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• Adriaan Brands, Steenbergen, N-Br, NL
• Alice Amelia Harrison, Iowa City, Wright, Iowa († 1942)
• Adriana Teunisdr. Dorst, Strijen († 1935)
• Adolphe Amand Lagast, Bouverievest D16 nr89, Brugge
• van Boxtel, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van der Zaken, Besooijen bij Waalwijk, Nederland
• Albert van Keulen, Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van der Zaken, Besoijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1937)
• Adriana Dorst, Strijen, ZH, Nederland († 1935)
• van Loenen, Groningen

• (3) de Beer, Roosendaal en Nispen
• Antje Rinzes de Vries (78), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• James (0)
• Alle Welling (0), Opeinde
• Adriana Jans' Roose (71), Oostkapelle
• Antje de Geus (76), Warmenhuizen
• (2) de Beer, Roosendaal en Nispen
• Andrew W. Ray (35), Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Flipse (50), Vrouwenpolder
• Antje Bommel (2), Den Helder

• 1850 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist († 1914)
• 1851 » Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate († 1925)
• 1853 » Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician († 1905)
• 1856 » José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan journalist and politician, President of Uruguay († 1929)
• 1860 » Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1927)
• 1861 » Abel Ayerza, Argentinian physician and academic († 1918)
• 1863 » Archduke Eugen of Austria († 1954)
• 1864 » Princess Stéphanie of Belgium († 1945)
• 1873 » Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic († 1941)
• 1878 » Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer († 1930)

• 1844 » Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
• 1858 » José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)
• 1862 » John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 » Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 » Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 » August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
• 1895 » Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 » Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 » Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1915 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)

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 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
• 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 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
• July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
• July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
• December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The temperature on May 21, 1865 was about 22.8 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%.