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• Aaltje van der Vegt, Giethmen († 1925)
• Anna Catharina Vounckx, AARSCHOT († 1944)
• * Levenloos kind Bor, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL († 1860)
• Akke Jans Kuipers, Akkerwoude († 1923)
• Anastasia Lebedewna von Lebedeff
• "Karl" Fritz Otto von Below († 1940)
• Adriana Willems Neeleman, Vlaardingen († 1910)
• Anna Angela Hilling, Niederlangen, Lathen († 1901)
• Adriana van den Heuvel, Stolwijk († 1861)
• Anna Angela Hilling, Niederlangen

• Angeline Swinnen (50), Geel, België
• Adolf Tielenius Kruythoff (74), Terheijden,Gemeente Made en Drimmelen,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Adolph Tielenius Kruijthoff (74), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonie van Ooijen (33), Oud-Beijerland
• Anna Weijers (53), Piershil
• Anna Gertrudis (Geertrui) Geutjens (75), Heeze
• Aaltje Jans Mulder (38), Avereest
• Aaldrikdina SIEBERING (1), Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland
• Aleijdis Sloot (62), Zelhem, The Netherlands
• Anthonie Van Ooijen (34), Oud-Beijerland

• 1840 » August Bebel, German theorist and politician († 1913)
• 1849 » Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician and academic († 1915)
• 1857 » Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, philosopher, and academic († 1894)
• 1857 » Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general, co-founded The Scout Association († 1941)
• 1860 » Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary († 1939)
• 1863 » Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic († 1943)
• 1864 » Jules Renard, French author and playwright († 1910)
• 1874 » Bill Klem, American baseball player and umpire († 1951)
• 1876 » Zitkala-Sa, American author and activist († 1938)
• 1879 » Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist and academic († 1947)

• 1816 » Adam Ferguson, Scottish historian and philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1875 » Charles Lyell, Scottish-English geologist and lawyer (b. 1797)
• 1875 » Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1796)
• 1888 » Anna Kingsford, English physician and activist (b. 1846)
• 1890 » Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (b. 1834)
• 1890 » John Jacob Astor III, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
• 1897 » Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
• 1898 » Heungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b. 1820)
• 1903 » Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1904 » Leslie Stephen, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1832)

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 17 » The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars.
• April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
• 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 18 » Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
• September 8 » The steamship PSLady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
• December 20 » South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.

The temperature on February 22, 1860 was about -1.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.