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• Alfred William Ayers, St. Andrew Less, Cambridge, England († 1926)
• Anna den Houdijker, Benschop († 1906)
• Adriana Klasina Maat, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1938)
• Anna Helena Burggraaf, Haarlemmermeer (NH NL)
• Adrianus Bruijnseels, Woensdrecht († 1945)
• Adrianus Bruijnseels Bruijnzeels, Gemeente Woensdrecht, NL
• Aaltje Hendriks Fransbergen, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Kuik, Hardinxveld († 1864)
• Jansen, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1864)
• Anthonie Vendel, Schermerhorn, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1932)

• Barend Stemberg (68), Utrecht, Nederland
• Amy Frances Oatley (38), Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Doornekamp (2), Nijkerk
• Aleksandr Fiodorovich Galitzine (68), Saint-Pétersbourg, Russie
• Antje Keimpes Hoekstra (57), Strobos, Friesland, Nederland
• Adolf Clarenburg (72), Utrecht
• Amand Joseph Hoyos (66), Boussu, Hainaut, Belgique
• Antonetta Teeuwen (72), Venray, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anne Marie Vanderelst (35), Herent, 3020, België
• Aaron AMAR (0), Alger, Algérie

• 1840 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker († 1917)
• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)
• 1848 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Swiss Confederation († 1919)
• 1850 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician († 1908)
• 1866 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China († 1925)
• 1872 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer († 1947)
• 1881 » Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1881 » Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect († 1948)
• 1886 » Ben Travers, English author and playwright († 1980)
• 1886 » Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer († 1975)

• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
• 1916 » Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
• 1933 » F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
• 1933 » John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)

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 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
• April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
• July 22 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
• November 25 » American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
• December 4 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta.
• December 10 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

The temperature on November 12, 1864 was about -2.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.