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• (Levenloos kind) Nieuwenhuijse, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1865)
• Ada Leona Sullivan, Lauderdale, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1937)
• Anje Schut, Wirdum, Groningen, Nederland († 1901)
• Albertus BLANKESTIJN, Amerongen (Utrecht, The Netherlands) († 1957)
• Agatha van van Duuren, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1869)
• Anna Barbera Ameling, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1942)
• Anna Pankratz Ratzlaff, Russia († 1946)
• van Gestel, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Johanna Meijer, Hof van Delft († 1948)
• Adriana van de Trooijen, Sliedrecht, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1949)

• Anne Jacobus Mathijs August Bol (27), Batavia, Java, Indonesië
• "Johanna Catharina" Anna Catharina Anna Catharina, Sint-Michielsgestel, NL
• Albert Kolk (3), Eschmarke (Lonneker)
• Anna Catharina Froesch (46), Simpelveld,, Limburg, Nederland
• Arnoldus Berndsen (35), Beek (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernhard Wichers (11), Terborg (Doetinchem)
• Anna Linde (1), Rüppershausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Archelaus Hylton (86), Burks Fork, Floyd, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Fransen van Delft (79), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Levenloos kind) Nieuwenhuijse (0), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1851 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System († 1931)
• 1866 » Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist († 1930)
• 1870 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician († 1933)
• 1870 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian († 1958)
• 1870 » Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet († 1925)
• 1878 » C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India († 1972)
• 1882 » Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1945)
• 1882 » Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1950)
• 1883 » Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic († 1973)

• 1831 » Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (b. 1770)
• 1850 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 » Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
• 1865 » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)

• 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.
• March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
• April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
• April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• 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 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

The temperature on December 10, 1865 was about 2.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.