On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

* 1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, France-Scottish actor, director, and inventor ( d. 1935 )

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1860 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American writer and public speaker ( d. 1941 )

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

* 1860 – Jules Laforgue, French poet ( d. 1887 )

* 1860 – Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer ( d. 1938 )

* 1860 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1907 )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

* 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter ( d. 1900 )

* 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

* 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and inventor ( d. 1939 )

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

* 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and composer ( d. 1936 )

In March 1860, Douglass ' youngest daughter Annie died in Rochester, New York, while he was still in England.

* November 3 – Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer ( b. 1860 )

The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley ( 1860 – 1926 ), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank Butler.

In 1860 he became editor of the secularist newspaper, the National Reformer, and in 1866 co-founded the National Secular Society, in which Annie Besant became his close associate.

He married Eleanor Kearney, the youngest daughter of William Kinchen Kearney and Benjamin Hardee James Marie Alston Kearney, in 1860 and was the father of six children: Dr. William Kearney Carr, John Buxton Carr, Mary Elizabeth Carr, Elias Carr, Eleanor Kearney Carr, and Annie Bruce Carr.

His daughter, Annie Horniman ( 1860 – 1937 ), worked in theatre, being a founder of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH ( 3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937 ) was an English theatre patron and manager.

Annie Horniman was born at Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, London, in 1860, the elder child of Frederick John Horniman and his first wife Rebekah née Elmslie.

Annie Jones ( c. 1860 – 1902 ) was an American bearded woman, born in Virginia.

* 1906 Annie Heloise Abel Henderson, ( 1860 – 1939 ) The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi River

Born Annie Ellicott Kenedy, she was the daughter of Joseph C. G. Kennedy, a politician in the Whig party, who served as director of the United States Census for 1850 and 1860.

The Forth Iron Company took over the Oakley Iron Company around 1860 then amalgamated with the Cowdenbeath Coal Company in 1872.

* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist and food manufacturer, founder of the Kellogg's Company ( d. 1951 )

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

* 1860 – Abner Powell, American baseball player ( d. 1953 )

* 1860 – Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator ( d. 1927 )

* 1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter ( b. 1860 )

* 1860 – Herman Hollerith, American statistician ( d. 1929 )

* 1778 – Rembrandt Peale, American artist ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Basil Spalding de Garmendia, American tennis player ( d. 1932 )

* 1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr., American politician ( d. 1915 )

* Dare, Philip N. American Communes to 1860: A Bibliography.

* Fogarty, Robert S. All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860 – 1914.

* 1860 – William Corless Mills, American museum curator ( d. 1928 )

* 1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson, American pioneer ( d. 1931 )

* 1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player ( b. 1860 )

* 1927 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer ( b. 1860 )

* 1860 – Robert Bacon, American politician ( d. 1919 )

* 1860 – Elias M. Ammons, American politician ( d. 1925 )

* 1860 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer ( d. 1927 )

* 1860 – Susanna M. Salter, American politician ( d. 1961 )

* 1896 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer ( b. 1860 )

* 1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player ( b. 1860 )