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• Gaatze Annes Tol, Kooten († 1935)
• Adrianus Jacobus van der Hoorn, Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Adrianus Jacobus Hendriks, Breda († 1932)
• Agnes MacDonald Graham***, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 1948)
• Aaltje Eikenaar, Zalk en Veecaten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1938)
• Abraham van Houten, 's-Gravenhage († 1947)
• Adriaan Boekel, Medemblik († 1950)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Frissen, Sint Pieter († 1931)
• Anna Violet Cavendish-Bentinck († 1932)
• Adriaan Boekel, Medemblik, Nederland († 1950)

• Aafke Pieters Hoekstra (74), Meppel
• Albert Groote (1), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands
• Akke Willems de Boer (61), Metslawier
• Adriaantje Fase (58), Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Martina van Herwaarden (39), Nijmegen 062
• Aalbert Eijkelenboom (74), Brandwijk
• Anna Freerks (77), Harkstede (Slochteren
• Anna BORGHMANS (66), Etten-Leur (N.Br. Nl)
• Anna Catharina Smulders (54), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• van Holstein (0)

• 1846 » Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician († 1915)
• 1855 » John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company († 1926)
• 1857 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist († 1936)
• 1862 » David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician and academic († 1943)
• 1862 » Frank Shuman, American inventor and engineer († 1918)
• 1872 » Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik Parliament († 1957)
• 1872 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic († 1946)
• 1876 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1878 » Rutland Boughton, English composer († 1960)
• 1880 » Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Mexican politician († 1967)

• 1810 » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1812 » Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (b. 1764)
• 1820 » Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
• 1833 » Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (b. 1757)
• 1837 » John Field, Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1866 » Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 » Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 » Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 » José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 » Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)

• 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.
• May 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
• June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• July 11 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
• August 31 » During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
• September 29 » The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.

The temperature on January 23, 1864 was about 9.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.