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• Anna Hoffman, West Creek Township, Lake, Indiana († 1942)
• Aaltje Krooshof, Noordijk († 1861)
• Alphonse Marie Auguste Joseph Ariëns, Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands († 1928)
• Antonette Eijpelaer, Gilze en Rijen
• Antonetta EIJPELAAR, Gilze en Rijen († 1929)
• Albertje Smilde, Dijkhuizen, Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland († 1939)
• Adriaan van Lil, Oosterhout
• Nepveu, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Everts van der Broek, Haule
• Annechien Tuntelder, Wildervank († 1927)

• Adriana Jansdr de Ruijter (61), Scheveningen
• Abraham Womack, Sr. (78), St. Helena County, Louisiana, United States
• Adriana Raaymakers, Poppel, Antwerpen, België
• Anne Douwes Draayer (60), Wonseradeel
• AART HAVERKAMP (72), Appel
• Anna Margaretha Alfers (21), Fresenburg, Lathen
• Aart Hannessen Haverkamp (72), Nijkerk-Appel
• Albertien Martinus Krans (84)
• Anna 'Catharina' MAES (77), Hoboken, 2660, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Aart Hannessen Haverkamp (72), Appel gem. Nijkerk Gld

• 1834 » Charles Farrar Browne, American author († 1867)
• 1856 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1930)
• 1862 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)
• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1886 » Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist († 1913)
• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)

• 1789 » Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
• 1809 » Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)

• 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.
• April 6 » The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
• 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.
• September 7 » Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
• September 8 » The steamship PSLady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
• October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• December 26 » The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.

The temperature on April 26, 1860 was about 6.1 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.