May 19
Today In History

Birthdays In History 1859

1859 Michael Joseph Owens American inventor (d. 1923)

1859 Thibaw Min Burmese king (d. 1916)

1859 Samuel Alexander Australian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1938)

1859 Fanny Bullock Workman American mountaineer geographer and cartographer (d. 1925)

1859 Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia Spanish philosopher and academic (d. 1909)

1859 George Curzon 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston English politician 35th Governor-General of India (d. 1925)

1859 Kostis Palamas Greek poet and playwright (d. 1943)

1859 Archibald Peake English-Australian politician 25th Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)

1859 Hugo Junkers German engineer designed the Junkers J 1 (d. 1935)

1859 Akiyama Yoshifuru Japanese general (d. 1930)

1859 Alexandre Millerand French lawyer and politician 12th President of France (d. 1943)

1859 George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. American engineer inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896)

1859 Svante Arrhenius Swedish physicist and chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)

1859 Bertha Pappenheim Austrian-German activist and author (d. 1936)

1859 Sholem Aleichem Ukrainian-American author and playwright (d. 1916)

1859 Kenneth Grahame British author (d. 1932)

1859 Ernesto Cesàro Italian mathematician (d. 1906)

1859 Alexander Stepanovich Popov Russian physicist and inventor (d. 1906)

1859 Daria Pratt American golfer (d. 1938)

1859 A. E. Housman English poet and scholar (d. 1936)

1859 Adolf Hurwitz German-Swiss mathematician and academic (d. 1919)

1859 George Giffen Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1927)

1859 Emil Fenyvessy Hungarian actor and screenwriter (d. 1924)

1859 Reinhold Seeberg German theologian (d. 1935)

1859 Walter Camp American football player and coach (d. 1925)

1859 Edmund Husserl German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1938)

1859 Stefanos Thomopoulos Greek historian and author (d. 1939)

1859 Jacqueline Comerre-Paton French painter and sculptor (d. 1955)

1859 Jerome K. Jerome English author and playwright (d. 1927)

1859 August Herrmann American executive in Major League Baseball (d.1931)

1859 Charles B. Hanford American Shakespearean actor (d. 1926)

1859 Johan Jensen Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925)

1859 William Alden Smith American lawyer and politician (d. 1932)

1859 Frank Wilson English-Australian politician ninth Premier of Western Australia (d. 1918)

1859 Pierre Curie French physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)

1859 Horace Hutchinson English golfer (d. 1932)

1859 Tsubouchi Shōyō Japanese author playwright and educator (d. 1935)

1859 Smith Wigglesworth English evangelist (d. 1947)

1859 Emanuel Nobel Swedish-Russian businessman (d. 1932)

1859 Christian von Ehrenfels Austrian philosopher (d. 1932)

1859 Henry Ossawa Tanner American-French painter and illustrator (d. 1937)

1859 Rettamalai Srinivasan Indian politician (d. 1945)

1859 Sidney Webb 1st Baron Passfield English economist and politician Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1947)

1859 Willy Hess German violinist and educator (d. 1928)

1859 Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz Portuguese priest (d. 1948)

1859 Henry Simpson Lunn English minister and humanitarian founded Lunn Poly (d. 1939)

1859 Knut Hamsun Norwegian novelist poet and playwright Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)

1859 Katharine Lee Bates American poet and author (d. 1929)

1859 Charles Comiskey American baseball player and manager (d. 1931)

1859 Matilda Howell American archer (d. 1938)

1859 Vittorio Sella Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)

1859 Macpherson Robertson Australian businessman and philanthropist founded MacRobertson's (d. 1945)

1859 Vjenceslav Novak Croatian author and playwright (d. 1905)

1859 Frank Dawson Adams Canadian geologist and academic (d. 1942)

1859 Billy the Kid American gunman (d. 1881)

1859 I. L. Patterson American politician 18th Governor of Oregon (d. 1929)

1859 John L. Bates American lawyer and politician 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)

1859 Lincoln Loy McCandless American businessman and politician (d. 1940)

1859 Francesc Macià Catalan colonel and politician 122nd President of Catalonia (d. 1933)

1859 Julius Klengel German cellist and composer (d. 1933)

1859 Childe Hassam American painter and illustrator (d. 1935)

1859 Henri Bergson French philosopher and theologian Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

1859 Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (d. 1949)

1859 Charles Brantley Aycock American educator lawyer and politician 50th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1912)

1859 Christopher Hornsrud Norwegian businessman and politician 11th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)

1859 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Russian composer conductor and educator (d. 1935)

1859 Cecil Sharp English folk song scholar (d. 1924)

1859 Cass Gilbert American architect designed the United States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building (d. 1934)

1859 William Bliss Baker American painter (d. 1886)

1859 L. L. Zamenhof Polish linguist and ophthalmologist created Esperanto (d. 1917)

1859 Paul César Helleu French painter and illustrator (d. 1927)

1859 Gustave Kahn French poet and critic (d. 1936)

1859 William Stephens American lawyer and politician 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)

1859 Venustiano Carranza Mexican soldier and politician 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920)

1859 Victor Herbert Irish-American cellist composer and conductor (d. 1924)

Alfred Dreyfus

Profession -

Born - Oct 09,1859

Died - Jul 12,1935

French

Arthur Conan Doyle

Profession - Author

Born - May 22,1859

Died - Jul 07,1930

British

Billy the Kid

Profession - Outlaw

Born - Nov 23,1859

Died - Jul 14,1881

American

Carrie Chapman Catt

Profession - Suffragist

Born - Jan 09,1859

Died - Mar 09,1947

American

Georges Seurat

Profession - Painter

Born - Dec 02,1859

Died - Mar 29,1891

French

John Dewey

Profession - Philosopher

Born - Oct 20,1859

Died - Jun 01,1952

American

John Jellicoe

Profession - Admiral

Born - Dec 05,1859

Died - Nov 20,1935

British

Thomas J. Walsh

Profession - Lawyer

Born - Jun 12,1859

Died - Mar 02,1933

American

Wilhelm II

Profession - Emperor

Born - Jan 27,1859

Died - Jun 04,1941

Prussian

Yuan Shikai

Profession - Emperor

Born - Sep 16,1859

Died - Jun 06,1916

Chinese

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