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• Adriana Huijser Huyser, Zeeland, Ottawa, Michigan, United States († 1947)
• Annigje Schonewille, Hollandscheveld, Drenthe, Nederland († 1936)
• Amos Rudolph Schafer, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States († 1950)
• Annigje SCHONNEWILLE, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1936)
• Adrianus Josephis van Roessel, Tilburg († 1930)
• Annigje Schonewille, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, The Netherlands († 1936)
• Aart WESDIJK, Den Bommel
• Alice Jane Chapple, Sandy Creek,Victoria,Australia († 1938)
• Albert Tiel
• Abel Lommes de VRIES, Langezwaag (Friesland, The Netherlands)

• Anna Maria Wilhelmina van der Ende (0), Schiedam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Hendrik" Hendrikus Hendrikus (45), Schijndel, NL
• Adriana de Wit (43), Fijnaart en Heijningen, North-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Wit, de (43), Fijnaart en Heijningen gem. Moerdijk Nbr. NL
• Agnes Elisabeth KUHNKE (0), Berlin, Brandenberg, Germany
• Anna Margaretha Terveer (1), Borsumerfehr
• Adriaan Konstand Dalebout (0), Burgh, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje Wigtenbroek (77), Workum
• Abraham Goetland (45), Aardenburg
• Aagje Piebes de Jong (68), Hollum (gem. Ameland)

• 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)

• 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 5 » Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• March 28 » First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
• May 3 » Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 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.

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%.