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• AMOS Highfield, Philadelphia, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1934)
• * Cornelia Ooms, Streefkerk († 1919)
• Achilles Leopold Vistarini, Pleasant Creek, Victoria, Australia († 1939)
• Anna Verberk, Mill en Sint Hubert
• Brouwer, Workum, Friesland, Nederland († 1860)
• Albert Prins, Rouveen († 1922)
• Aartje van Kleef, Noordeloos († 1860)
• Aartje van Putten, Hoogland († 1860)
• Agatha la Roij, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1860)
• Amanda Belle Davis, Monroe, Overton County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1950)

• Adriana van der Heijde (76), Nieuwveen
• Asa Tallcott (81), Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut
• boudewijn bakker muller (45)
• Charles Florent Joseph SURY (2), Mons, 53053, Hainaut, Belgique
• Alida (Aaltje) Bron (45), Culemborg
• Antonius Engelbertus Weerkamp (0), Enschede
• Catherine Lambert (83), Anseremme, Namur, Belgique
• Alida Veldhoven (40), Santpoort
• Adrianus Matheus Van Den Brule (0), Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, Nederland)
• Cornelis Breijer (1), Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1843 » Aaron Montgomery Ward, American businessman, founded Montgomery Ward († 1913)
• 1848 » Louisa Lawson, Australian poet and publisher († 1920)
• 1854 » Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German businessman († 1902)
• 1861 » Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, duchess of Albany († 1922)
• 1862 » Mori Ōgai, Japanese general, author, and poet († 1922)
• 1864 » Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet († 1941)
• 1864 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak priest, botanist, and painter († 1929)
• 1874 » Thomas J. Watson, American businessman († 1956)
• 1877 » André Maginot, French sergeant and politician († 1932)
• 1877 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and author († 1904)

• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)

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.
• March 5 » Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• September 8 » The steamship PSLady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
• October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
• October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• October 26 » The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
• 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 February 17, 1860 was about -1.4 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.