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• Anna Hulda Schubert, Mount Torrens, South Australia († 1936)
• Adrianus Franciscus Blom, Niftrik († 1871)
• Adriana Christina Huisman, Overschie (ZH-NLD) († 1955)
• Amanda Josephine Redwine Dishman [K 7], Symsonia, Graves County, Kentucky († 1930)
• Adriana Westerweel, brouwershaven (z) († 1877)
• Abraham BAKER, Galena Stone County Missouri U.S.A († 1937)
• Aafje Ruiter, Berkhout, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1916)
• Adriana Christina Huisman, Overschie († 1955)
• * Antonius (Antonie) van Sluisveld, Elshout († 1929)
• Anna Catharina Antonia Belet, Sint-Truiden, België († 1950)

• Agatha Schouten (67), Sijbekarspel
• Angela Schiff (65), Schweich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Agatha (Aagje) Schouten (66), Sijbekarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Antoine Vinet (67), Ste Martine, Quebec, Canada
• Aaltje Kuiper (49), Harderwijk
• Aartje van den Heuvel (51), Genderen
• Anna, Catharina Goor (79), Roosendaal
• Amelia van Cauwenberghe (60), Schellebelle, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adriaan Vinkenborg (64), Doetinchem-Stad, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Mechtildis Steegmans (0), Grevenbicht

• 1851 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System († 1931)
• 1866 » Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist († 1930)
• 1870 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician († 1933)
• 1870 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian († 1958)
• 1870 » Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet († 1925)
• 1878 » C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India († 1972)
• 1882 » Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1945)
• 1882 » Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1950)
• 1883 » Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic († 1973)

• 1831 » Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1850 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 » Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
• 1865 » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)

• 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.
• August 10 » After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
• September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.
• October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.
• 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.
• November 30 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin.

The temperature on December 10, 1864 was about 2.8 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.