About the day » Friday August 5, 1864Calender converter

• Abraham E. Butler, Georgia, United States († 1875)
• Agatha Hendrika Annijas, Vlissingen
• AALTJE VOORWINDEN, HILLEGERSBERG († 1957)
• Anna Maria Catharina Spronck, Bemelen († 1930)
• Jansen, Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1864)
• Johanna Scholten, Alteveer († 1926)
• Adrianus Hameeteman, Nieuwe Tonge († 1864)
• Agatha Hendrika Annijas, Vlissingen
• Antje Bekius, Het Bildt
• Agiena Bolt, Termunterzijl († 1946)

• Anne Therese Tommeleyn (83), Ichtegem
• Augustin Conraeds (42), Leuven
• Anna Christina Willemiena Vrenegoor (76), Zwolle
• Age Jans Post (0), St. Annaparochie
• Annechien Oosting (1), Odoorn, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aart Tuijl (67), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bouwe van Wijk (0), Alphen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Maijen (12), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana IIII Boone (11), Arnemuiden, Walcheren, Zeeland, Nederland
• Emo (0), Zeist

• 1860 » Louis Wain, English artist († 1939)
• 1862 » Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities († 1890)
• 1866 » Carl Harries, German chemist and academic († 1923)
• 1866 » Harry Trott, Australian cricketer († 1917)
• 1868 » Oskar Merikanto, Finnish pianist and composer († 1924)
• 1872 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation († 1917)
• 1874 » Horace Rawlins, English golfer († 1935)
• 1874 » Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic († 1948)
• 1876 » Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and activist († 1958)
• 1877 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter († 1917)

• 1868 » Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788)
• 1877 » Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (b. 1830)
• 1880 » Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician and dermatologist (b. 1816)
• 1881 » Spotted Tail, American tribal chief (b. 1823)
• 1895 » Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1901 » Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1840)
• 1904 » George Dibbs, Australian politician, 10th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1834)
• 1911 » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1864)
• 1916 » George Butterworth, British composer, killed at the Battle of the Somme (b. 1885)
• 1921 » Dimitrios Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1844)

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 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
• May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
• June 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
• June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• July 22 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
• December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.

The temperature on August 5, 1864 was about 25.7 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%.