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• Aleida van de Berg, Hattem († 1863)
• Aleida van der Haar, Deventer, Nederland († 1924)
• Alida Aplonia Sibbel, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Abram Christiaanse, Leiden († 1928)
• Adriaan Cornelis Volker, Sliedrecht († 1935)
• Adriaan van den Brand, Nieuwkuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1865)
• "Geoffroy" Marie Joseph Henri de Virieu, Paris († 1933)
• Adriaan van den Brand, Nieuwkuijk
• Adriana van den Meiracker, Bergen opZoom. Noord Brabant († 1864)
• Adrianus Mol, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Catharina Jannetje Scheepmaker (1), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Dirks de Vries (69), Weststellingwerf, Vinkega
• Aaltje van Ruijtenbeek (62), Utrecht
• Anna Elisabeth Mols, Mol 2400, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Leijdekkers, Nieuw-Vossemeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend KARSSENBERG (23), Geesteren GLD)
• Adrianus Vaasen, Budel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Moorlag (14), Bourtange
• Anna Margaretha Giesen (65), Rotterdam
• (Jean) Francois DUPONT (53), Herstal, Liège, Belgique

• 1844 » Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman († 1924)
• 1848 » Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor († 1905)
• 1850 » Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer († 1896)
• 1852 » J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic († 1919)
• 1852 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1911)
• 1856 » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist († 1927)
• 1860 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator († 1900)
• 1870 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia († 1891)
• 1871 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1883 » Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist († 1931)

• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)

• 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.
• May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
• June 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• July 19 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
• September 6 » American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
• September 20 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
• November 18 » King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.

The temperature on August 30, 1863 was about 14.7 °C. There was 17 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.