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• Anna Docherty, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1940)
• Andreas Johannes Peeperkorn, Heemstede
• Adrianus Wulffraat, Rotterdam
• Adrianus Marinus Hoogendam, Schiedam († 1865)
• Aaltje Koomen, Spanbroek, Opmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1940)
• Angenietje Quispel, Abbenbroek († 1865)
• Anna Houwer, Steenwijk († 1951)
• Adrianus Wulffraat, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1937)
• Anna Konijnenburg, Schiedam († 1866)
• Afke de Jong, Hitzum, gemeente Franekeradeel († 1945)

• Adriana Blom (52), Eemnes, Nederland
• Anna Maria Crabbé (35), Lubbeek Vl.Brabant
• Adrianus van Moorsel (6), Boekel
• Aloisius Jacobus Josephus Maria Lombarts (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alijda Kronenburg (72), Odijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis HERMANS (53), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Adriaantje van der Haart (34), Sommelsdijk, Nederland
• Alijdis Kronenburg, Odijk
• Aloisius Jacobus Josephus Maria Lombarts (0), Loon op Zand
• anna maria katharina margaretha van MEERTEN (14), oud-beijerland

• 1842 » Arrigo Boito, Italian journalist, author, and composer († 1918)
• 1848 » Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician († 1907)
• 1852 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and playwright († 1933)
• 1868 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player († 1949)
• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)

• 1810 » Henry Cavendish, French-English physicist and chemist (b. 1731)
• 1812 » Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
• 1815 » Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)

• 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.
• April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
• April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
• May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
• June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

The temperature on February 24, 1865 was about 6.3 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.