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• Aaltje Berendsdr Eikelboom (Eckelboom,Eijkelboom), Heerde, Nederland († 1893)
• Adriana Louwerse, Vrouwenpolder († 1869)
• Anna Elisabeth Moret, 's Gravendeel († 1888)
• Anna Vlaar, Zwaag, Hoog en Laag Zwaagdijk, nummer 131a
• Albertje Saat Noordijk, Vollenhove, Stad († 1865)
• Aaltje Wilhelmina van de Velde, Krabbedijke († 1864)
• Amédé Louis baron Mulert, Leeuwarden,Gemeente Leeuwarden,Friesland,Netherlands († 1864)
• Antoinette Phillippine Maria (Annette) Schellart, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1904)
• Antje Missel, Stellendam († 1937)
• Adriaan Herold Balder, Hoorn († 1868)

• Beukje Posthuma (30), Andijk, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pas, Van De (64), Horst
• Alewijn Storm (40), Rotterdam,op Een Schip
• cornelia leenderts klootwijk (73), charlois
• Barbara Schilfgaarde van (50), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Frederik Couwenberg (0), Soerabaja (N.I.)
• Adriana Johanna Notenboom (32), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Wolters, Rotterdam, Nederland
• Cornelia KLOOTWIJK (72), Charlois, Rotterdam, 6240, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berbera van Schilfgaarde (50), Dinteloord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1845 » Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist († 1909)
• 1849 » William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland († 1919)
• 1863 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer († 1924)
• 1865 » Julia Marlowe, English-American actress († 1950)
• 1866 » Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad († 1911)
• 1873 » John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic († 1946)
• 1877 » Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player († 1923)
• 1878 » Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer († 1911)
• 1880 » Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer and tennis player († 1948)
• 1887 » Charles I of Austria († 1922)

• 1834 » Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802)
• 1838 » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749)
• 1850 » José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
• 1861 » Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (b. 1806)
• 1870 » Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818)
• 1875 » Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (b. 1827)
• 1897 » William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821)
• 1901 » Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842)
• 1903 » Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825)
• 1908 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)

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 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
• March 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
• May 9 » Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
• 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.
• October 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
• November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

The temperature on August 17, 1864 was about 12.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%.