Famous Personalities Born In 1859

Jan 05 DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) was born in the year 1859.  

Jan 06 Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order & progress) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 09 Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader was born on this day in history.  

Jan 09 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 09 On this day in history birth of frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries)  

Jan 11 [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot & Sien) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 13 On this day in history birth of karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)  

Jan 13 In the year 1859 birth of kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)  

Jan 15 In the year 1859 birth of archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)  

Jan 19 Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of Calif) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 21 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer was born in the year 1859.  

Jan 24 Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 27 Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918) was born in the year 1859.  

Jan 30 Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 01 On this day in history birth of victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)  

Feb 02 On this day in history birth of havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)  

Feb 03 On this day in history birth of hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)  

Feb 04 Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 08 On this day in history birth of john H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)  

Feb 10 Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 13 Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist was born in the year 1859.  

Feb 13 In the year 1859 birth of william Strang, Scottish painter/engraver  

Feb 14 George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 18 Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof) was born in the year 1859.  

Feb 19 In the year 1859 birth of svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)  

Mar 08 On this day in history birth of kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows)  

Mar 08 On this day in history birth of otto Taubmann, composer  

Mar 12 On this day in history birth of abraham H. Cannon, Mormon apostle (d. 1896)  

Mar 12 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer was born in the year 1859.  

Mar 13 Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 16 In the year 1859 birth of alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)  

Mar 26 On this day in history birth of adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)  

Mar 26 In the year 1859 birth of a[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)  

Mar 26 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer was born in the year 1859.  

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Jan 08 Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50 in the year 1859.  

Jan 20 B v Arnim, writer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

Jan 27 On this day in history carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74  

Jan 28 On this day in history death of frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)  

Feb 06 Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer, dies at 45 in the year 1859.  

Feb 23 Zygmunt KrasiÅ„ski, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812) died in the year 1859.  

Feb 26 On this day in history ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64  

Mar 01 In the year 1859 josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61