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• ?? Schoonakker, Terneuzen († 1865)
• Alida Johanna de Groot, Noord-Waddinxveen
• Adolphe Ghislain Carlier, Feluy
• Aartje Schep, Groot-Ammers († 1913)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Colling, Maastricht (L († 1926)
• Aafje Johanna Cornelia van der Hoek, Delft (ZH-NLD) († 1866)
• Agatha Laurina Sönnichsen, Humtrup (DK) († 1950)
• Andreas Maria Josephus Kerstens, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1925)
• Aartje Schep, Groot-Ammers († 1913)
• Adrianus van der Wel, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1931)

• Adriaan Hoogesteger (0), 's-Gravenpolder
• * Pieter (1) Baars (0), Oudenrijn, Utrecht, NL
• Adolphe HIGUEZ (0), La Bouverie,7080,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Anna Gustava Fredrika Amalia Wrede af Elimä (35), Hamina, Kymenlaakso, Finland
• Barbara De Bock (30), Vrasene
• Anne Josèphe RENSONNET (66), Herve, 4650, Liège, Belgique
• Anna Barbara Limpens (30), Berg en Terblijt, Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Nederland
• Albert Gort (0), Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands(Achterom)
• Abraham Hoopman (76), Lintelo, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Albertus de Vries (55), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1851 » Charles Barrois, French geologist and palaeontologist († 1939)
• 1854 » William Stang, German-American bishop († 1907)
• 1864 » Max Weber, German economist and sociologist († 1920)
• 1868 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter († 1932)
• 1870 » Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1941)
• 1874 » Vincent Scotto, French actor and composer († 1952)
• 1882 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)
• 1887 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager († 1978)
• 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)

• 1815 » Joseph Winston, American soldier and politician (b. 1746)
• 1825 » Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1852 » Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
• 1863 » Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782)
• 1900 » Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)
• 1910 » Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)
• 1918 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1924 » Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)

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. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• 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 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
• April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
• April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
• April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
• June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.

The temperature on April 21, 1865 was about 24.5 °C. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 26%.