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• Aaltje Israel, Vollenhove, Ambt
• Adriana Jacoba Keijzer, Leiden († 1893)
• Adriaan Daniel Gillisse, Wissenkerke, Noord-Beveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Renzenbrink, Loosdrecht († 1929)
• Albert Heyes Wubs, Nieuwe Pekela († 1924)
• Alcindor Louis Bruce, Lockport, Lafourche, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Alexander Sebastiaan Van Hardenbroek, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1865)
• Albert Heyes Wubs, Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands († 1924)
• Adrianus van der Hoef(f), Culemborg, Nederland († 1928)
• Aaltje Boonstra, Kloosterveen, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1951)

• Annetje den Ouden (57), Vierpolders
• Anna Kemp (65), Pijnacker, Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Beelke de Waal (60), Heesselt (Gelderland)
• Aaltje Pieters van der Veen (62), Leeuwarden
• Catharina Francina Geertruida Boodt (9), Soerabaja, Oost-Java, Indonesië
• Antonius Bekers (0), Princenhage
• Catherine Conway Owens (59), Courtland, Lawrence, Alabama
• Charles Joseph Foucart (68), Estinnes-au-Mont,7120,Hainaut,BE
• Aleida Spanhak (1), Zwolle
• Balthazar Vercruysse (74), Loppem West-Vlaanderen België

• 1856 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian author and poet († 1916)
• 1858 » Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher († 1932)
• 1864 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast († 1919)
• 1865 » Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1865 » James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian († 1935)
• 1868 » Hong Beom-do, Korean general and activist († 1943)
• 1870 » Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet, and diplomat († 1919)
• 1871 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist († 1945)
• 1874 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1875 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist († 1967)

• 1828 » Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, poet, and critic (b. 1815)
• 1865 » Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1796)
• 1871 » William Whiting Boardman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
• 1875 » William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (b. 1816)
• 1903 » Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)
• 1909 » Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Reşat Çiğiltepe, Turkish colonel (b. 1879)
• 1929 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892)

• 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.
• April 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
• May 7 » The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
• June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
• June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• December 10 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

The temperature on August 27, 1864 was about 17.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%.