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• Anna Catharina Bloemen, Luijksgestel, NL
• Alberdina Johanna de Vroom, Harderwijk († 1930)
• Adriaan Noordijk, Sint-Annaland, Nederland († 1945)
• Alfons Cyrille Van Neste, Beselare West-Vlaanderen († 1953)
• Alida Wilhelmina Elisabeth Harloff, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Anna Willemina Kemmink, Arnhem († 1948)
• Age Herres Dijkstra, Harich, Gaasterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Pluim, Steenwijk
• Annetje Visser, Monnickendam(NH) († 1868)
• Ada Longford Steele, Sugarloaf, Carlton, Tasmania, Australia († 1950)

• Adrianus Nicolaas Conijn (Konijn) (66), Alkmaar
• ten Caat (0), Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alberta Johanna Wulffelee (33), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Conijn (66), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Petrus Gerardus de Wit (0), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, NL
• Adrianus van Iersel (1), Tilburg
• Aarjen Stadig (78), Den Oever
• Adrianus Aarts (64), Etten-Leur, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Boonekamp (30), Veur
• Adrianus van Iersel (1), Tilburg

• 1848 » Louisa Lawson, Australian poet and publisher († 1920)
• 1854 » Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German businessman († 1902)
• 1861 » Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, duchess of Albany († 1922)
• 1862 » Mori Ōgai, Japanese general, author, and poet († 1922)
• 1864 » Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet († 1941)
• 1864 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak priest, botanist, and painter († 1929)
• 1874 » Thomas J. Watson, American businessman († 1956)
• 1877 » André Maginot, French sergeant and politician († 1932)
• 1877 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and author († 1904)
• 1881 » Mary Carson Breckinridge, American nurse midwife, founded Frontier Nursing Service († 1965)

• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Gerardus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• 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.
• April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
• April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
• April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
• May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
• May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
• June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.

The temperature on February 17, 1865 was about 1.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.