About the day » Sunday December 16, 1860Calender converter

• Albert Mulder, Appelscha Ooststellingwerf Fryslân Nederland
• Aart Lourens Veenendaal, Herveld(GE) († 1932)
• Adriana Cornelia Van Der VEN, Barendrecht († 1882)
• Antje Van Den Berg, Egmond Binnen († 1948)
• Aart Lourens Veenendaal, Herveld († 1932)
• Anna van Moerkerk, Gendt zie Gelderland-(Overbetuwe) Lingewaard-Gendt († 1941)
• Agnes Steenvoorden, Lisse, ZH, Nederland († 1945)
• Antje van den Berg, Egmond Binnen, prov. Noord Holland († 1935)
• Antoinetta Magdalena van der Sande, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1951)
• Annigje Hoving, Emmen

• *Ludovicus Theodorus Meijs (80), Den Haag, Z.H
• Allegonda Berrens (35), Vlijmen
• Adriana Carolina EHRENERON (54), .........
• Anna Lamberta Manders (29), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Arie de Vos (34), Lopik, Netherlands
• Adriana Carolina Ehrencron (51), Batavia
• Antje Johannes de Vries (1), Haulerwijk, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Arie de Vos (34), Lopik, Utrecht, NL
• Aagje van Eijk (4), Stolwijk
• Antje Dekker (60), Spanbroek

• 1861 » Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1863 » George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet († 1952)
• 1865 » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet († 1918)
• 1866 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist († 1944)
• 1867 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian († 1951)
• 1869 » Bertha Lamme Feicht, American electrical engineer († 1943)
• 1869 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization († 1952)
• 1872 » Anton Denikin, Russian general († 1947)
• 1882 » Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist († 1963)
• 1882 » Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist († 1967)

• 1805 » Saverio Cassar, Gozitan priest and rebel leader (b. 1746)
• 1809 » Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755)
• 1859 » Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786)
• 1892 » Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (b. 1810)
• 1897 » Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1898 » Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
• 1908 » American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)
• 1917 » Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1921 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
• 1922 » Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Klaas
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Mary
15. Antje
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
• May 5 » Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
• May 27 » Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
• June 23 » The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
• August 5 » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
• September 20 » The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
• October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).

The temperature on December 16, 1860 was about 1.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.