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• Alberdina Groenewold, Weiwerd,, Groningen, Nederland († 1940)
• Andries Sneller, Nederland († 1930)
• Adrianus de Conijn, Amersfoort
• Aagje Kraakman, Limmen, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Aalbert Vlot, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland († 1940)
• Alice Somerville Marrow, Union Level, Mecklenburg County, Virginia († 1927)
• Alexander Gordon SCOTT, Milton of Cabrach, Cabrach, Banffshire, Scotland († 1927)
• Alida Johanna Koch, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1933)
• Aagje Leeuw, Vollenhove, Stad († 1942)
• Alida Francina Maria van Haasbergen, Zwolle († 1927)

• Alfred Georg von Falkenhayn (1)
• Anna Maria Verheijen (26), Baarle-Nassau
• Anna L Nieuwenhuijzen van (80), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Dorothea Seiffert (73), Kirchenbergen, South Australia
• Adelaide VOLLEBOUT (50), Vlamertinge, 8908, Flandre-Occidentale, Flandre, Belgique
• Adrianus Adrianusz ROSMOLEN (64), Piershil
• Adriaan van Hoof (48), Tilburg, Nederland
• Aleida van Binsbergen (27), Zevenaar
• Adrianus de Conijn (1)
• Anna Maria Verheijen (26), Baarle-Nassau, Nederland

• 1845 » Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist († 1888)
• 1846 » Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author († 1935)
• 1854 » Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet († 1888)
• 1860 » Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial artist († 1938)
• 1864 » Adolfo Camarillo, Mexican-American rancher and philanthropist († 1958)
• 1867 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator († 1911)
• 1875 » Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist († 1966)
• 1877 » Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1879 » Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts († 1968)
• 1880 » Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1940)

• 1806 » Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
• 1818 » Abigail Adams, American writer and second First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
• 1841 » Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)
• 1857 » Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)

• 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.
• May 3 » Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• May 18 » Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
• 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.
• December 26 » The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.
• 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 October 28, 1860 was about 16.9 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.