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• Anna Maria Josephina Wattele, Austruweel, Provincie Antwerpen
• Aafje Ouwehand, Katwijk († 1866)
• Anatolie Johanna Haast, Etten en Leur (NL) († 1865)
• Anna Catharina Kellner, Mill en Sint Hubert
• Alphonsius Dobbelaer, Kemseke († 1938)
• Aagje Jorissen, Rotterdam († 1868)
• Agatha Maria van Echtelt, Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1946)
• Adolfina Teunissen, Bennekom (Ede), Gelderland, Nederland († 1900)
• Aaltje van Dijk, Hattem († 1867)
• Aaltje van Dijk († 1867)

• Anna, Brigitta ALGOET (74), Wingene,8750,West-Vlaanderen,Wvl, België
• Antonia Ebbeng (7), Andelst (GLD), Nederland
• Anne Jans Heida (41), Mildam
• Adriana Cornelia Heck (1), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Sophia Engel (66), Tilburg
• Aletta Johanna Dop (2), Amsterdam
• Carolina Sophia Vanlerberghe (63), Dixmude
• Andries Antonius Smit (44), Egmond aan Zee, Nederland
• Anna Nieuwenhuis (41), Groningen
• Betje Godschalk Gobes (58)

• 1842 » Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American lieutenant and composer († 1891)
• 1856 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1924)
• 1865 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter († 1925)
• 1870 » Charles Bennett, English runner († 1949)
• 1882 » Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician († 1944)
• 1882 » Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter († 1931)
• 1887 » Werner Kolhörster, German physicist and academic († 1946)
• 1888 » F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1931)
• 1890 » Quincy Wright, American political scientist, historian, and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author and playwright († 1981)

• 1859 » Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (b. 1800)
• 1872 » James Van Ness, American lawyer and politician, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1808)
• 1890 » Dennis Miller Bunker, American painter (b. 1861)
• 1897 » William Corby, American priest and academic (b. 1833)
• 1900 » Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)
• 1907 » Louise Granberg, Swedish playwright (b. 1812)
• 1913 » Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Turkish journalist and translator (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1918 » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet and journalist (b. 1865)

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.
• March 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
• May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
• June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
• 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 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
• October 15 » American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.

The temperature on December 28, 1864 was about -0.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.