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• Adriana van Vuuren, Molenaarsgraaf († 1932)
• Anna Peeters, Nijmegen
• Albertje Kloppenburg, Odoorn († 1925)
• Aarnoud Cevaal, Ritthem († 1866)
• Anje Smit, Spijk, Gemeente Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands († 1871)
• Aaldert Oetsen, Havelte, Dr, The Netherlands († 1943)
• "Johanna" Margreta Burgmans, Udenhout († 1937)
• Adrianus Laurentius Kouwenbergh, Gilze en Rijen († 1938)
• Anna Maria Wolters, Hüntel, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Ana Garcia de Carvalho, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, São Paulo, Brasil († 1938)

• Adrianus REURS (0), Monnickendam, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• alexander HARTIGH (58), dubbeldam
• Adriaan van der STELT (0), Dussen, Nederland
• Antje Zijlstra (0), Haskerland (Friesland)
• Adriaan Hendrik van der Weel (49), Zoutelande
• Agnes Keiren (63), Helden,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Hendriks Jonker (76), Andijk, Nederland
• Adriaan Hendrik van der Weel (49), Zoutelande, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Agatha de Rijk (39), Breukelen-Nijenrode
• Alexander Simonsz DEN HARTIGH (58), Dubbeldam

• 1842 » John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)
• 1848 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Swiss Confederation († 1919)
• 1850 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician († 1908)
• 1866 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China († 1925)
• 1872 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer († 1947)
• 1881 » Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1881 » Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect († 1948)
• 1886 » Ben Travers, English author and playwright († 1980)
• 1886 » Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer († 1975)
• 1889 » DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest († 1981)

• 1793 » Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1793 » Lord George Gordon, English politician (b. 1751)
• 1836 » Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1773)
• 1847 » William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
• 1865 » Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (b. 1810)
• 1896 » Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843)
• 1902 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
• 1916 » Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
• 1933 » F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
• 1933 » John Cady, American golfer (b. 1866)

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.
• February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
• March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
• April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
• April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
• 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.
• July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

The temperature on November 12, 1865 was about 9.1 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.