Famous Personalities Born In 1859

Jan 05 Dewitt b brace: Inventor (spectrophotometer)  

Jan 06 Samuel alexander: English philosopher (moral order & progress)  

Jan 09 Frederik pijper: Dutch vicar/church historian (the monasteries)  

Jan 09 Carrie lane chapman catt: Founder (league of women voters)  

Jan 09 Carrie chapman catt: Women's rights leader  

Jan 11 [gerard] jan ligthart: Dutch educator (nog bij mother, ot & sien)  

Jan 13 Karl bleibtreu: German author (revolution of literature)  

Jan 13 Kostis palamas: Greek poet  

Jan 15 Archibald peake: Premier of south australia  

Jan 19 Alice eastwood: Toronto, botanist (handbook of trees of calif)  

Jan 21 Antoni wincenty rutkowski: Composer  

Jan 24 Alexander alexandrovich il'yinsky: Composer  

Jan 27 Wilhelm ii: Potsdam, german emperor (1888-1918)  

Jan 30 Tony mullane: Irish-born american baseball player  

Feb 01 Victor august herbert: Dublin ireland, composer (babes in toyland)  

Feb 02 Havelock ellis: Us physician/sexologist (psychology of sex)  

Feb 03 Hugo junkers: German aircraft designer  

Feb 04 Timofei mikhailov: Russian revolutionary, member of narodnaya volya  

Feb 08 John h been: Town's archivist of brielle (baasje & witkop)  

Feb 10 Alexandre millerand: French president  

Feb 13 Frank van de goes: Dutch writer/marxist theorist  

Feb 13 William strang: Scottish painter/engraver  

Feb 14 George washington gale ferris: Engineer/inventor (ferris wheel)  

Feb 18 Sholem aleichem: [solomon rabinowitz], author (fiddler on the roof)  

Feb 19 Svante august arhenius: Swedish physicist/chemist (nobel 1903)  

Mar 08 Kenneth grahame: Author (wind, willows)  

Mar 08 Otto taubmann: Composer  

Mar 12 Josef cyril sychra: Composer  

Mar 12 Abraham h. cannon: Mormon apostle  

Mar 13 Ivo bligh: Cricketer (lord darnley england capt v australia 1882-83)  

Mar 16 Alexander stepanovich popov: Russian physicist  

Mar 26 Nikolay alexandrovich sokolov: Composer  

Mar 26 A[lfred] e[dward] housman: England, poet (shropshire lad)  

Mar 26 Adolf hurwitz: German mathematician  

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Jan 08 Antoine gb schayes: Belgian historian/archaeologist,  

Jan 20 B v arnim: Writer,  

Jan 27 Carl a agardh: Swedish botanist/bishop of karlstad,  

Jan 28 Frederick john robinson: 1st viscount goderich, prime minister of the united kingdom (b. 1782)  

Feb 06 Johannes josephus viotta: Composer,  

Feb 23 Zygmunt krasiÅ„ski: Polish romantic poet (b. 1812)  

Feb 26 Ferdinand lukas schubert: Composer,  

Mar 01 Josef theodor krov: Composer,