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• Anna Cornelia van den Anker, IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland († 1947)
• Adriana Johanna Holtzer, Steenbergen († 1864)
• Adriana de Groot, Lexmond (Zederik), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Maria Bakker, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland († 1942)
• Annetje Westerveld, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1943)
• Akiba Biallosterski, Amsterdam († 1922)
• Agatha Maria Stokman, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1865)
• Aleida Berendina Groote Wassink - Gaikhorst, Harfsen († 1942)
• Anna Petronella Awater, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1918)
• Anna Huizer, Kapelle Zld. Nederland († 1951)

• Adam Handcock (18), Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria van Luijn (66), Utrecht
• Arie Antonie van den BERG (56), 's-Gravenzande (Z-H)
• van Kwawegen (0), IJsselmonde, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Pieters Du Bois (49), Franeker, Friesland, Nederland
• anna VERLOOP (2), nieuw-beijerland
• Andrew Dorsey (74), White County, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Brake (2), Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Aagtje de WAART (60), Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Augustinus Leytens (74), Borgerhout (Antwerpen, BEL)

• 1860 » Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet († 1939)
• 1861 » Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter († 1944)
• 1861 » Georges Méliès, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1938)
• 1861 » William C. Durant, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet († 1947)
• 1862 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright († 1921)
• 1863 » Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist († 1937)
• 1864 » Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor († 1943)
• 1865 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1865 » Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer († 1957)
• 1865 » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general († 1946)

• 1830 » Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
• 1856 » Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
• 1859 » Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
• 1864 » George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
• 1869 » Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 » William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
• 1886 » Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
• 1894 » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 » Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)

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.
• May 9 » Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
• June 27 » American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.
• August 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
• October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
• 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.
• December 10 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

The temperature on December 8, 1864 was about -0.4 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.