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• Adriana Freijee, Nieuwveen († 1937)
• Amzi Waddell Hooker, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi († 1934)
• Anna Christina BRUIJNEN, Neer
• Adriaan Gijsbertsz Puijk, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Alexander Gerard Hubert Hillen, Venlo
• Anna Cato HAENEN, Maastricht († 1935)
• VAN DE LAVOIR († 1865)
• Adriana Cornelia Pruijssers, Vrijhoeve-Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriaan Nicolaas van Hassel, Schiebroek († 1942)
• Aalbertus Middelhoven, Ede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1930)

• August Ferdinand Arie Mattern (36), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Van den Bergh (63), Herentals, België
• Albertus Glaser (24), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alexandre Dalsème (81), 9ème, Paris, Paris, IDF, France
• Alberta Hellings (70), Utrecht
• Bartje van Buren (41), Schagen
• VAN DE LAVOIR (0)
• Antonius Witsiers (44), Aarle-Rixtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Ouwendijk (0), Overschie
• Anna Gena Eeltjes (81), Amsterdam

• 1856 » Pud Galvin, American baseball player and manager († 1902)
• 1861 » Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress († 1946)
• 1865 » Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army († 1950)
• 1869 » Charles Finger, English-American journalist and author († 1941)
• 1870 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1965)
• 1873 » Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator († 1959)
• 1874 » Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress († 1944)
• 1875 » Francis Aveling, Canadian psychologist and priest († 1941)
• 1875 » Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal († 1955)
• 1876 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan († 1948)

• 1824 » Barbara von Krüdener, German mystic and author (b. 1764)
• 1824 » William Lawless, Irish revolutionary, later French Army general (b. 1772)
• 1868 » Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and businessman (b. 1821)
• 1875 » Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
• 1880 » Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1828)
• 1916 » Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b. 1845)
• 1921 » Vladimir Korolenko, Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853)
• 1925 » Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1877)
• 1926 » Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
• 1928 » Miles Burke, American boxer (b. 1885)

• 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.
• April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
• May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
• 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 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
• November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

The temperature on December 25, 1865 was about -2.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.