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• Anna Catharina Brouns, Eisden (B) († 1865)
• Antonia Renard, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1905)
• Amanda Leatherman LANDIS († 1929)
• Anna Aleida SIEBUM, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1894)
• Aaltje Bakker, De Cocksdorp (Texel, NH)
• Anna Catharina Crooymans, Beek en Donk († 1959)
• Aaltien Lensing, Anloo († 1865)
• Allardus Pantjes, Doezum,, Groningen, Nederland († 1952)
• Abraham Romkes Tolstra, Raard († 1917)
• Anna Catharina Crooijmans, Beek en Donk, Nbr.NL († 1959)

• Anne Boomsma (43), Aalsum
• Albert Richts Mulder (80), Sappemeer, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antje Franses Fransjes (68), Joure, Nederland
• Aaltje Egberts van Tongeren (76), Veessen, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Pieters Boomsma (43), Dokkum
• Anne Pieter BOOMSMA (43), Aalsum, Friesland, Nederland
• "Constant" Ghislain de Kerchove de Denterghem (74), Gand, Belgique
• Adriaantje Hermansd Van BREE (75), Strijen
• Aaltjen Egberts van Tongeren (76), Veessen (Heerde)
• Antonia Josina de Geus (0), Zuilichem

• 1854 » George Eastman, American businessman, founded Eastman Kodak († 1933)
• 1855 » Ned Hanlan, Canadian rower, academic, and businessman († 1908)
• 1857 » George E. Ohr, American potter († 1918)
• 1861 » Anton Arensky, Russian pianist, composer, and educator († 1906)
• 1863 » Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist († 1933)
• 1863 » Paul Drude, German physicist and academic († 1906)
• 1868 » Stefan George, German poet and translator († 1933)
• 1870 » Louis II, Prince of Monaco († 1949)
• 1872 » Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia († 1945)
• 1876 » Max Jacob, French poet, painter, and critic († 1944)

• 1804 » Alexander Hamilton, American general, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
• 1845 » Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian linguist, poet, and playwright (b. 1808)
• 1850 » Robert Stevenson, Scottish engineer (b. 1772)
• 1855 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
• 1870 » John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (b. 1809)
• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)

• 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 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
• April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
• April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
• July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
• December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks

The temperature on July 12, 1865 was about 15.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.