About the day » Wednesday December 7, 1864Calender converter

• (Stillborn) STOKER, Ooststellingwerf Friesland Netherlands († 1864)
• Adriana van Ast, Poortvliet, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hessels, Terheijden († 1900)
• Anna de Leeuw, Woerden
• Albertus Otten, Collendoorn († 1950)
• Adriana van Ast (Asten)
• Anna Gesina BEINS, Zutphen,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Abraham johannes Koorneef, delft wijk 5 no, 349 († 1865)
• Ambroise Alexandre JOLY, Jussy,02480,Aisne,Picardie,FRANCE († 1865)
• *Anna Cornelia Kil, Ossendrecht († 1869)

• Visée (0), Tiel
• Adriana van der Heijden (44), Oudenbosch
• Adriaan Hermanusz Hartog (76), Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltien Willemsen (75), Hessem
• Aaltje Willems (75), Hessem (Dalfsen)
• Albert Aries Smit (38), Middelstum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus van Slooten (77), Dokkum (Friesland) NL
• Adrianus Slooten, van (77), Dokkum
• Adriaan Hartog (76), Oegstgeest
• Aart Kuik (0), Hardinxveld,Gemeente Hardinxveld-Giessendam,South Holland,Netherlands

• 1860 » Joseph Cook, English-born Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia († 1947)
• 1861 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I († 1931)
• 1862 » Paul Adam, French author († 1920)
• 1863 » Felix Calonder, Swiss soldier and politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation († 1952)
• 1863 » Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor († 1945)
• 1863 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears († 1914)
• 1869 » Frank Laver, Australian cricketer († 1919)
• 1873 » Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet († 1947)
• 1878 » Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer († 1942)
• 1879 » Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic († 1972)

• 1817 » William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745)
• 1837 » Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (b.1814)
• 1842 » Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
• 1874 » Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815)
• 1879 » Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
• 1899 » Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
• 1902 » Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
• 1906 » Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)

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 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
• February 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
• April 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
• August 22 » Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
• September 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
• November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

The temperature on December 7, 1864 was about 3.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.