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• Adrianus Johannes van Gool, Tilburg
• Andrieske Andriesz Bekema, Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Nederland
• Adelaïde Johanna Clotterbooke Patijn van Kloetinge, Utrecht († 1865)
• Abraham Haars, Yzendijke († 1905)
• Adelaide Johanna Clotterbooke Patijn, Utrecht († 1865)
• Alle Barkmeyer, Friesch Stroobos, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1870)
• Albert Andrieszn Borgman, Nieuwe Pekela, Pekela, Groningen, Nederland († 1911)
• Alida Koster, Haarlem († 1918)
• Andrieske Bekema, Workum, Nederland († 1956)
• Adrianus Meijers, Breukelen-St. Pieters, Nederland († 1921)

• Adriana Roijackers (68), Luiksgestel
• Anna Elisabeth Ramaekers (58), Rijkhoven
• Christina Sophia Johanna Klepper (0), Delft
• Ann Jane SHARLAND (61), Launceston, Tasmania
• Cornelia Krab (8), Egmond aan Zee
• Constantia Cornelia Heirwegh (77), Hamme (O.-Vl.),, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Cornelia Tromp (23), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Vandeweijer (14), Vliermaal, België
• Catharina Maria POOT (51), Dordrecht
• Adriana Johanna van LEEUWEN (0), Charlois

• 1850 » Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue († 1931)
• 1851 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist († 1918)
• 1851 » Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company († 1923)
• 1860 » Justinien de Clary, French target shooter († 1933)
• 1871 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant († 1951)
• 1873 » James Harcourt, English character actor († 1951)
• 1875 » Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet and lawyer († 1909)
• 1879 » Paul Poiret, French fashion designer († 1944)
• 1882 » Holland Smith, American general († 1967)
• 1884 » Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1966)

• 1831 » John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
• 1873 » William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
• 1874 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
• 1881 » William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
• 1886 » Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
• 1887 » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
• 1899 » Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)
• 1912 » Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
• 1918 » Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)

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.
• 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.
• March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
• 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.
• April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
• June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
• December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

The temperature on April 20, 1865 was about 16.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%.