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• Adriana Johanna Tettero, Schipluiden († 1874)
• Adriana Catharina Maria Kuijpers, Delft († 1953)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Tobben, Neer († 1939)
• Antonie Kroes, Noord-Waddinxveen († 1896)
• Anna Maria Rijgersberg, Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Adriana Catharina Maria Kuipers, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Adriaan Sterken, Boxtel
• Anna Cornelia Riool, Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1928)
• Abram Emens, Rotterdam
• Anne Sybes HOUTEN, van, Garijp, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1936)

• Annigje Smit (0), Dedemsvaart
• Allen Hill Goodwin (67)
• Cornelia Johanna Lammers (0), Woerden
• Anna Gertrudis Linssen (24), Maasbracht
• Catharina Verhoeven (48), Alkmaar, North Holland, Netherlands
• Augustine BREART, Ollignies, 55030, Hainaut, Belgique
• Aldert Vogel (37), Ulrum (Houwerzijl)
• * Hendrika Edel (1), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Agatha Rijser (36)
• Aike Aikes Maarsingh (43), Ter Maars

• 1844 » Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1930)
• 1852 » Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1907)
• 1852 » Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist († 1945)
• 1856 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator († 1923)
• 1860 » Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist († 1934)
• 1861 » Amélie of Orléans, queen consort of Portugal († 1951)
• 1867 » Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan († 1952)
• 1867 » James Edwin Campbell, American poet, editor, short story writer and educator († 1896)
• 1868 » Evelyn Beatrice Hall, English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire, and wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre († 1956)
• 1870 » Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic († 1958)

• 1829 » Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
• 1844 » Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
• 1859 » Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779)
• 1873 » Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 » Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)

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.
• January 1 » The first Polish stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.
• April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
• September 20 » The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
• 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 September 28, 1860 was about 11.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.