Famous people born in 1859

The best-known people born in 1859, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
May 22 · d. 1930
Photo: Walter Benington, Public domain
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
December 15 · d. 1917
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859–1941)
October 18 · d. 1941
Photo: Henri Manuel, Public domain
Knut Hamsun
Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
August 4 · d. 1952
Photo: Nasjonalbiblioteket from Norway, Public domain
Pierre Curie
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
May 15 · d. 1906
Photo: Dujardin, Public domain
Wilhelm II
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
January 27 · d. 1941
Photo: Studio of Thomas Heinrich Voigt, Public domain
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)
October 20 · d. 1952
Photo: Unknown Unknown, Public domain
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
February 19 · d. 1927
Photo: Photogravure Meisenbach Riffarth & Co. Leipzig., Public domain
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (1859–1938)
April 8 · d. 1938
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish writer (1859–1940)
July 6 · d. 1940
Photo: Johan Krouthén, Public domain
Jerome K. Jerome
English humorist (1859-1927)
May 2 · d. 1927
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain
Georges Seurat
French painter (1859-1891)
December 2 · d. 1891
Photo: Unidentified photographer, Public domain
Jean Jaurès
French / Occitan socialist leader (1859-1914)
September 3 · d. 1914
Photo: Nadar, Public domain
Alfred Dreyfus
French artillery officer (1859–1935)
October 9 · d. 1935
Photo: Aron Gerschel, Public domain
Sholem Aleichem
Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)
March 2 · d. 1916
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary (1859–1925)
January 11 · d. 1925
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain
Alexandre Millerand
French lawyer and statesman (1859–1943)
February 10 · d. 1943
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Yuan Shikai
Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)
September 16 · d. 1916
Photo: Photo by Rio V. De Sieux [1], Public domain
Aleksandr Popov
Russian physicist (1859–1906)
March 16 · d. 1906
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Kenneth Grahame
British novelist
March 8 · d. 1932
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Venustiano Carranza
44th President of Mexico
December 29 · d. 1920
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Havelock Ellis
British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)
February 2 · d. 1939
Photo: Smithsonian Institution from United States, Public domain
Peter Altenberg
Austrian writer and poet (1859–1919)
March 9 · d. 1919
Francesc Macià i Llussà
President of Generalitat de Catalunya (1931-33)
September 21 · d. 1933
Pavel Milyukov
Russian politician and historian (1859-1943)
January 27 · d. 1943
Alfred Edward Housman
British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)
March 26 · d. 1936
Hugo Junkers
German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
February 3 · d. 1935
Carrie Chapman Catt
American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
January 9 · d. 1947
Jānis Čakste
1st president of Latvia (1859-1927)
September 14 · d. 1927
Anna Ancher
Danish impressionist painter (1859-1935)
August 18 · d. 1935

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Thibaw Min, Last king of Burma (1859–1916)
January 6 · Samuel Alexander, Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)
January 7 · Feng Guozhang, Chinese general (1859-1919)
January 8 · Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (1859–1925)
January 13 · Kostis Palamas, Greek poet
January 14 · Francisco Ferrer, Spanish freethinker, anarchist and educator (1859–1909)

February

February 4 · Léon Duguit, French legal scholar (1859–1928)
February 14 · George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer (1859-1896)
February 17 · Nikolay Gamaleya, Russian and Soviet physician and scientist who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research (1859-1949)
February 21 · Mikhail Rodzianko, Russian politician (1859-1924)
February 27 · Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian feminist (1859–1936)
February 28 · Florian Cajori, American mathematician (1859–1930)

March

March 12 · Ernesto Cesaro, Italian mathematician (1859-1906)
March 14 · Adolf Bertram, German cardinal (1859-1945)
March 21 · Alexandru Averescu, Marshal and former Prime Minister of Romania (1859-1938)
March 26 · Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (1859–1919)
March 26 · Teodor Teodorov, Bulgarian politician (1859-1924)
March 27 · 'Abd al-Ahad Khan, 17th emir of the Manghit dynasty (1859–1910)

April

April 2 · Anatole Le Braz, Breton writer and scholar (1859–1926)
April 7 · Jacques Loeb, German-American physiologist and biologist (1859-1924)
April 7 · Walter Camp, American football player and coach, college athletics administrator (1859-1925)
April 14 · Luigi Capello, Italian general (1859–1941)
April 20 · Vincenzo Cerulli, Italian astronomer (1859–1927)
April 26 · Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, Russian grand duke (1859-1919); eldest child of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia and Princess Cecilie of Baden

May

May 8 · Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (1859–1925)
May 10 · Aurel Stodola, Slovak scientist (1859–1942)
May 13 · Teodor Axentowicz, Polish artist (1859-1938)
May 14 · Natalie of Serbia, Serbian queen (1859–1941)
May 22 · Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese writer (1859–1935)
May 30 · Pierre Janet, French psychologist (1859–1947)

June

June 12 · Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgian prince (1859–1869)
June 16 · Paja Jovanović, Serbian painter (1859-1957)
June 17 · Georg Wissowa, German classical philologist (1859–1931)
June 20 · Christian von Ehrenfels, Austrian philosopher (1859-1932)
June 21 · Henry Ossawa Tanner, African-American painter (1859–1937)
June 28 · José Sánchez Guerra, Spanish politician (1859-1935)

July

July 1 · Saad Zaghloul, Prime Minister of Egypt (1859–1927)
July 4 · Charles Diehl, French Byzantinist (1859–1944)
July 13 · Sidney Webb, English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)
July 20 · Otto Warburg, German botanist (1859-1938)
July 20 · Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, regent of the Principality of Lippe (1859-1916)
July 26 · Virginie Demont-Breton, French painter (1859-1935)

August

August 6 · Alfred Hettner, German geomorphologist (1859–1941)
August 10 · Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician, holocaust victim (1859–1942)
August 12 · Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (1859-1929)
August 27 · Dorabji Tata, Indian industrialist and philanthropist (1859–1932)
August 28 · Emil Goeldi, Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist (1859–1917)
August 28 · Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer (1859–1943)

September

September 1 · Victor Loret, French egyptologist (1859-1946)
September 7 · Juan Campisteguy, Uruguayan soldier, lawyer and president (1859-1937)
September 11 · Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer
September 25 · August von Gödrich, German racing cyclist (1859–1942)
September 26 · Louis Majorelle, French artist (1859–1926)
September 28 · Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, President of Ecuador (1912) / (1916 - 1920) / (1931 - 1932)

October

October 3 · Karin Larsson, Swedish artist (1859-1928)
October 10 · Takeda Sōkaku, Japanese martial artist (1859-1943)
October 12 · Diana Abgar, Armenia ambassador (1859–1937)
October 15 · Kosta Khetagurov, Ossetian poet (1859-1906)
October 17 · Childe Hassam, American painter (1859-1935)
October 29 · Ernst Hartert, German ornithologist (1859–1933)

November

November 5 · Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas, Spanish politician (1859–1938)
November 14 · Alexander Samsonov, Russian general (1859–1914)
November 15 · Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Swedish religious activist (1859-1953); second son of Oscar II of Sweden and Sofia of Nassau
November 19 · Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian and Soviet composer, conductor , musicologist and music teacher (1859–1935)
November 22 · Fusajirō Yamauchi, Japanese entrepreneur (1859–1940)
November 29 · Cass Gilbert, American architect (1859-1934)

December

December 5 · John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer (1859-1935)
December 21 · Gustave Kahn, French symbolist poet and art critic (1859–1936)
December 22 · Otto Hölder, German mathematician (1859–1937)
December 25 · Anna Palm de Rosa, Swedish artist (1859-1924)
December 26 · Sen Katayama, Japanese journalist (1859–1933)
December 30 · Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Czech composer and educator (1859–1951)

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