tot 1985) West Maas en Waal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1891)
• Angelina ROZEBOOM, Ede, Gelderland, Netherland († 1934)
• Agnes Maria HONNEF, Hönningen Rhein, Duitsland
• Andries Stelling, linschoten († 1935)
• Anna Catharina Martens, Kerkrade,Gemeente Kerkrade,Limburg,Nederland († 1937)

• Bernardine Josèphe Doyen (84), Pietrain
• Adriana Klaarebeek (52), Nieuwer-Amstel, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Barentina Hulsthoff (67), Banjoemas, Midden-Java (Nederlands Indië)
• Catharina Leduc (54), Maastricht
• Ann Hendriks (0), Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus van Geffen (63), Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Loos (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan van der Weel (6), Brouwershaven
• Anna Maria van der Eerden (66), Sint-Michielsgestel
• Arien Lintner (0), Opheusden, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1849 » Maria Theresa of Austria-Este († 1919)
• 1862 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1942)
• 1865 » Lily Braun, German author and publicist († 1916)
• 1869 » Liane de Pougy, French-Swiss dancer and author († 1950)
• 1876 » Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist and academic († 1933)
• 1876 » Wilhelm Cuno, German businessman and politician, Chancellor of Germany († 1933)
• 1877 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate († 1962)
• 1877 » Rinaldo Cuneo, American artist ("the painter of San Francisco") († 1939)
• 1881 » Royal Hurlburt Weller, American lawyer and politician († 1929)
• 1884 » Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist and author († 1931)

• 1833 » Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (b. 1757)
• 1843 » Samuel Hahnemann, German physician and academic (b. 1755)
• 1850 » Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
• 1857 » Carlo Pisacane, Italian soldier and philosopher (b. 1818)
• 1903 » Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1912 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1914 » Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
• 1915 » Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1920 » William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
• 1926 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)

• 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.
• 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.
• February 7 » HMSOrpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
• May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
• May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
• September 8 » American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.

The temperature on July 2, 1863 was about 14.3 °C. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.