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• Buurman-, Bemmel, Nederland († 1864)
• Albertina Batina, Germany († 1933)
• Agada Schaap, Katwijk aan Zee
• Adrianus Aloijsius Verrijt, Tilburg († 1953)
• Adrianus Aloysius Verrijt, Tilburg († 1953)
• Anje Boer, Thesinge, Groningen, Nederland († 1935)
• Adrianus Aloysius Verrijt, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Adriaan Schoonus, Helvoirt, Nederland († 1902)
• Aaltje Visscher, Steenwijkerwold († 1864)
• Anthonius Koevoets, Oudenbosch († 1945)

• Angelina Janssens (0), Molenstede
• Alida van den Berg (75), Westbroek, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aafke Fokeles Obbema (51)
• * Pieter (1) Entius (0), Lutjebroek, Noord-Holland, NL
• Albert Bolling (0), Schottershuizen, Zuidwolde
• Aaltje Dirksdr Blom (32), Obdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart KLOOSTER, VAN 'T (2), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aart van het Klooster (2), Soest
• Aaltje Frans HARTSEMA (57), Noordbroek Groningen Netherlands
• Adriaan Luteijn (1), Zuidzande, Zeeland, NL

• 1845 » Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire († 1936)
• 1847 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph († 1931)
• 1855 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)
• 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)

• 1795 » Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (b. 1740)
• 1829 » Alexander Griboyedov, Russian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1795)
• 1862 » Elizabeth Siddal, English poet and artist's model (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
• 1898 » Félix María Zuloaga, Mexican general and unconstitutional interim president (1858 and 1860-1862) (b. 1813)
• 1901 » Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Leendert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Antje
14. Neeltje
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 1 » Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
• March 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
• July 22 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
• August 10 » After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
• October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.

The temperature on February 11, 1864 was about -2.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.