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• Aaltjen Koning, Steenwijkerwold († 1899)
• Agnes Huijs, Maasbree
• Agatha Catharina van Konijnenburg, Noordwijk († 1888)
• Antje Jans Bakker, Stiens († 1930)
• Amanda Adaline Lee, East St. Louis, St Clair, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1930)
• Anna Scholl († 1947)
• Albert Post, Genemuiden († 1861)
• Antje de Boer, Wymbritseradeel († 1943)
• Hamers, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Jeanne GOURMELON, Brest, 29019, Finistère, Bretagne, France († 1904)

• Aafke Kornelis Havinga (40), Ulrum
• Adriana VAN DEN BRAND, Alphen en Riel, North-Brabant, Netherlands
• Aaltje Johanna Grotenhuis (70), Wijhe
• Adriana Brand, van den (78), Alphen en Riel, Nederland
• Anna Mechelina (Mechtildis) Vriens (65), Asten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Broek (0), Bokhoven
• Aaltje de Rover (69), Schelluinen
• Aafke Kornelis Havinga (40), Ulrum
• Albert Jans Lingbeek (53), Westerlee, Scheemda, Groningen, Netherlands
• Albert Cornelisen Apeldoorn (2), Vollenhove

• 1830 » João de Deus, Portuguese poet and educator († 1896)
• 1839 » Josephine Cochrane, American inventor († 1913)
• 1841 » Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist († 1935)
• 1848 » LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster († 1917)
• 1856 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army († 1929)
• 1856 » Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic († 1937)
• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)

• 1819 » Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1739)
• 1844 » Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1869 » Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803)
• 1872 » Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 » Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 » Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
• 1887 » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
• 1889 » John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)

• 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 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 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• October 26 » The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.

The temperature on March 8, 1860 was about 0.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.