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• Aleida Brugman, Dieren († 1910)
• Aaltje Bleijenberg, Ermelo († 1939)
• Adam Punt, Willemstad († 1947)
• Aaltjen Paalman
• Adriana Goudsbloem, Rotterdam († 1947)
• Anna Maria Petronella Johanna Brummelen, Eck en Wiel († 1865)
• Agatha Geertruida Winkelman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnita Willemina Logtenberg, Heerde († 1940)
• Aaltje Blijenberg, Ermelo
• Anna Maria Petronella Jacoba van Brummelen, Eck en Wiel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1865)

• Aaltje Harmelink (27), Hoogeveen
• "Henri" Fedinand Ernest Joseph de Glymes de Hollebecque (75), Jodoigne, Belgique
• Aleida Albers (83), Huissen
• Bernardus van Wanrooij (23), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna van VUGHT (31), Sprang, Sprang-Capelle, 4221, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Jans Veldhuis (71), Groningen
• Alphonse Livinus Loete (0), Waarschoot, Belgium
• Apolonia van Daelen (56), Graauw en Langendam
• Antje Heines van der Vee (80), Garijp, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Westerhuis (3), Gieten, Nederland

• 1851 » William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1936)
• 1853 » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company († 1931)
• 1853 » Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English general († 1947)
• 1853 » Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager († 1937)
• 1870 » Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia († 1942)
• 1872 » Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor († 1973)
• 1874 » Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author († 1958)
• 1875 » Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician († 1949)
• 1876 » Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer († 1937)
• 1878 » Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1947)

• 1834 » Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
• 1856 » Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
• 1864 » Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)
• 1865 » Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (b. 1828)
• 1879 » Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
• 1891 » Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 » Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
• 1901 » Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)

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 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
• April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
• May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
• June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• 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.
• December 18 » US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.

The temperature on January 16, 1865 was about 2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.