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• Alida Themme-Luder, Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1892)
• Aaltje van de Nautena, Nijkerk
• Anna van Maldegem, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1871)
• Archibald de la Montanya, San Francisco, California († 1910)
• Aaltje Hogewind *, Steenwijk († 1953)
• Antonia Wilhemina Remmerde († 1921)
• Adriana van der Linden, Dordrecht († 1931)
• Aaltje Schimmel, Amersfoort, Nederland († 1903)
• Alida Edina Meulenkamp, Groningen († 1933)
• Anna Eugenie De La Croix, Djocdjacarta, Java, Ned. Indie

• Adriana Wisse (62), Goes (Goes) (Zeeland)
• Arnoldus Norbertus van Dal (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Carolina Wouters (41), Antwerpen
• Anna Maria Verburg (67), Haarlem
• Celia DE BOEF (0), Brakel
• Antoni Machiel Omlo (32), Groningen
• Christina Nijs (43), Vlaardingen
• Bernardus Blom (62), WAARDENBURG (West-Betuwe), GD, NL
• Christina Nijs (43), Vlaardingen
• Anna Catharina Lenssen (44), Maasbree

• 1844 » Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and was the first president of Indian National Congress. († 1906)
• 1855 » August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet († 1927)
• 1856 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic († 1894)
• 1859 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico († 1920)
• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)
• 1879 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot († 1936)
• 1881 » Jess Willard, American boxer († 1968)
• 1885 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general († 1921)

• 1807 » Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo, Portuguese diplomat and scientist (b. 1750)
• 1815 » Sarah Baartman, Khoikhoi woman (b. 1789)
• 1825 » Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (b. 1748)
• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)

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.
• March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
• 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.
• May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
• December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks

The temperature on December 29, 1865 was about 6.8 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%.