About the day » Friday August 4, 1865Calender converter

• Adriaan van de Ven, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1926)
• Adriana van Schetsen, Oud-Vossemeer (Tholen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1951)
• Adrianus Franciscus Leijten, Helvoirt (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1868)
• Albertus Bruins Slot, Hoogeveen {DR}, Schut († 1930)
• Aaltjen Gerrits de Vrieze, Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abraham Waterman, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1865)
• Albert Grit, Oldendiever († 1867)
• Albert Hendriks Slot, Finkum († 1939)
• Aleida Teunisje Abbink, Hummelshain († 1915)
• Bruins Slot, Het Schut Hoogeveen († 1930)

• Antonie CRUSIO (79), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• (Stillborn) VAN DER LEEST (0), Grootegast Groningen Netherlands
• Adriana Arendsdr Hoogesteger (0), Yerseke, 4401, Nederland
• Andreas Habraken, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Bax (47), Hasselt, Nederland
• Antonius Krusio (78), Bergen op Zoom
• Aldegonda Roosen (31), Lommel, Limburg, België
• Braat, Rijswijk
• Gordeau, den haag
• Aldegonde ROOSEN (31), Lommel

• 1844 » Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader († 1929)
• 1853 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter, etcher, and academic († 1902)
• 1859 » Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1952)
• 1867 » Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach († 1918)
• 1870 » Harry Lauder, Scottish actor and singer († 1950)
• 1871 » William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales († 1934)
• 1876 » Giovanni Giuriati, Italian lawyer and politician († 1970)
• 1876 » John Scaddan, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Western Australia († 1934)
• 1884 » Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic († 1949)
• 1884 » Henri Cornet, French cyclist († 1941)

• 1822 » Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet and author (b. 1801)
• 1844 » Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (b. 1773)
• 1859 » John Vianney, French priest and saint (b. 1786)
• 1873 » Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (b. 1834)
• 1875 » Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1805)
• 1886 » Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814)
• 1900 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
• 1914 » Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
• 1919 » Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)

• 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.
• 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 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
• April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
• May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
• 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.

The temperature on August 4, 1865 was about 15.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.