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• de Vries, Leiden († 1863)
• Antonie Verberne, Asten († 1951)
• (Stillborn) Doorlag, Blijham, Nederland († 1863)
• Albarta Antonia Daalmeijer, Amersfoort († 1868)
• Anna Maria Albarta Bouwman, Wageningen († 1918)
• Aaltje Jans Post, Het Bildt († 1934)
• Abram Weijburg, Utrecht, Pauwsteeg († 1931)
• Anna Catharina MARIËN, Retie, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1950)
• Albertus Cornelisz Kwakman, Vollenhove, ov.nld († 1864)
• Annechien Reitsema, Hoogemeeden († 1942)

• Vis (0), Monster, Nederland
• Baukjen Pieters de Jong (26)
• Berend Jan Bosch (45), Terwolde (gem.Voorst)
• (Stillborn) Doorlag (0), Blijham, Nederland
• Ariaantje Middelkoop (8), Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Helena Josephina Langenhoff (0), Roermond, Nederland
• Ariaantje Middelkoop (8), Schoonrewoerd
• Berend Jan Bosch (Bos) (45), Voorst (Terwolde)
• Abraham Auerbach (9), Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Berend Rosendal (64), Kleine Kerksteeg (Hoogeveen) 167

• 1854 » Milan I of Serbia († 1901)
• 1857 » Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager († 1937)
• 1860 » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist († 1940)
• 1860 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk († 1940)
• 1862 » Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer († 1918)
• 1867 » Charles Francis Jenkins, American inventor († 1934)
• 1867 » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist († 1939)
• 1868 » Willis R. Whitney, American chemist († 1958)
• 1873 » Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher († 1928)
• 1874 » Max Scheler, German philosopher and author († 1928)

• 1818 » Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 » Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 » Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1888 » Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1817)
• 1891 » Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
• 1903 » Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1904 » Kate Chopin, American novelist and poet (b. 1850)
• 1909 » Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (b. 1846)
• 1914 » Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian bishop and academic (b. 1859)

• 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.
• July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
• September 7 » American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore captures Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a 7-week siege.
• September 8 » American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
• October 26 » The Football Association is founded.
• November 19 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• December 16 » American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

The temperature on August 22, 1863 was about 17.9 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.