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• Andrew Kelly, Liberty, Union, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1953)
• Anna Johan van der Meersch, Breda
• Ale Klazes Ekema, Holwerd, Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1917)
• Aantje Kuil, Arkel
• Aaltje Hendriks BARELTS, Stadskanaal, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Berends Weidema, Jubbega-Schurega († 1943)
• (w) Amos, Fischelbach, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Alida Margaretha Bergenaar, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Alof Beumkes, Hall (Brummen)
• Albertus Goddijn, Leiden († 1864)

• Adriana Proos (4), Goes, Nederland
• Sytsema (0), Sneek
• Catharina Susanna de Bock (53), Steenwijk
• Bernardus Paridon (51), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Brondsema (Bronsma) (2), Den Helder
• Adriaantje Gosses de Boer (30), Ferwerderadeel
• Anna Helena Mäsker (0), Dankern, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Ellermann (0), Lindloh, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Bernardus Perridon (51), Reeuwijk
• Anne Marie Emilie Helene Heymann (69), Krautergersheim, 67880, Frankrijk

• 1859 » Edmund Husserl, German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher († 1938)
• 1864 » Carlos Deltour, French rower and rugby player († 1920)
• 1867 » Allen Butler Talcott, American painter and educator († 1908)
• 1869 » Harvey Cushing, American surgeon and academic († 1939)
• 1871 » Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator († 1925)
• 1874 » Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer († 1929)
• 1874 » Stanisław Taczak, Polish general († 1960)
• 1875 » Albert I of Belgium († 1934)
• 1882 » (O.S. 27 March) - Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine († 1951)
• 1883 » R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic († 1972)

• 1848 » Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1860 » István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791)
• 1861 » Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 » Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1894 » Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)
• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

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.
• 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.
• April 18 » Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
• May 9 » Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
• June 29 » At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 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.
• December 15 » American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat unit.

The temperature on April 8, 1864 was about 1.4 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%.