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• Anna Petronella de Looijer, Megen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1914)
• Alfred Edouard Lecoq, Orival, Frankrijk
• Aafke Dijkstra, Bergum
• Anthonie de Bree, Soest, Utr, NL († 1919)
• Anna Maria CRAFT, Maastricht (NL/LI) († 1936)
• Anna Cornelia Kuiper, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1934)
• Adriana De Groot, Steenbergen († 1885)
• Anna Maria Craft, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1936)
• Ann Ida Thielen, ...Rheinland
• Ada Alzina Carver, Lemon Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania († 1959)

• Agien Zaagman (2), Garsthuizen, Stedum, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus van Liempt (5), Vught
• Adriana Theodora Maria Bettonvil, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Anthonia Verkuijl (82), Oud-Vossemeer
• Arie Gernler (0), Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL
• Catharina Rosa CASTELEIN (55), Moorslede
• Antonius van Swanenburgh (11), Nijmegen
• Arie Gernler (0), Koudekerke, ZL.NL
• Arie van Dam (31), Ameide
• Catherine Fredericks (70), Bald Eagle, Clinton, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1842 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia († 1849)
• 1844 » Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman († 1924)
• 1848 » Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor († 1905)
• 1850 » Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer († 1896)
• 1852 » J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic († 1919)
• 1852 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1911)
• 1856 » Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist († 1927)
• 1860 » Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator († 1900)
• 1870 » Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia († 1891)
• 1871 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1937)

• 1856 » Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 » John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 » Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 » Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 » Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 » Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 27 » Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
• August 5 » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
• October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.

The temperature on August 30, 1860 was about 14.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.