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• Aarendina Waanderina Nijendijk, Okkenbroek, Diepenveen, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1934)
• Anna Maria van der Horst, Stompwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van der HORST, Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Gerarda Nichting, Vinkeveen en Waverveen († 1940)
• (w) Weber, Volkholz, Kreis Wittgenstein
• ANNIGJE HARTKAMP, Steenwijkerwold
• Andrew Greet NGRE03.AND05AD, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England († 1941)
• Aarendina Waanderina Nijendijk, Diepenveen († 1934)
• Antje Hanzes Zandstra, Oostermeer, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1910)
• Anna Maria Horst van der, Stompwijk, ZH, Nederland

• Anna Koolen (43)
• Anna Catharina Mertens (57), Baarle-Nassau (NL)
• Anna Catharina Hollander(s) (40), gulpen
• Adriana van GEEL (25), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Aarts (0), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Alphons Adrianus Alphonsus van Meerendonk, van (18), Gemeente Tilburg Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Coletta Johanna Limonard (45)
• Anna Koolen (43), Boxtel
• Boele Reints DE BOER (54), Veendam Groningen Netherlands
• Adriaan Holman Holleman (72), Hardinxveld

• 1852 » Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein († 1913)
• 1854 » Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian († 1938)
• 1854 » Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet († 1900)
• 1855 » Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense († 1931)
• 1861 » J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar († 1927)
• 1861 » Richard Sears, American tennis player († 1943)
• 1863 » Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1867 » Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa († 1963)
• 1869 » Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author († 1930)
• 1872 » Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore († 1942)

• 1796 » Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)
• 1799 » Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760)
• 1810 » Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founded the Breslov Hasidic group (b. 1772)
• 1822 » Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724)
• 1877 » Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823)
• 1888 » John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
• 1904 » Haritina Korotkevich, Russian heroine (b. 1882)
• 1908 » Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)
• 1909 » Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)

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.
• 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.
• May 21 » Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
• June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
• 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.
• November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

The temperature on October 16, 1864 was about 7.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.