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• Annigje van de Streek, Kamperveen, Nederland († 1953)
• Andries Zaalberg, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1900)
• Annegje van de Streek, Kamperveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1953)
• Ann MacLeod, Lower Bayble, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis, UK († 1929)
• Anna Emerentia Maria Van De Wiel, Wilmarsdonk
• Ana Cândida de Campos, Tietê, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anne Marie Melanie Simons, Neerlanden, België
• Anna Maria Hanssen, Ubach over Worms (L († 1865)
• Albertus Antonius Ehl Weurdinge, Gramsbergen († 1937)
• (2) Maria Magdalena Knopf, Königssee (Brn) Duitsland († 1931)

• Antonie Driessen (0), Culemborg, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antonia van Overveld (54), Rucphen, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Schutte (27), Zutphen, Gld, The Netherlands
• Carolina Maximiliana Maria Theodora Susanna VAN LAER VAN HOENLO (52), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Catharina Los (0), Alkemade, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Geertruida van Weerdenburg (67), Alphen
• Alexander Lagerwaart \ Lagerwaard \ Lagewaart (48), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolph Hendrik Anthonie Bakker (0), Delft
• Carolina Maximiliana Maria Theodora Susanna barones van Laer van Hoenlo (52), Arnhem (GLD) NL
• Carolina Maximiliana Maria Theodora Susanna van Laer van Hoenlo (52), Arnhem

• 1860 » John D. Batten, British painter, printmaker and illustrator (d.1932)
• 1863 » Edythe Chapman, American actress († 1948)
• 1864 » Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter and educator († 1955)
• 1870 » Louis Vierne, French organist and composer († 1937)
• 1872 » Mary Engle Pennington, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer († 1952)
• 1873 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect and academic, designed Lenin's Mausoleum († 1949)
• 1873 » Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer († 1967)
• 1875 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player and golfer († 1919)
• 1876 » Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician († 1966)
• 1877 » Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter († 1968)

• 1802 » Emmanuele Vitale, Maltese general and politician (b. 1758)
• 1804 » Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1777)
• 1809 » James Elphinston, Scottish orthographer, phonologist, and linguist (b. 1721)
• 1821 » Juan O'Donojú, last Spanish ruler of Mexico (b. 1762)
• 1834 » François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 » Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 » Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 » Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 » Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1928 » Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)

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.
• 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 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
• 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.
• October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
• October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
• December 16 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

The temperature on October 8, 1864 was about 12.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.