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• Aafke van der Bij, Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1930)
• Annoh Elizabeth Hay, Miami County, Ohio († 1942)
• Aafje Breed, Barsingerhorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1899)
• Anna van Merrienboer, Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1943)
• Andreas Hendrikus Bemelmans, Berg en Terblijt, Nederland († 1860)
• Adriana Cornelia Slegtenhorst, Schiedam, ZH, Nederland
• Aletta Jacoba Dina Oomen, Rotterdam († 1919)
• Adriaantje Dikstra, Zwijndrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Aize Ebeles van der Veen, Opeinde, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1948)
• Adrianus de Bie, Tiel († 1932)

• Andreas van Goethem (60), De Klinge
• Arnoldus van Velthoven (81), Heeze
• Anna Jans Germanus (2), Achterom (Hoogeveen)
• Auke Liekeles Tuinstra (58), Oudwoude
• Adriana den Hoed (20), Ridderkerk
• Annigje Hartog (43), Leiden
• Anje Hindriks Bruils (75), Uithuizermeeden
• anna maria hillebrand (0), dordrecht
• Anje Hendriks Bruils (75), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnoldus van Velthove (81), Moergestel

• 1840 » John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician († 1929)
• 1850 » Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic († 1926)
• 1856 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia († 1919)
• 1860 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer († 1935)
• 1863 » Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist († 1922)
• 1867 » Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1947)
• 1871 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar († 1929)
• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)
• 1886 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright († 1964)
• 1887 » Rupert Brooke, English poet († 1915)

• 1805 » Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (b. 1724)
• 1835 » Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1767)
• 1839 » Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (b. 1763)
• 1857 » Eugène Sue, French author and politician (b. 1804)
• 1866 » Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)

• 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.
• August 5 » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
• 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.
• December 20 » South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.

The temperature on August 3, 1860 was about 13.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.