About the day » Saturday January 16, 1864Calender converter

• Abram Koomen, Assendelft († 1864)
• * Adriaan van Zantvoort, Schijndel
• * Cornelia Gloria de Ruiter, Hardinxveld
• Adrianus van Zantvoort, Schijndel († 1915)
• Adrianus Hooijmans, Veur († 1950)
• Aimée Marcelline Pionneau, Mézières, 08290, France
• Adrianus Hooijmans, Veur
• Aagje Westera, Zwollerkerspel, Nederland († 1946)
• Aloysius Debruyne, Klerken West-Vlaanderen, België
• Albertje Slomp, Havelte, Drente, Nederland

• Adriana Johanna Bauduin (83), Dordrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan Geerts (45), Hooge en Lage Mierde
• Aartje Nugteren (0), Ridderkerk
• Anna Jacoba Lindhout (0), Oud-Vossemeer
• Aebeltien Feijensz Wiekel (74), Hijkersmilde (Smilde)
• Aaltje Dalstra (0), Achtkarspelen
• Anna Jacobs (74), Deventer
• * Adriana Merkx (24), Well
• Adriana Westbroek (51), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje van Eck (59), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1851 » William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1936)
• 1853 » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company († 1931)
• 1853 » Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English general († 1947)
• 1853 » Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager († 1937)
• 1870 » Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia († 1942)
• 1872 » Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor († 1973)
• 1874 » Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author († 1958)
• 1875 » Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician († 1949)
• 1876 » Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer († 1937)
• 1878 » Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1947)

• 1834 » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
• 1856 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
• 1864 » Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)
• 1865 » Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (b. 1828)
• 1879 » Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
• 1891 » Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
• 1901 » Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)

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.
• April 17 » American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
• April 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
• May 15 » American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
• June 29 » At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• August 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
• September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.

The temperature on January 16, 1864 was about -5.1 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.