About the day » Saturday April 15, 1865Calender converter

• Adam M Turner, Ohio, United States († 1950)
• Aleida Wessels, Lonneker, Overijssel, Nederland († 1931)
• Adrianus van Hulten, Oudenbosch
• Alcebiades Cezar Plaisant, Paranaguá, Paraná, Brasil
• Tienem, Blitar, Oost-Java, Indonesië († 1919)
• Abraham Pieter Bal, Middelburg († 1909)
• Alexander Reinhold Carl Lionel von Timroth, Riga, Livonia (Latvia) († 1944)
• Adrianus Beekmans, Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleijda Maria ter Huirene, Groenlo († 1947)
• Adrianus Beekmans, Vught

• Adrianus Patijn (20), Terneuzen
• Adriana Cornelia Nicolaasd Kors (0), Haarlem
• Aartje Frederiksen (71), Putten
• Adriana Cornelia KORS (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the USA (56), Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Lincoln President (56), Washington City, District of Columbia, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus van den Bos (0), 's-Gravenzande
• Adriana van den Braak (62), st Michielsgestel, NL
• Aalt Aartsen Harselaar (65)
• Afina Holtkamp (3), Windeweer, Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland

• 1856 » Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic († 1910)
• 1858 » Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher († 1917)
• 1861 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-British poet and playwright († 1929)
• 1863 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator († 1914)
• 1874 » George Harrison Shull, American botanist and geneticist († 1954)
• 1874 » Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1875 » James J. Jeffries, American boxer and promoter († 1953)
• 1877 » Georg Kolbe, German sculptor († 1947)
• 1878 » Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright († 1956)
• 1879 » Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet († 1980)

• 1793 » Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718)
• 1854 » Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)
• 1861 » Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
• 1865 » Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1888 » Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 » Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
• 1912 » Victims of the Titanic disaster:
• 1917 » János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)

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.
• February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
• 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 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
• April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
• April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
• July 27 » Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

The temperature on April 15, 1865 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.