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• Albertje Huiting, Onstwedde (gem. Stadskanaal) († 1935)
• Alfred (Twin) SHARMAN, Shotteswell, Oxfordshire. Banbury († 1954)
• Abraham de Vlieger, Middelburg, Walcheren, Zeeland, NL
• Grietje van den Donker, Rotterdam († 1923)
• Adriana Christina van der Wagt, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1871)
• Andries van Tessel, Utrecht, Nederland († 1935)
• Leentje Bos, Veendam († 1941)
• Alexander van Vriesland, Kloosterburen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1946)
• Alfred Paul Ferdinand SEVRIN, Velaines, 57083, Hainaut, Belgique
• Aart van Weverwijk, Everdingen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1956)

• Anna Gerritsen (76), Terneuzen
• Aart van den Brink (23), Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Berends SCHUILING (62), Tynaarlo (Vries), Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltjen Hendriksen Bouwers (82), Apeldoorn
• Adriana van de VEN (38), Dordrecht
• Aan Gerrits Hoekstra (37), Ferwerd
• Aart van den Brink (23), Amerongen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Meijs (1), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aemilia Henrietta Morjé (52), Dordrecht,Gemeente Dordrecht,South Holland,Netherlands
• Aan Gerrits Hoekstra (37), Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1854 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager († 1933)
• 1859 » August Herrmann, American executive in Major League Baseball (d.1931)
• 1860 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist († 1940)
• 1867 » Andy Bowen, American boxer († 1894)
• 1867 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1870 » Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein († 1948)
• 1871 » Emmett Dalton, American criminal († 1937)
• 1873 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine († 1945)
• 1874 » François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty, Inc. († 1934)
• 1874 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic († 1954)

• 1839 » Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
• 1856 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
• 1856 » Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
• 1910 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 1916 » Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
• 1916 » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
• 1916 » Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)

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 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
• March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
• December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.

The temperature on May 3, 1865 was about 23.6 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 31%.