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• Albert Edward Leicester Fitzhardinge KINGSCOTE, London England U.K
• Anna Alida Holierhoek, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Koorman, Slagharen († 1949)
• Adriaan Mathijssen, Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1941)
• Aartje Van Den Broek, Stoutenburg, Utrecht, Nederland († 1923)
• Agatha Veugelaars, Horn, Lim, Nederland
• Adrianus MANSVELD, Zeelst,,Netherlands
• Aartje Van Mourik, Deil († 1865)
• "Maria Johanna" Johanna Johanna, Leiden, NL († 1945)
• Alida Verburgt, Andelst († 1941)

• de Leeuw (0), Kattendijke
• Constantinus Pieters (28), Hontenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aagje Woutersdr de Vries (2), Urk, Nederland
• Christoffel Broens (67)
• Adriana van Os (31), Leerdam
• Carl Mathias Blumenkamp (51), Duisburg, Mündelheim, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Aagje de Vries (2), Urk
• Berend Arends Naberman (40), Genemuiden
• Alberta Maria Hendrika ROZENDAL (0), Hasselt
• Adrianus van Os (31), Leerdam

• 1853 » Vaiben Louis Solomon, Australian politician, 21st Premier of South Australia († 1908)
• 1856 » Tom O'Rourke, American boxer and manager († 1938)
• 1857 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)
• 1868 » Sumner Paine, American target shooter († 1904)
• 1869 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer († 1944)
• 1877 » Robert Hamilton, Scottish international footballer († 1948)
• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)

• 1809 » Beilby Porteus, English bishop (b. 1731)
• 1832 » Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (b. 1769)
• 1835 » John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
• 1866 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
• 1878 » Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (b. 1797)
• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)

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 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
• March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
• 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 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
• April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
• June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

The temperature on May 13, 1865 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%.