When campaigning for presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike (Mar 6), the First Taranaki War begins in Waitara as the Maori refuse to sell land to British settlers in New Zealand (Mar 17), Garibaldi’s forces take Palermo, the capital of Sicily (May 27), Vladivostok is founded in Russia (Jul 2), the First International Chemistry Congress is held in Karlsruhe, Baden (Sep 3), Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round (Dec 1) - and all these fine people were born:

1860-xxxx Benjamin Thomas* founder of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company - Chattanooga, TN (1914) 1860-0104 Victor Westerholm* landscape painter - Turku, GD of Finland (1919/59) 1860-0117 Douglas Hyde* scholar/statesman/1st President of Ireland - Castlerea, Roscommon, Ireland (1949/89) 1860-0129 Anton Chekhov* physician/author - Taganrog, Russian Empire (1904/44) 1860-0201 1860-0210 1860-0218 Anders Zorn* painter - Mora, Sweden-Norway (1920/60) 1860-0220 1860-0221 Goscombe John* sculptor - Cardiff, Wales (1952/92) 1860-0223 Alfons Siber* painter/restorer - Schwaz, Austrian Empire (1919/58) 1860-0225 1860-0229 Herman Hollerith* inventor of the electromechanical punched card tabulator - Buffalo, NY USA (1929/69) 1860-0302 Susanna M. Salter* politician/activist/mayor - Lamira, OH USA (1961/101) 1860-0312 Eric Stenbock* Baltic-Swedish writer/poet/the count of Bogesund - Cheltenham, England (1895/35) 1860-0319 Hugo Sandelin* priest/ school teacher - Lohtaja, GD of Finland (1933/73) 1860-0325 Mikko Hakoniemi** brother of Mikko H. - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1860/0) 1860-0326 André Prévost* tennis player/OB - Rheims, France (1919/58) 1860-0406 Gavriil Baranovsky* Russian civil engineer/architect/art historian - Odessa, Ukraine (1920/60) 1860-0407 Will Keith Kellogg* industrialist/founder of the Kellogg Company - Battle Creek, MI USA (1951/91) 1860-0413 James Ensor* painter/printmaker - Ostend, Belgium (1949/89) 1860-0421 Sven Scholander* musician/ composer/sculptor - Stockholm, Sweden (1936/76) 1860-0429 Kaarlo Frisk* actor/ journalist - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1921/61) 1860-0502 Theodor Herzl* Austro-Hungarian Jewish lawyer/political activist/the father of modern political Zionism - Pest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (1904/44) 1860-0509 J. M. Barrie* novelist/playwright - Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland (1937/77) 1860-0517 Schuyler Wheeler* electrical engineer/inventor of the electric fan & the electric elevator - New York, NY USA (1923/62) 1860-0518 Eero Erkko* publisher/ politician/grandfather of Aatos Erkko - Orimattila, GD of Finland (1927/67) 1860-0519 Vittorio Emanuele Orlando* statesman/PM - Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1952/92) 1860-0520 Eduard Buchner* chemist/zymologist/N - Munich, German Confederation (1917/57) 1860-0521 Willem Einthoven* physiologist/inventor of the first practical ECG/N - Semarang, Dutch East Indies (1927/67) 1860-0529 Isaac Albéniz* virtuoso pianist/composer/conductor - Campdoron, Catalonia, Spanish Empire (1909/48) 1860-0603 Hugo E. Saurén* architect - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1927/67) 1860-0613 Hj. Nortamo* physician/ dialect writer - Rauma, GD of Finland (1931/71) 1860-0613 Lancelot Speed* illustrator of books/silent film director - England (1931/71) 1860-0620 Jack Worrall* rugby player/test cricketer - Maryborough, VIC Australia (1937/76) 1860-0625 Gustave Charpentier* composer - Dieuse, Second French Empire (1956/95) 1860-0707 Gustav Mahler* composer/conductor - Kalischt, Austrian Empire (1911/50) 1860-0714 Owen Wister* writer (The Virginian)/historian - Philadelphia, PA USA (1938/78) 1860-0719 Lizzie Borden* acquitted murder suspect - Fall River, MA USA (1927/66) 1860-0801 1860-0805 Louis Wain* painter (anthropomorphised cats and kittens) - Clerkenwell, London, England (1939/78) 1860-0807 Alan Leo* astrologer - Westminster, London, England (1917/57) 1860-0812 Klara Hitler* (b Pölzl) mother of Adolf Hitler/married her first cousin once removed - Spital, Austrian Empire (1907/47) 1860-0813 Annie Oakley* West show performer - Willowdell, OH USA (1926/66) 1860-0913 John J. Pershing* U.S. army general - Laclede, MO USA (1948/87) 1860-0915 M. Visvesvaraya* civil engineer/statesman - Muddenahalli, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (1962/101) 1860-0925 Archibald J. McLean* cattleman/ politician/one of the Big Four who helped found the Calgary Stampede - Aldborough, ON Canada (1933/73) 1860-1010 Joan Maragall* Catalan poet/journalist/translator - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spanish Empire (1911/51) 1860-1021 Juliette Gordon Low* founder of Girl Scouts USA - Savannah, GA USA (1927/66) 1860-1116 John Henry Kirby* businessman/lumber manufacturer - Tyler County, TX USA (1940/79) 1860-1123 Hjalmar Branting* politician - Stockholm, Sweden (1925/64) 1860-1220 Dan Leno* music hall comedian/actor - St Pacras, London, England (1904/43) 1860-1231 Joseph S. Cullinan* oil industrialist/ founder of Texaco - Pulaski Township, PA USA (1937/76) 1860-1231 John T. Thompson* army officer/inventor of the Thompson submachine gun - Newport, KY USA (1940/79) 1860-0 1860-0 1860-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki Search for another year here