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• Aaltje Oedzes Venema, Tietjerksteradeel, Fr, Nederland († 1922)
• van der Tuuk, Warffum
• Barend van Rookhuijzen, Randwijk (Gelderland) († 1939)
• Amalia Hendriksdr. Voorneman, Semarang, Indonesia († 1940)
• Amalia Voorneman, Semarang († 1940)
• Baroness Anna of Herman, München, Bayern, Germany († 1957)
• Albert de Graaf, Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1936)
• Arend Klok, Smilde († 1867)
• Aaltje Venema [2], Bergum-Tietjerksteradeel († 1922)
• Aleida Nijhuis, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1944)

• Anthonie Craster (42), Zaandam
• Anna Maria Vosch (82), Herpen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoine Blaauwykel (0), Maastricht
• Berendina Otten (69), Varsseveld
• Aaron Kats (5), Zweelo (NL)
• Adolph Ernestus Thierens (59), te Vlissingen
• Anna Carolina Adriana Ubink (7), Loenen aan de Vecht,Gemeente Stichtse Vecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arent Everts van Linge (62), Veendam
• Anna Maria VANSLUYS (50), Oostende
• Adrianus van Dam (5), Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1843 » David B. Hill, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York († 1910)
• 1844 » Edward Carpenter, English anthologist and poet († 1929)
• 1857 » Sandford Schultz, English cricketer († 1937)
• 1861 » Byron G. Harlan, American singer († 1936)
• 1862 » Andrew Fisher, Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia († 1928)
• 1862 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1871 » Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France († 1950)
• 1875 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flute player and educator († 1962)
• 1876 » Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics († 1958)
• 1876 » Kim Koo, South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea († 1949)

• 1844 » Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
• 1856 » Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author and activist (b. 1778)
• 1866 » Tokugawa Iemochi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1846)
• 1877 » Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
• 1889 » Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
• 1891 » Pierre Lallement, French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
• 1892 » William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
• 1904 » Murad V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (b.1866)
• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)

• 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 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
• March 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
• March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
• April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
• April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
• December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The temperature on August 29, 1865 was about 16.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.