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• Aaltje (Alice) Franken, Hulshorst (Ermelo) († 1901)
• Aaltje Jansen, Oosterbeek (Renkum), Nederland († 1888)
• Adriana Wilhelmina RAAIJMAKERS, Wouw,Noord-Brabant,NEDERLAND († 1939)
• Tollenaar, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Franken, Hulshorst († 1901)
• * Geertje Kortenhoeven, Lexmond († 1911)
• Alida Rosina Maria Willeman, Schiedam
• Alice NOGGLE, Grant, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan de Vos, Borssele ('s-Gravenpolder) (Zeeland) († 1865)
• Adrianus de Haan, Ede (NL) († 1918)

• Abraham Sluijter (2), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Schollen, Tielt-bij-Aarschot, Brabant, Belgie
• Anna Maria MEULEMEESTERS (64), Uden, 4288, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna van Rooyen, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Steijlen (2), Tilburg
• Gerben Wiebes Hazenberg (55), Harkema-Opeinde (Achtkarspelen) Friesland
• Adriana Kleijsen (76), Goirle, Gemeente Goirle
• Anna Catharina Van den Bergh (29), Retie, België
• Absalom Maxwell (63), Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonie Pleijter (7), Nieuwendam

• 1838 » Léon Gambetta, French lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of France († 1882)
• 1840 » Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist († 1902)
• 1841 » Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III († 1926)
• 1842 » Dominic Savio, Italian Catholic saint, adolescent student of Saint John Bosco († 1857)
• 1861 » Iván Persa, Slovenian priest and author († 1935)
• 1862 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1869 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager († 1928)
• 1875 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler († 1940)
• 1875 » William Donne, English cricketer and captain († 1942)
• 1884 » J. C. Squire, English poet, author, and historian († 1958)

• 1817 » Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (b. 1740)
• 1827 » Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and educator (b. 1776)
• 1845 » Philip Charles Durham, Scottish admiral and politician (b. 1763)
• 1865 » A. P. Hill, American general (b. 1825)
• 1872 » Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (b. 1791)
• 1891 » Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek playwright and politician, 249th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1823)
• 1891 » Albert Pike, American lawyer and general (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)

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 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
• March 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
• April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
• 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.
• December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
• December 16 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.

The temperature on April 2, 1864 was about 7.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.