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• Aloysius Vanderbeke, Ingelmunster
• Adriana Borsboom, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adrianus Marinus Heijndijk, Oostvoorne († 1872)
• Aafke Claassen Ockenga, fortasse, Mohrhausen, Ostfriesland, Hannover († 1885)
• Anna Maria Everdina Beekhuijzen, Arnhem
• Anna Cornelia Josepha van der Loo, Tilburg (N.Br.) († 1865)
• Alberdina Lunshof, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1939)
• Abele Westra, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Agatha Cornelia Majoor, Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Andries Dirks Kijlstra, Kooten († 1930)

• * Wilhelmina (1) Baars (4), Maurik, Gem. Buren, Gelderland, NL
• Adriana Straatman (37), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Scheerhoorn (40), Gees (Oosterhesselen)
• Anna Maria Diepenbrock (71), Albersloh,Dld
• Adriaan Breure (0), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana de Leest (0), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria (Stephan Beunker) Diepenbrock (71), Albersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Dolkens (0), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Broekhoven (2), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Visscher (71), Wilsum {OV}

• 1855 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor († 1920)
• 1857 » William V. Ranous, American actor and director († 1915)
• 1858 » Adolph Ochs, American publisher († 1935)
• 1859 » Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician († 1906)
• 1860 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author († 1895)
• 1863 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright († 1938)
• 1863 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist († 1945)
• 1864 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist († 1922)
• 1869 » George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1947)
• 1874 » Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer († 1949)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

• 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.
• April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
• April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
• May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

The temperature on March 12, 1865 was about 1.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.