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• Adriana Heijth, Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Aaltje Wisse, Middelburg († 1865)
• Agatha Boomhouwer, Hilversum († 1945)
• Adrianus den Breejen, Hoogezand (Groningen)
• Allegonda VAN HOORN († 1943)
• Abraham van der WERF, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Gijsbertus Heesbeen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1941)
• , Bleiswijk († 1865)
• Anna Catharina Burgdorffer, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1946)
• * Aaltje Verkerk, Oudenrijn, Utrecht, NL († 1866)

• Adriaan (Janse) Klinke (77), Serooskerke (W)
• Anna Catharina Arts (41), Meerlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendriksz BAKKER (66), Zwartewaal
• Anna Maria Hemmen (16), Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Alouisius Cornelius Reijers, Beek (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Spanhaak (65)
• Aartje Geertruij Geesdorp (38), Utrecht
• Arnolda Peters (75), Vessem
• Apolonia Maria Van Der Kaaij (22), Leiden
• Alouisius Cornelius Reijers (0), Beek, Limburg, Nederland

• 1853 » Winthrop M. Crane, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Massachusetts († 1920)
• 1856 » Granville Woods, American inventor and engineer († 1910)
• 1857 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer († 1919)
• 1858 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1860 » Justinian Oxenham, Australian public servant († 1932)
• 1861 » Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt († 1936)
• 1861 » John Peltz, American baseball player and manager († 1906)
• 1865 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general († 1943)
• 1867 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1876 » Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author († 1925)

• 1794 » Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French lawyer and politician (b. 1721)
• 1827 » Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general (b. 1780)
• 1839 » Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French admiral and explorer (b. 1768)
• 1850 » William Wordsworth, English poet and author (b. 1770)
• 1889 » Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (b. 1808)
• 1895 » Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)
• 1905 » Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1823)
• 1907 » Alferd Packer, American prospector (b. 1842)
• 1915 » Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887)
• 1936 » Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author (b. 1889)

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.
• 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 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
• May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
• November 26 » Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
• December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

The temperature on April 23, 1865 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%.