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• Adrianus Rijnders, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Tjeerds Jongsma, Suameer, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Elisabeth van Hinsberg, Grevenbicht, Provincie Limburg, Nederland († 1866)
• Adrianus Franciscus VAN DEN KIEBOOM, Sint-Job-in-'t-Goor, Brecht, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1911)
• Aaltje SWAAN, Bergen
• Aaltje ten Broek, Apeldoorn († 1866)
• * Poulus Wielaard, Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1864)
• Aalbert Berkhof, Maarn († 1865)
• Aaltje de Vries, Schoonoord, Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1923)
• Anna Catharina Rongen, Pannesheide, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland

• Aagje Verwaal (79), Stolwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Maaren (68), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aalbertus Gelderman (32), Harderwijk
• Aagje Verwaal (79), Stolwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aalbartus Gerhardus Gelderman (32), Harderwijk
• Adolph Sartorius (44), Barmen,,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany
• Adriaan van de Meulendijk (68), Rijssen
• Adrianus Aartsz Maaskant (37), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
• Adriana van den Bosch (90), Nieuwkuijk
• Adriana van Liempd (44), Schijndel

• 1842 » Sidney Lanier, American composer and poet († 1881)
• 1843 » William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian businessman († 1915)
• 1857 » Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue († 1935)
• 1859 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 († 1935)
• 1862 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge († 1946)
• 1867 » Charles Henry Turner, American biologist, educator and zoologist († 1923)
• 1872 » Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, († 1946)
• 1878 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)

• 1802 » Pedro Rodríguez, Spanish statesman and economist (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
• 1820 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 » George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (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. Leendert
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
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 1 » Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
• May 7 » American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
• May 21 » Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
• May 26 » Montana is organized as a United States territory.
• October 2 » American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
• October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.

The temperature on February 3, 1864 was about 3.9 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.