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• Abel Lommes de Vries, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1927)
• Alice Jane Chapple, Sandy Creek,Victoria,Australia († 1938)
• Annigje Schonewille, Hollandscheveld († 1936)
• alphonse FRANÇOIS, Audregnies (Belgium) († 1940)
• Annigje Harms Schonewille, Hoogeveen († 1936)
• Alida Francina Vermeulen († 1936)
• Aaltje Tiebert, Gramsbergen († 1921)
• Alexander Darrach, Bathville Row, Bathgate, Linithgow, Scotland († 1928)
• adrianus persenaire, doorn netherland
• Alberta Bentum, Leek († 1949)

• Albertus van der ELST (82), Haarlem
• Anna Klaasd MOL (50)
• Anna Margaretha Terveer (1), Borsumerfehr
• Albertus Van der Veen (5), Winschoten
• Adrianus Droog (0), Broek, Zederik, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana De Kleijn (59), Waspik
• Adriana Wit, de (43), Fijnaart en Heijningen gem. Moerdijk Nbr. NL
• * Hendrikus (Hendrik) Pennings (45), Schijndel
• Adriana Kuistermans, Oudenbosch
• Adrianus van Kampen (49)

• 1838 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln († 1865)
• 1841 » James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster († 1918)
• 1843 » Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright († 1920)
• 1847 » Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic († 1923)
• 1855 » Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator († 1936)
• 1872 » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist († 1950)
• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)

• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)

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.
• February 27 » Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
• May 27 » Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
• June 30 » The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
• October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
• October 26 » The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
• 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 May 10, 1860 was about 13.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.