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• Adriana Karolina Munnikhof, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Anna de Visser, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kemmann, Zwolle († 1919)
• " Alphonse " Constant REYROLLE, Juillac,19350,Corrèze,Nouvelle-Aquitaine,FRANCE († 1919)
• Anna Cornelia Johanna Maria Kuijlaars, Breda
• Adriaan Cornelis de Vos, Kloetinge († 1934)
• Adrianus Boots, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1865)
• Addo Arthur Wolfgang Addens, Dlyleme Elime Jochen, Finland († 1918)
• Adriana Karolina Munnikhof, oud beijerland († 1866)
• Andries de Best († 1865)

• Arie van Pelt (0), Oud-Beijerland
• Agatha Gerharda Dornseiffen (34), Franeker
• Anna Charlotta Elisabet Hisinger (68), Stockholm
• Berendina Kuiper (63), 's-Heerenberg
• Adriana Roverts (1), Lexmond, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Charlotte LEFEVRE (77), Cernay-en-Dormois, 51800, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne
• Adriana Roverts (1), Lexmond
• Arie de Koning (4), Rijnsburg
• Antoon Roording (83), Angerlo (Zevenaar)
• "Sosthène" Louis François de La Rochefoucauld (79), château d'Armanvilliers

• 1848 » Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist and poet († 1919)
• 1850 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician († 1910)
• 1857 » Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish author and playwright († 1942)
• 1858 » Helen Churchill Candee, American journalist and author († 1949)
• 1864 » Louis Lumière, French director and producer († 1948)
• 1873 » Lucien Mérignac, French fencer († 1941)
• 1877 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1878 » Louise Dresser, American actress († 1965)
• 1879 » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic († 1945)

• 1813 » Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
• 1827 » William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (b. 1761)
• 1848 » Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and politician (b. 1781)
• 1861 » Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1778)
• 1880 » Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1885 » Thomas C. Durant, American railroad tycoon (b. 1820)
• 1895 » Ralph Tollemache, English priest (b. 1826)
• 1913 » Hans von Bartels, German painter and educator (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Albert Solomon, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1876)
• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)

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.
• February 27 » American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
• July 29 » American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
• August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
• October 2 » American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
• October 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
• October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.

The temperature on October 5, 1864 was about 11.8 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.