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• Achille SCHERPEREEL, Herseaux († 1919)
• Gatze roedema, Longerhouw († 1950)
• Anna Elisabeth Hubertina Korsten, Herten
• Adriana van den Baar, Aalst
• (Stillborn) van de Griend (van der Griend), Zuid-Beijerland, Nederland
• Aartje Kelderman, Bennekom,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1930)
• Adriana Lekkerkerker, Benschop, Nederland († 1865)
• Alphonsius Cornelis Waterschoot, Grembergen (België)
• Allen Shoemaker (Nice) Nyce
• Anna Maria Kuijken, Haarlem,Noord-Holland,Nederland († 1866)

• Antje Jacobs Hut, Noordbroek (NL)
• Adelaïde Johanna Clotterbooke Patijn van Kloetinge (0), Utrecht
• Aleida Lenferink (62), Tubbergen
• (Anne Baptiste) Marthe MOULARDOT (75), Gray-la-Ville, 70280, Haute Saône, Franche-Comté, France
• Adriana Berkhout (0), spijkenisse
• Antje Jakobs Hut (75), Noordbroek
• ANNA BERKEL (80), MAASSLUIS
• Antonius Casper Smeehuijzen (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Berkel (81), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabetha Huens (71), Korbeek Lo, 3360, België

• 1859 » Jerome K. Jerome, English author and playwright († 1927)
• 1860 » John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, physician, and academic († 1936)
• 1860 » Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian Zionist philosopher, journalist and author († 1904)
• 1865 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright († 1909)
• 1867 » Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster († 1930)
• 1873 » Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator († 1944)
• 1879 » James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and politician, 49th United States Secretary of State († 1972)
• 1880 » Bill Horr, American football player, discus thrower, and coach († 1955)
• 1882 » Isabel González, Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship († 1971)
• 1885 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist († 1966)

• 1810 » Henry Jerome de Salis, English priest (b. 1740)
• 1819 » Mary Moser, English painter and academic (b. 1744)
• 1857 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (b. 1810)
• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)

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. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Petronella
16. Elizabeth

• 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 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
• April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
• April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
• May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
• July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
• November 26 » Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.

The temperature on May 2, 1865 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.