About the day » Wednesday December 21, 1864Calender converter

• Anna Catharina VOLCKAERTS => BECKX, Baal (B) († 1909)
• Aagje Rood, Heerhugowaard
• Hage, Wolphaartsdijk
• Aaltje Harms Booij, Avereest († 1926)
• Alfons Jacobs, Retie († 1955)
• Annie Roop, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 1949)
• Aart Groothuizen, Maarn († 1934)
• Adriaantje Nobel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Anna Christina Knibbeler, Zutphen († 1943)
• * Cornelis Hakkesteegt, Hoornaar († 1949)

• Allegonda Schoonings (60), Udenhout
• ANTJE GALEMA (59), NAALDWIJK
• Alida FloriSon (1), 's-Gravenhage
• Andries Thijs Andries Schonewille (10), Hoogeveen
• Antonia (80), Wamel
• Angelus Deronne (34), Semmerzake
• Adrianus Gerardus Kruijt (41), Heukelum
• Antje Galijma (59), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Spinhoven (2), Amsterdam
• Anna Gerritdina Klompenhouwer (48), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1851 » Thomas Chipman McRae, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Arkansas († 1929)
• 1857 » Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales († 1932)
• 1859 » Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic († 1936)
• 1866 » Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and political activist († 1953)
• 1868 » George W. Fuller, American chemist and engineer († 1934)
• 1872 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1872 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian priest and composer († 1956)
• 1872 » Trevor Kincaid, Canadian-American zoologist and academic († 1970)
• 1876 » Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales († 1975)
• 1877 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar († 1954)

• 1807 » John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725)
• 1824 » James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 » Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 » Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

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.
• April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
• April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
• April 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
• May 15 » American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
• June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• September 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.

The temperature on December 21, 1864 was about -0.5 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.