About the day » Tuesday December 18, 1860Calender converter

• Adolphus Verheggen, Kruishoutem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1942)
• Aalbert Groenendijk, Pernis († 1949)
• Antonetta Maria Koppers, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• , Kortenhoef († 1934)
• ?? Spruit, Zuidland († 1860)
• Aartje Weenink, Apeldoorn († 1953)
• Aartje Beelen, Nunspeet (Ermelo) († 1889)
• Adrianus Albers, Delft († 1923)
• Antonius Josephus Portocarero, Wilmarsdonk
• Aaltien Westerbeek, Meppel,, Drenthe, Nederland († 1862)

• Adrianus Hofman (4), Vlaardingen
• Arie Oskam, Houten
• Aagje van Vliet (20), Kockengen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Sorber, Surber (68), Amsterdam
• Antje Annes Halma (9)
• Catharina Wessels (26), Gennep, NL
• Betje Isaaks (80), Leeuwarden, NL
• Anna Maria van Grinsven (63), Den Dungen, Nederland
• Adriana Venus (54), Delft
• Antonia Teunissen Vrijhof (78), Lenthe, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1847 » Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer († 1903)
• 1849 » Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author († 1931)
• 1851 » Graciano López Jaena, Filipino journalist († 1896)
• 1856 » J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1860 » Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer († 1908)
• 1861 » Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic († 1924)
• 1863 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria († 1914)
• 1867 » Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder († 1941)
• 1869 » Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator († 1965)
• 1870 » Saki, British short story writer († 1916)

• 1799 » Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and historian (b. 1725)
• 1803 » Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1744)
• 1829 » Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744)
• 1843 » Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
• 1848 » Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)

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. Antje
15. Mary
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.
• February 27 » Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
• April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
• September 7 » Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
• September 21 » Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
• October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
• December 29 » The launch of HMSWarrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.

The temperature on December 18, 1860 was about -1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.