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• Anna Maria Hubertina ENGELEN, Opgrimbie (Limburg) (B)
• Arend Wijn, Groningen († 1912)
• Antje VAN DER WAL, Ferwerd,Friesland,Nederland
• Beitske Reinders Walta, Workum († 1940)
• Vos, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1864)
• Adriana Dik, Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1948)
• Agatha Elisabeth Vink, Noordwijk († 1948)
• Apolonia Helena van der Ham, Voorburg († 1868)
• Aaltje (I) Verploegh, Woubrugge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1884)
• anna TIMMERS, hoge en lage zwaluwe († 1939)

• Agatha TURKENBURG (1), Ouder-Amstel (Noord-Holland)
• Albert Woldinga (22), Ten Boer
• Anna Zuiderduin (0), Noordwijkerhout
• Bernard Herman Diepenbroek (0), Heelweg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christina Castrijn, Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Asa Keith, (110), Whitfield, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus ONS (42), Lubbeek,Lubbeek,Vlaams-Brabant,Belgi
• Anna Maria Hubertina Simons (33), Swalmen, Nederland
• Antje Sijmensdr Blokker (72), Grootebroek, Stede Broec,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Brouwer, Hilversum

• 1852 » Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist († 1925)
• 1854 » Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba († 1921)
• 1855 » George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator († 1924)
• 1858 » Charlotte Scott, English mathematician († 1931)
• 1859 » Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist († 1947)
• 1860 » Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist († 1940)
• 1867 » Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater († 1959)
• 1868 » Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect († 1942)
• 1872 » Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator († 1949)
• 1875 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author († 1934)

• 1831 » Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (b. 1755)
• 1835 » Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
• 1845 » Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1846 » Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (b. 1799)
• 1857 » Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
• 1874 » Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
• 1876 » George Sand, French author and playwright (b. 1804)
• 1885 » Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
• 1889 » Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1899 » Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (b. 1863)

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 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
• May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
• May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
• July 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
• September 1 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• September 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.

The temperature on June 8, 1864 was about 20.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.