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• Aaltje Witten, Avereest († 1866)
• Adrianus Bartelen, Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL († 1866)
• Adriana Andriesse Daane, Westkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland
• Otte Folkertsma, Wonseradeel († 1925)
• Adriana van Loon, Terheijden
• Abraham Toet, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Adriana van Loon, Terheijden († 1941)
• Adriana Daane, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL († 1932)
• Hermanus Theodorus Helsloot, Amsterdam
• Aaltje Goris, Houwerzijl, Groningen, Nederland († 1914)

• Anna Pavlowna ,Groot-Hertogin van Rusland (70), 's-Gravenhage
• Andries Wolter d' Aulnis de Bourouill (21), Arnhem, Nederland
• Albertus Adrianus de Haas (70), Ochten
• Andries Wolter baron d’Aulnis de Bourouill (21), Arnhem,Gemeente Arnhem,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Ana Luisa de Sanches Brandão (74), Campanha, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Aleida Hulshof (32), Lichtenvoorde
• Anna Pavlovna (70), The Hague
• ambroisine PATURIAUX (40), Wasmuël (Belgium) Hainaut
• Adriana Dirve (74), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Adrianus de Haas (70), Ochten, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1842 » Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic († 1901)
• 1848 » Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic († 1907)
• 1852 » Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1923)
• 1863 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer († 1930)
• 1870 » E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic († 1944)
• 1876 » Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman († 1942)
• 1880 » Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic († 1932)
• 1886 » Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright († 1980)
• 1888 » Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player († 1948)
• 1888 » Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer, outside right († 1949)

• 1841 » Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1764)
• 1862 » Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1875 » Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
• 1882 » Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
• 1884 » Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
• 1906 » José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
• 1911 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 » John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)

• 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 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
• June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

The temperature on March 1, 1865 was about 3.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.