Famous People Born In 1859
Discover the most famous people born in 1859. The list includes people like Billy the Kid, John Dewey, Pierre Curie, Henri Bergson, Svante Arrhenius and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include novelists, poets, inventors and political leaders born in 1859. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Billy the Kid17th November, American
Gunman
John Dewey20th October, American
Philosopher
Pierre Curie15th May, French
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Alfred Dreyfus9th October, French
Artillery Officer
Georges Seurat2nd December, French
Painter
Edmund Husserl8th April, Austrian, German
Philosopher
Yuan Shikai16th September, Chinese
Former President of the Republic of China
Belle Gunness11th November, Norwegian, American
Serial Killer
Henri Bergson18th October, French
Philosopher and Writer
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston11th January, British
Former Viceroy of India
Wilhelm II27th January, German
Emperor of Germany
Knut Hamsun4th August, Norwegian
Writer
Venustiano Carranza29th December, Mexican
Politician
Samuel Insull11th November, American
Business Magnate
Svante Arrhenius19th February, Swedish
Scientist
Jerome K. Jerome2nd May, British
Writer
A. E. Housman26th March, British
Poet
Sholem Aleichem2nd March, American
Author
Havelock Ellis2nd February, British
Physician
Carrie Chapman Catt9th January, American
Women’s Rights Activists
Henry Ossawa Tanner21st June, American
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle22nd May, British, Scottish
Writer & Physician
Anna Ancher18th August, Danish
Painter
Aurel Stodola10th May, Slovak
Engineer
Dorabji Tata27th August, Indian
Kenneth Grahame8th March, British
Writer, Novelist, Children's writer
Archibald Gracie IV17th January, American
historian, writer
Fusajiro Yamauchi22nd November, Japanese
Entrepreneur
George Lansbury21st February, British
Social Reformer
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe5th December, British
Royal Navy officer
L. L. Zamenhof15th December, Polish
Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet,
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Alexander Stepanovich Popov16th March, Russian
Physicist, Inventor, Engineer
Jean Jaurès3rd September, French
Political leader
Hugo Junkers3rd February, German
Engineer
Charles Comiskey15th August, American
Baseball player
Victor Herbert1st February, Irish, American
Composer
Childe Hassam17th October, American
Painter
Walter Camp7th April, American
Football Player
Francesc Macià21st September, Spanish
Politician
Katharine Lee Bates12th August, American
poet, writer, university teacher, songwriter
Bertha Pappenheim27th February, Austrian, German
Writer, Journalist, Social worker, Feminist
Cass Gilbert29th November, American
architect, painter
Francis Thompson18th December, British
Poet
Pierre Janet30th May, French
Psychologist
Alexandre Millerand10th February, French
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Florence Kelley12th September, American
Social Reformer
Théophile Steinlen10th November, Swiss, French
Painter, Illustrator, Poster artist, Sculptor,
Pavel Milyukov27th January, Russian
Historian
Cecil Sharp22nd November, British
Musician
Willis Van Devanter17th April, American
Jurist
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield13th July, British
Economist
Lord Curzon11th January, British
Former Viceroy of India
Luis Muñoz Rivera17th July, Puerto Rican
Poet
Irving Bacheller26th September, American
Journalist
Alexandru Averescu3rd April, Romanian, Ukrainian
Politician
Frank Johnson Goodnow18th January, American
Educator
Verner von Heidenstam6th July, Swedish
Swedish poet
Thomas J. Walsh12th June, American
United States senator
Louis Majorelle26th September, French
Designer
Ellen Gates Starr19th March, American
Social Reformer
Karl Muck22nd October, Swiss, German
Conductor
Katharine Tynan23rd January, Irish
Writer
Christian von Ehrenfels20th June, Austrian
Philosopher
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov19th November, Russian
Composer
Pauline Hopkins30th November, American
Novelist
Anatole Le Braz2nd April, French
Poet
Nahum Sokolow10th January, Polish
Writer
Theobald Smith31st July, American
Pathologist
Samuel Alexander6th January, Australian
British philosopher
Edward Martyn30th January, Irish
Playwright
Philippe Bunau-Varilla26th July, French
Engineer
Thomas Mott Osborne23rd September, American
Political Figure
Enrico Barone22nd December, Italian
Economist
Jacques Loeb7th April, German, American
Physiologist
Frank William Taussig28th December, American
Economist
Henry Ives Cobb19th August, American
Architect
Jānis Čakste14th September, Latvian
President
Ada Rehan22nd April, Irish, American
Actress
Edward R. Bradley12th December, American
Businessman
Horace Everett Hooper8th December, American
Publisher
Harry Fielding Reid18th May, American
Geophysicist
Alfred Hettner6th August, German
Geographer
Émile Meyerson12th February, French, Polish
Epistemologist
Léon Duguit4th February, French
Scholar
Robert Hope-Jones9th February, British
Musician
Gustave Kahn21st December, French
Poet
Hippolyte Delehaye19th August, Belgian
Scholar
S. R. Crockett24th September, Scottish
Novelist
Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera22nd December, Mexican
Writer
Reginald De Koven3rd April, American
Music Critic
Tsubouchi Shōyō22nd June, Japanese
Author
Ernest Rhys17th July, British
Witer
Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris8th May, Canadian
Lawyer
Ludwig Knorr2nd December, German
Chemist