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• Aafje Boeder, Andijk († 1906)
• Albert Hendrikse, Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1935)
• Vegers, Zevenbergen († 1873)
• Aaltjen ter Schegget, Zutphen
• Alexandrina Rodrigues, Tatuí, São Paulo, Brasil
• Alice Mary Head († 1959)
• Alberta Johanna Giesberts (Gijsber(s)), Huissen
• Aldert Riddersma, Aalzum († 1951)
• Albertus Lockhorn, Veendam († 1933)
• "Hubert" Marie Chrétien de Belloy de Saint-Liénard, Saint-Senier-sous-Avranches, Manche, France († 1929)

• Aafke Lykeles Zittema (56), Hallum
• Adriaantje Pols (0), Zuidland
• De Jong (0), Oostdongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltje SCHUILING (90), Zuidlaerderveen (Zuidlaren), Drenthe, Nederland
• Hubertus Wilhelmus Zijlmans (7), 's-Grevelduin Capelle
• Ana Teixeira (15), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anatolie-Nathalie Adeline MOUCHOT (28), Château-Salins (57), France
• Anna Catharina Fooij (0), Maastricht
• Anna Christina Schenk (41), Zaandam
• Sybrand Blauw (44), Dokkum

• 1856 » Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist († 1917)
• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)
• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)
• 1871 » Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia († 1939)
• 1876 » Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author and playwright († 1958)

• 1829 » Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (b. 1760)
• 1848 » George Stephenson, English engineer and academic (b. 1781)
• 1849 » Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
• 1861 » Eliphalet Remington, American inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms (b. 1793)
• 1864 » Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1811)
• 1865 » William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and academic (b. 1785)
• 1891 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1819)
• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)

• 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.
• January 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
• 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.
• May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
• June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.

The temperature on August 12, 1865 was about 21.2 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%.