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• Anna Dames, Leeuwarden († 1946)
• Adrianus Kon, Lexmond († 1919)
• Akke Egberts Hofstra, Kollumerzwaag († 1890)
• Anna Catharina Schmitz, Onstwedde († 1946)
• Andreas Jozef Hubertus BONNEMAIJERS, Maastricht (Limburg) (NL) († 1940)
• Adriana Cornelia Konings, Roosendaal († 1922)
• Anna Johannesdatter († 1940)
• Adriaan de Laat, Kloetinge († 1919)
• Andries Kornelis van der Velde, Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1867)
• Andries Joseph Hubert Bonnemayers, Maastricht († 1940)

• Adrianus de Hoog (0), Schoonhoven, Nederland
• Arendje Aalbertse Verheij (73), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Jacobs Smedinga (69), Bedum, Nederland
• Amasa Corbin Moore Esq. (63), Champlain, Clinton, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha Johanna KOELENHOEK (54), Middelburg
• Aaltje Ottens (0), Wildervank
• Anna (Stijntje) Sterkenburg (80), Hillegersberg
• Aleida Bertha Hulsewe (58), Loodsduinen
• Alida Beertha Hulsewé (58), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendje Verheij (73), Scheveningen

• 1855 » Ernest Chausson, French composer († 1899)
• 1856 » Harriot Stanton Blatch, U.S. suffragist and organizer († 1940)
• 1865 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress († 1944)
• 1870 » Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer († 1894)
• 1873 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1874 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach († 1938)
• 1876 » Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer († 1957)
• 1878 » Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor († 1968)
• 1879 » Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator († 1968)
• 1880 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware († 1962)

• 1837 » John Soane, English architect, designed the Bank of England (b. 1753)
• 1841 » Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish explorer (b. 1780)
• 1841 » Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
• 1848 » Christian VIII, Danish king (b. 1786)
• 1850 » Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1779)
• 1852 » Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
• 1873 » Basil Moreau, French priest, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
• 1875 » Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
• 1891 » Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836)
• 1900 » John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)

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. 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 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
• March 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
• April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
• June 11 » The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
• August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
• November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

The temperature on January 20, 1865 was about 2.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.