{--page_num--}Famous Personalities Born In 1859

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of deWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer)  

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 in the year 1859.  

Jan 09 On this day in history birth of carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters)  

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

Jan 11 On this day in history birth of [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot & Sien)  

Jan 13 Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature) was born in the year 1859.  

Jan 13 On this day in history birth of kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)  

Jan 15 Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920) was born in the year 1859.  

Jan 19 On this day in history birth of alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of Calif)  

Jan 21 In the year 1859 birth of antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer  

Jan 24 On this day in history birth of alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer  

Jan 27 In the year 1859 birth of wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)  

Jan 30 In the year 1859 birth of tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)  

Feb 01 Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland) was born in the year 1859.  

Feb 02 In the year 1859 birth of havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)  

Feb 03 Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935) was born on this day in history.  

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

Feb 08 In the year 1859 birth of john H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)  

Feb 10 Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943) was born in the year 1859.  

Feb 13 On this day in history birth of frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist  

Feb 13 On this day in history birth of william Strang, Scottish painter/engraver  

Feb 14 George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel) was born in the year 1859.  

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

Feb 19 Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903) was born in the year 1859.  

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

Mar 08 Otto Taubmann, composer was born in the year 1859.  

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

Mar 12 On this day in history birth of josef Cyril Sychra, composer  

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

Mar 16 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of a[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)  

Mar 26 On this day in history birth of nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer  

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Jan 08 Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50 on this day in history.  

Jan 20 B v Arnim, writer, dies at 73 in the year 1859.  

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 On this day in history death of zygmunt KrasiÅ„ski, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)  

Feb 26 In the year 1859 ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64  

Mar 01 On this day in history josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61