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• Alice May Limouzin († 1941)
• Andries Noback, Blokzijl († 1944)
• Albertus van Zeist, Rheden
• Andries Noback, Blokzijl, Overijssel, Nederland († 1944)
• Adrianus Johannes Vrijenhoek († 1887)
• Aagje Brandse, Oudshoorn
• Anna Spiegelaar, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1954)
• Adriaan van 't Hof, Dinteloord en Princeland (Steenbergen), Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Beauchez, Katwijk, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Vrijenhoek, Krimpen aan den IJssel

• Antonetta Jacoba Sakko (87), Tholen
• Berend Hendriksz Esmeijer (81), Ede, Ede, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Arendina Schiphorst (0), Oudleusen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Berend Groot Bramel (2), Veldwijk (Vorden)
• Arie DAM, van (58), Stolwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Verzijl (2), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aris van dam (58), Stolwijk
• Anna Christina Palte (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Janssen (68), Veenendaal
• Albertus Janssen (68), Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1844 » Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman († 1924)
• 1848 » Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor († 1905)
• 1850 » Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer († 1896)
• 1852 » J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic († 1919)
• 1852 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1911)
• 1856 » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist († 1927)
• 1860 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator († 1900)
• 1870 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia († 1891)
• 1871 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)
• 1883 » Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist († 1931)

• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)

• 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.
• March 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
• April 17 » American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
• 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 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
• October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.

The temperature on August 30, 1864 was about 23.9 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%.