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• Catharina Wilhelmina Piekaar, Den Haag
• Anna Catharina Verhoeven, Baardwijk
• Anton Kels, Landkreis Mettmann, Ratingen, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Betje Fuld, 's-Gravenhage († 1943)
• Arie Machiel Been, Rotterdam († 1906)
• Christina Cornelia Zandwijk, Vledderveen, Vledder, Drenthe, Nederland († 1930)
• Charles E Schultz, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1932)
• Anna Goedegebuure, St. Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1931)
• Amos Franklin Seabaugh, Sedgewickville, Bollinger County, Missouri, United States of America († 1958)
• Aaldert Gerrits van der Sleen, Tiendeveen (Beilen) († 1866)

• Aaltje Berends Mulder (39), Finsterwolde
• Antonius den Ouden (51), Hoogland
• Adriaantje Neven (0), Lekkerkerk
• Andries Groen (58)
• Baukjen Jans Boonstra (0), Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Cathalina Johanna Stroes (3), Colijnsplaat
• Anna Johanna Berkhout (31), Amsterdam
• Antonie van Pesselen (10), Jutphaas, Utrecht, NL
• Charles Joseph Pauwels (67), Wervik, West-Vlaanderen (B)
• Angelina Rosalia Heijens (61), ,, Axel, Nederland

• 1854 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods († 1914)
• 1860 » Frank Eaton, American marshal and author († 1958)
• 1865 » Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman († 1912)
• 1869 » Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil († 1957)
• 1871 » Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer († 1941)
• 1873 » A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bangladeshi-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Pakistani Minister of Interior († 1962)
• 1873 » Thorvald Stauning, Danish union leader and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark († 1942)
• 1874 » Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American philanthropist, founded the Museum of Modern Art († 1948)
• 1874 » Martin Lowry, English chemist and academic († 1936)
• 1875 » H.B. Warner, English actor († 1958)

• 1806 » John Graves Simcoe, English general and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
• 1817 » Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Dutch-Austrian chemist and botanist (b. 1727)
• 1864 » William T. Anderson, American captain (b. 1838)
• 1866 » John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer, founded the Labatt Brewing Company (b. 1803)
• 1871 » Robert Anderson (Civil War), American general (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1826)
• 1896 » Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French philosopher, academic, and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1902 » Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841)
• 1919 » Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864)

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 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
• 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.
• June 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
• September 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
• November 29 » American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

The temperature on October 26, 1864 was about 11.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.