Events from the year 1860 in the United States.
Incumbents
State governments
Demographics
Events
JanuaryâÂÂMarch
AprilâÂÂJune
JulyâÂÂSeptember
OctoberâÂÂDecember
Undated
Ongoing
Births
- January 1 – Dan Katchongva, tribal leader and activist (died 1972)
- January 17 – Charles K. French, actor, film director, and screenwriter (died 1952)
- January 25 – Charles Curtis, 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933; U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1915 to 1929 (died 1936)
- February 28 – Carl Georg Barth, mathematician and mechanical engineer (died 1939)
- February 29 – Herman Hollerith, pioneer of automated data processing (died 1929)
- March 2 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the U.S. (died 1961)
- March 5 – Sam Thompson, baseball player (died 1922)
- March 8 – James A. Hemenway, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1905 to 1909 (died 1923)
- March 11 – Thomas Hastings, architect (died 1929)
- March 19 – William Jennings Bryan, politician (died 1925)
- March 27 – Frank Frost Abbott, classical scholar (died 1924)
- April 7 – Will Keith Kellogg, industrialist, founder of the Kellogg Company (died 1951)
- May 15 – Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914 as wife of Woodrow Wilson (died 1914)
- May 16 – Herman Webster Mudgett, serial killer (d. 1896)
- June 22 – Tom O'Brien, baseball player (died 1921)
- July 3 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist novelist (died 1935)
- July 4 – Idah McGlone Gibson, journalist (died 1933)
- July 14 – Owen Wister, Western fiction writer and historian (died 1938)
- July 19 – Lizzie Borden, murder suspect (died 1927)
- August 8 – Eliza Putnam Heaton, journalist and editor (died 1919)
- August 9 – Maude Gillette Phillips, author and educator (d. unknown)
- August 13 – Annie Oakley, West show performer (died 1926)
- August 15
- Henrietta Vinton Davis, elocutionist, dramatist and impersonator (died 1941)
- Florence Harding, née Kling, First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as wife of Warren G. Harding (died 1924)
- September 5 – Andrew Volstead, politician (died 1947)
- September 6 – Jane Addams, social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 (died 1935)
- September 7 – "Grandma Moses", born Anna Mary Robertson, folk painter (died 1961)
- September 13 – John J. Pershing, general (died 1948)
- October – William Edward White, African American baseball player (died 1937)
- October 12 – Chester I. Long, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1903 to 1909 (died 1934)
- October 23 – Molly Elliot Seawell, historian (died 1916)
- October 31 – Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts (died 1927)
- November 2 – Soapy Smith, con artist and gangster (shot 1898)
- December 4 – Lillian Russell, singer and actress (died 1922)
- December 15 – Abner Powell, Major league baseball player (died 1953)
- December 18 – Edward MacDowell, pianist and composer (died 1908)
- December 28 – Harry B. Smith, songwriter (died 1936)
- December 31
- Joseph S. Cullinan, industrialist, founder of Texaco (died 1937)
- John T. Thompson, U.S. Army officer, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun (died 1940)
Deaths
- January 5 – John Neumann, first United States bishop to be canonized (born 1811)
- January 13 – William Mason, politician (born 1786)
- January 18 – John Nelson, lawyer (born 1791)
- February 25 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, lexicographer (born 1790)
- April 6 – James Kirke Paulding, writer and United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1778)
- May 9 – Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley), children's author (born 1793)
- May 10 – Theodore Parker, preacher, Transcendentalist and abolitionist (born 1810)
- May 21 – Phineas Gage, improbable head injury survivor (born 1823)
- May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784)
- June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815)
- July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800)
- September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)
- September 19 – Thomas D. Rice, actor and dancer (born 1808)
- September 29 – Chapin A. Harris, physician and dentist (born 1806)
- October 3 – Rembrandt Peale, portrait painter and museum keeper (born 1778)
- October 25 – James "Grizzly" Adams, mountain man and bear trainer (born 1812)
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