Famous Birthdays for Year 1859

Months in Year 1859: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 126 of 126

Jan 5th - DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer)
Jan 6th - Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order & progress)
Jan 9th - Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader
Jan 9th - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters)
Jan 9th - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries)
Jan 11th - [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot & Sien)
Jan 13th - Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)
Jan 13th - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
Jan 15th - Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)
Jan 19th - Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of California)
Jan 21st - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
Jan 24th - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer
Jan 27th - Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
Jan 30th - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
Feb 1st - Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
Feb 1st - Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
Feb 2nd - Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)
Feb 3rd - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
Feb 4th - Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
Feb 8th - John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)
Feb 10th - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
Feb 13th - Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist
Feb 13th - William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
Feb 14th - George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
Feb 18th - Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof)
Feb 19th - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
Mar 8th - Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (Wind in the Willows)
Mar 8th - Otto Taubmann, composer
Mar 12th - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
Mar 12th - Abraham H. Cannon, Mormon apostle (d. 1896)
Mar 13th - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)
Mar 16th - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
Mar 26th - A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
Mar 26th - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
Mar 26th - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
Mar 27th - George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
Apr 3rd - Reginald De Koven, composer
Apr 5th - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
Apr 7th - Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
Apr 8th - Edmund Husserl, Germany, philosopher (founded Phenomenology)
Apr 11th - Basil Harwood, composer
Apr 16th - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (d. 1924)
Apr 18th - Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)
May 1st - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
May 1st - Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat
May 2nd - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
May 2nd - Jerome Klapka Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
May 3rd - Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
May 6th - Luis Maria Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
May 6th - Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice)
May 8th - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (d. 1925)
May 13th - Eugust Enna, composer
May 15th - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
May 19th - Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano (Peach Melba)
Author of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22nd) May 22nd - Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
May 26th - Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
May 30th - Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
Jun 8th - Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
Jun 10th - Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song)
Jun 21st - Henry O Tanner, artist
Jun 22nd - Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music)
Jun 23rd - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman (building of houses)
Jun 27th - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
Jul 6th - Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916)
Jul 13th - Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter
Jul 14th - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
Jul 17th - Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
Jul 28th - Balington Booth, founder (Volunteers of America)
Jul 30th - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
Aug 4th - Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
Aug 6th - J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon)
Aug 12th - Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful)
Aug 19th - Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
Aug 19th - Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer
Sep 3rd - AAJ Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves)
Sep 4th - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer
Sep 11th - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
Sep 17th - Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator
Sep 17th - Richard Henry Warren, composer
Sep 18th - John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
Sep 18th - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
Sep 20th - Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator
Sep 21st - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Ace Knave)
Sep 24th - Julius Klengel, cellist/composer
Oct 3rd - Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
Oct 4th - Henryk Pachulski, composer
Oct 9th - Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
Oct 14th - Camille Chevillard, composer
Oct 15th - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro)
Oct 17th - William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cin Reds)
Oct 18th - Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927)
Oct 20th - G B Studd, cricketer (brother of C T, 4 Tests for England)
Oct 20th - John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing)
Oct 25th - Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author (Lonely Flowers)
Oct 26th - Arthur Friedheim, composer
Oct 29th - Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
Nov 1st - Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
Nov 1st - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
Nov 4th - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
Nov 13th - Georg Knorr, German engineer (brake system trains)
Nov 15th - Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
Nov 17th - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
Nov 19th - Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid (Nov 23rd) Nov 23rd - Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, frontier outlaw, (d. 1881)
Nov 24th - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
Nov 30th - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
Dec 2nd - Georges Seurat, Paris France, post-impressionist painter (Grande Jatte), (d. 1891)
Dec 5th - John Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935)
Dec 9th - Algernon Ashton, composer
Dec 12th - Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
Dec 12th - Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
Dec 15th - Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto)
Dec 17th - Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
Dec 20th - Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher
Dec 21st - Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
Dec 22nd - Cecil [James] Sharp, London England, folk musician
Dec 24th - Roman Statkowski, composer
Dec 25th - Raoul Gunsbourg, composer
Post-Impressionist Painter Georges Seurat (Dec 2nd) Dec 26th - Johan F van Bemmelen, Dutch zoologist
Dec 26th - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (d. 1944)
Dec 27th - William Henry Hadow, composer
Dec 28th - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer
Dec 28th - John W Fortescue, military historian
Dec 29th - Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mexico (1915-20)
Dec 30th - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer
Dec 31st - Max Fiedler, composer