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

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

Jan 06 On this day in history birth of samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order & progress)  

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 in the year 1859.  

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

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

Jan 24 Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer was born in the year 1859.  

Jan 27 Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 30 Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944) was born in the year 1859.  

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

Feb 02 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)  

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

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 In the year 1859 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 In the year 1859 birth of otto Taubmann, composer  

Mar 12 Abraham H. Cannon, Mormon apostle (d. 1896) was born in the year 1859.  

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 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 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 in the year 1859.  

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

Jan 27 In the year 1859 carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74  

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

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

Feb 23 Zygmunt KrasiÅ„ski, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812) died on this day in history.  

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

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