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• Alida Johanna Grossenbach, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland († 1868)
• Anna Sohl, Hanover, Germany († 1949)
• Alix Constance Henriette LYSEN, Antwerpen
• Anna van den Berg († 1867)
• Adriana Elisabeth Voetée, Hardinxveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1910)
• Aafke Hazekamp, Zevenhuizen (Leek) († 1936)
• Adriaan Moelker, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1947)
• Agnes de GROOT, Leiden
• Anna Hartgers († 1940)
• Alida Schilder, Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1864)

• Ariejaantje van Dijk (80), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Flier (69), Wijk aan Zee en Duin, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Sprado (66)
• Ariaantje van Dijk (80), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertina Bollaerts, Kaggevinne Assent
• Albertine Bollaerts, Kaggevinne-Assent
• Albertus Cooijmans (5), Den Dungen
• Rijnier Ratelland (70), Nieuwkoop
• Adriana Pieter Brasser (65), Westkapelle, Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands
• antje jacobs zantinga (57), helpman(gem. haren)

• 1850 » Richard Butler, English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia († 1925)
• 1856 » George Leake, Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Western Australia († 1902)
• 1857 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist († 1924)
• 1857 » Mathilde Kralik, Austrian pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1863 » Gussie Davis, African-American songwriter († 1899)
• 1864 » Herman Heijermans, Dutch author and playwright († 1924)
• 1867 » William John Bowser, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of British Columbia († 1933)
• 1872 » Arthur Charles Hardy, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate († 1962)
• 1872 » William Haselden, English cartoonist († 1953)
• 1875 » Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator († 1955)

• 1876 » Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
• 1882 » Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)
• 1888 » Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
• 1890 » Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 » Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)
• 1894 » Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850)
• 1902 » Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (b. 1833)
• 1904 » David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (b. 1821)
• 1912 » Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)

• 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 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
• May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
• May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
• August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
• October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.

The temperature on December 3, 1864 was about 1.6 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.