Famous Personalities Born In 1859

Jan 05 DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 06 Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order & progress) was born in the year 1859.  

Jan 09 In the year 1859 birth of carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader  

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

Jan 09 Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 11 In the year 1859 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 In the year 1859 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 In the year 1859 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 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 On this day in history 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 Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 03 In the year 1859 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 John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 10 On this day in history birth of alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)  

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

Feb 13 William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver was born in the year 1859.  

Feb 14 On this day in history birth of george Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)  

Feb 18 On this day in history birth of sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof)  

Feb 19 Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903) was born on this day in history.  

Mar 08 Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows) was born in the year 1859.  

Mar 08 Otto Taubmann, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 In the year 1859 birth of ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)  

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

Mar 26 In the year 1859 birth of nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer  

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Jan 08 On this day in history antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50  

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 In the year 1859 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 on this day in history.  

Feb 23 In the year 1859 death of zygmunt KrasiÅ„ski, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)  

Feb 26 Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64 in the year 1859.  

Mar 01 Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.