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• Annie Louisa Knight, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands († 1947)
• Aleida Helena Smits, Bemmel, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1940)
• Alida Elisabeth Maria Catharina Tomeij, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Oosterwijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1932)
• Anna Maria van Van Seeters, Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Van Seeters, Raamsdonk
• Anna Haasters, Rotterdam
• Anna Carolina Osterloh, Lingen, Hannover (D)
• Albert Eduard Haantjes, Rotterdam († 1902)
• Arie Vogelaar, Stein († 1926)

• Aleida Poor (61), s-Heerenberg (Montferland)
• Christina Bareman (48), Terneuzen
• Catharina Adriana de Bont (36), Utrecht
• Ann ALLEN (HADLEY) (73), Cornbow, Worcestershire
• Anthonie van der Sluis (2), Ommerschans
• Anna Maria BRAUNS (31), Hasselt,Provincie Limburg,Flanders,Belgi
• Catharina Egbers (65)
• Antje Jans Walstra (39)
• Catharina Adriana de Bont (36), Utrecht
• Aaltje KASTEEL (52), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1856 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1930)
• 1862 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)
• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1886 » Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist († 1913)
• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)
• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)

• 1809 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

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.
• March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
• 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 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
• May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
• 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 26, 1865 was about 15.8 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%.