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 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 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 – 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 )

* James Kirke Paulding ( 1779 – 1860 ), U. S. Secretary of the Navy under Martin Van Buren ; thought to be " author " of " Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers ".

* Martin Archer Shee, The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee, Volume 1, Volume 2 ( London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 ).

In North America some of the first migrants which could be considered kinsmen of the sept Moriarty of that same family were Daniel, Ellen, Eugene, Margaret, Michael, Thomas Moriarty all settled in Boston in 1849 ; James, John, Martin, Maurice, and Michael Moriarty all arrived in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1860.

* Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke ( 1860 – 1938 )

* 1859 – 1860: Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel

On September it was announced that British car manufacturer Aston Martin is new main-sponsor of " 1860 ".

William Martin Leake, FRS ( 14 January 1777 – 6 January 1860 ), was a British antiquarian and topographer.

Similarly, in 1860, former Democratic President Martin Van Buren ended up supporting Abraham Lincoln due to Van Buren's disagreements with Democratic policies on secession.

Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton ( 16 August 1860 – 10 October 1938 ), generally known as Lord Hawke, was an English amateur cricketer who played major roles in the sport's administration.

Martin Bladen Hawke was born on 16 August 1860 at Willingham Rectory, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

* Martin Max ( 1860 Munich )

Other writers include: Maurus Carnot ( 1846 – 1935 ), Giachen Michel Hay ( 1860 – 1920 ), Gian Fontana ( 1897 – 1935 ), Leza Uffer ( 1912 – 1982 ), Armon Planta ( 1917 – 1986 ), Gion Luregn Derungs, Gion Deplazes ( born 1918 ), Cla Biert ( 1920 – 1981 ), Andri Peer ( 1921 – 1985 ), Martin Suter, Tim Krohn.

Martin Heinrich Rathke ( August 25, 1793 – September 3, 1860 ) was a German embryologist and anatomist.

* Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet ( 1778 – 1860 ), a British soldier and historian

* John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun ( 1860 – 1908 ) ( created Marquess of Linlithgow in 1902 )

* David Leslie-Melville, 8th Earl of Leven, 7th Earl of Melville ( 1785 – 1860 )

* Hubert George Charles Mostyn, 7th Baron Vaux of Harrowden ( 1860 – 1935 ) ( abeyant 1935 )

* Sidney Carr Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire ( 1860 – 1930 )

* Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet ( 1860 – 1917 )

Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet ( 4 March 1778 – 13 April 1860 ) was a British soldier and historian.

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox KG, GCVO ( 27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928 ), styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March between 1860 and 1903, was a British politician and peer.

After his first wife's death in September 1860, he married as his second wife Harriett Graham, daughter of Sir Bellingham Reginald Graham, 7th Baronet, and widow of Sir Frederick Ashworth, in 1862.

General José Santos Guardiola Bustillo ( 1 November 1816 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras – 11 January 1862 in Comayagua, Honduras ) was a two term President of Honduras from February 17th 1856 to February 7th 1860 and from February 7th 1860 to his death on January 11th 1862, when he became the only President of Honduras to be assassinated while in office in a crime committed by his personal guard.

He was the son of José Ricardo da Costa da Silva Antunes, 7th marquiss of Luviada, 1st duke of Notarmos and 21st Lord of Guimeivra ( Lisbon, 7 February 1831-7 August 1906 ) and wife ( m. 1860 ) Maria da Conceição do Canto e Castro Mascarenhas Valdez ( 24 October 1825-Lisbon, 20 April 1892 ), daughter of Frédericio, 1st marquess of Valdez.

Dom António José de Sousa Manuel e Meneses Severim de Noronha ( March 18, 1792, Lisbon-April 26, 1860 ), 7th Count of Vila Flor, 1st Marquis of Vila Flor and 1st Duke of Terceira, was a Portuguese military officer, statesman and a leader of the Constitutionalist side in the Liberal Wars, as well as a Prime Minister of Portugal.