About the day » Saturday April 23, 1864Calender converter

• Abram Monna, De Lier († 1864)
• Aaltje Eikenaar, Zalk en Veecaten, Overijssel, Nederland († 1938)
• Aleida Olde Kalter, Losser († 1944)
• Aaldert Heinhuis, Steenwijk († 1865)
• Aaltje Riewald, Franekeradeel († 1950)
• Adriana Maria van Akeren, Poppel, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1926)
• ariaantje STEEHOUWER, brielle(ZH)
• Adriana Fijneman, Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1936)
• Adriaantje Maliepaard, oude tonge (goeree overflakkee) († 1864)
• Abram Monna, De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1864)

• Anna Maria Guffens (18), Maastricht, Lim, Nederland
• Anthonie Buijs (0), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alexander B Brown (35), Canada
• Anthonia van Rooijen (0), Werkhoven, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Bezet BESET (79), 's-Hertogenbosch, 4192, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andreas Friedrich Werner (70), Winningen, Aschersleben-Stassfurt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
• Andreas Theodorus Grandjean Perrenod Comtesse (0), Nijmegen (Gelderland, Nederland)
• Amelia Calleeuw (7), Zedelgem
• Anna Maria Van Dijk (77), Weurt (Beuningen)
• Antje Ates De Jong (61)

• 1853 » Winthrop M. Crane, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Massachusetts († 1920)
• 1856 » Granville Woods, American inventor and engineer († 1910)
• 1857 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer († 1919)
• 1858 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1860 » Justinian Oxenham, Australian public servant († 1932)
• 1861 » Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt († 1936)
• 1861 » John Peltz, American baseball player and manager († 1906)
• 1865 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general († 1943)
• 1867 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1876 » Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author († 1925)

• 1792 » Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and author (b. 1741)
• 1794 » Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French lawyer and politician (b. 1721)
• 1827 » Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general (b. 1780)
• 1839 » Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French admiral and explorer (b. 1768)
• 1850 » William Wordsworth, English poet and author (b. 1770)
• 1889 » Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (b. 1808)
• 1895 » Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)
• 1905 » Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1823)
• 1907 » Alferd Packer, American prospector (b. 1842)
• 1915 » Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887)

• 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 22 » The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
• May 15 » American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
• August 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
• September 7 » American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• September 19 » American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.
• 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.

The temperature on April 23, 1864 was about 17.4 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 35%.