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• Ada Elizabeth Allison, Nassagaweya, Halton Co., Ontario Canada († 1904)
• Anna Antonia Schooneboom, Oud en Nieuw Mathenesse
• Addison Webb, Bellmont Center, Franklin, New York, United States († 1930)
• Abraham de Klerk, Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NEDERLAND († 1951)
• Adriaantje Velde van der, Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1860)
• Anna Elizabeth Magdalena Borck, Upper Moutere († 1954)
• Anna van Köppen Gravin van Hagenburg, Sankt Goarshausen, Rheinland-Palts († 1932)
• Alida Cornelia Lans, Hillegersberg, Nederland († 1922)
• Angeline Hilts, Markham, York, Ontario, Canada († 1862)
• Ann NORRIS, Camden, New South Wales, Australia († 1865)

• Anna Simmekrot Simmekrot (61), Amsterdam
• Anna Petronella Pendavingh (28), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• arie holster (44), nieuwe tonge (goeree overflakkee)
• Aaltje Stierp, Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• - Lemmens (0), Schimmert, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna de Haan (67), Amsterdam
• Antonie Janszen (2), Lochem
• Anna Maria Prins (80)
• Aaltje Stierp (41), Uitgeest
• Alexander Frans Anton Graaf van Heussenstamm-Heissenstein-Gräfenhausen (47), Wenen

• 1842 » Sidney Lanier, American composer and poet († 1881)
• 1843 » William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian businessman († 1915)
• 1857 » Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue († 1935)
• 1859 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 († 1935)
• 1862 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge († 1946)
• 1867 » Charles Henry Turner, American biologist, educator and zoologist († 1923)
• 1872 » Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, († 1946)
• 1878 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1887 » Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet († 1914)

• 1802 » Pedro Rodríguez, Spanish statesman and economist (b. 1723)
• 1813 » Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
• 1820 » Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 » George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
• 1862 » Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 » François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)

• 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 3 » The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
• 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.
• August 5 » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
• September 8 » The steamship PSLady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
• December 26 » The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.

The temperature on February 3, 1860 was about 0.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.