About the day » Tuesday November 8, 1864Calender converter

• Alberta Wilhelmina van Eijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1865)
• Agnes VERSCHUEREN, Meer(B) († 1943)
• Aletta Maria Manten, Loosdrecht († 1946)
• Aagje Lieve, Nieuwenhoorn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Adriana Koolen, Ossendrecht, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1921)
• Adriana Baks, 's-Gravendeel, Nederland
• Aafje Elsinga, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland († 1926)
• Anna Amelia Mertens, Wilmarsdonk
• Alfred Lloyd BRAITHWAITE, Bradford, Yorkshire, England († 1922)
• Alida Wijnker, Sijbekarspel († 1954)

• Warries (0), Dieverbrug, Dwingeloo
• Adriaan Kik (25), Nieuwerkerk gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Anna Alberts Assen (66), Coevorden, Drente, Nl
• Amand Hyacinthe Bongarde (Bongaarde) (44), Bergen (L)
• Reinders (0), Wachtum Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Ann Brace #10969**06 (74), Hereford, Herefordshire, England
• Anna Maria Abels (2), Helmond
• Arie Roelofsen (78), Kesteren (Neder-Betuwe) 53
• Angenietje Kruijk (82), Vierpolders
• Anna Sara de Mooij (0), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1847 » Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula († 1912)
• 1847 » Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician, 6th President of France († 1907)
• 1848 » Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher († 1925)
• 1854 » Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic († 1919)
• 1855 » Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1939)
• 1866 » Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company († 1941)
• 1868 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1878 » Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist († 1951)
• 1881 » Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1883 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet († 1953)

• 1817 » Andrea Appiani, Italian painter and educator (b. 1754)
• 1828 » Thomas Bewick, English engraver, illustrator and author (b.1753)
• 1830 » Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
• 1873 » Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1796)
• 1887 » Doc Holliday, American dentist and poker player (b. 1851)
• 1890 » César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Robert Battey, American surgeon and academic (b. 1828)
• 1901 » James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1815)
• 1905 » Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
• 1917 » Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)

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 1 » Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
• May 7 » The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 31 » During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
• 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.

The temperature on November 8, 1864 was about -2.2 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.