Editing 1859 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–March ===
[[File:Bain News Service - The Library of Congress - Kaiser Wilhelm (LOC) (pd).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wilhelm II of Germany]]]]
[[File:Louise DeKoven Bowen.png|110px|thumbnail|[[Louise DeKoven Bowen]]]]
[[File:Comerre, Portrait de la femme de l'artiste, StrasbourgMAMCS (2).JPG|110px|thumbnail|[[Jacqueline Comerre-Paton]]]]
[[File:Conan doyle.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Arthur Conan Doyle]]]]
* [[January 6]] – [[Hugh Rodman]], American admiral (d. [[1940]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Fanny Bullock Workman]], American geographer, writer and mountain climber (d. [[1925]])
* [[January 11]] – [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston]], British statesman, [[Viceroy of India]] (d. [[1925]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Wilhelm II of Germany]], last Emperor of Germany and [[List of rulers of Prussia|King of Prussia]] (d. [[1941]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Historic Figures: Wilhelm II (1859–1941) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilhelm_kaiser_ii.shtml |website=BBC History |access-date=22 August 2018}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] – [[Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau]], American-born Parisian socialite, model for the painting ''[[Portrait of Madame X]]'' (d. [[1915]])
* [[February 1]]
** [[Henry Miller (actor)|Henry Miller]], English-born American stage actor, producer (d. [[1926]])
** [[Victor Herbert]], Irish-born composer (''Babes In Toyland'') (d. [[1924]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Hugo Junkers]], German industrialist, aircraft designer (d. [[1935]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Louis Cheikho]], Lebanese [[Jesuit]] [[Chaldean Catholics|Chaldean]] priest and venerable (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Akiyama Yoshifuru]], Japanese general (d. [[1930]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Alexandre Millerand]], President of France (d. [[1943]])
* [[February 14]]
** [[Henry Valentine Knaggs]], English physician, author (d. [[1954]])
** [[George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.]], American inventor of the [[Ferris wheel]] (d. [[1896]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Svante Arrhenius]], Swedish chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 24]] – [[George Edwin Patey]], British admiral (d. [[1935]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Vasil Kutinchev]], Bulgarian general (d. [[1941]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Louise DeKoven Bowen]], American philanthropist, activist (d. [[1953]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Florian Cajori]], Swiss historian of mathematics (d. [[1930]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Sholem Aleichem]], Ukrainian Yiddish novelist (d. [[1916]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Kenneth Grahame]], English author (d. [[1932]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Alexandru Averescu]], Romanian general and politician, 24th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (d. [[1938]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Abraham H. Cannon]], American Mormon apostle (d. [[1896]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner]], American physician (d. [[1915]])
* {{OldStyleDateNY|[[March 16]]|March 4}} – [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov]], Russian physicist (d. [[1906]] [O.S. 1905])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Radovsky |first1=M. |translator-last=Yankovsky |translator-first=G. |title=Alexander Popov Inventor of Radio |date=2001 |publisher=University Press of the Pacific |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |isbn=978-0-89875-307-3 |page=5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZZTUZbjYJsC&pg=PA5 |chapter=From childhood to university}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – [[Hendrik Wortman]], Dutch civil engineer (d. [[1939]])<ref>{{cite journal
 |title=Hendrik Wortman 
 |last=Horn-van Nispen 
 |first=Marie-Louise ten
 |journal=Tijdschrift voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis
 |publisher=Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis
 |page=60
 |url=https://www.waterstaatsgeschiedenis.nl/tijdschrift/2004-2/
 |volume=13
 |issue=2
 |year=2004
}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – [[A. E. Housman]], English poet (d. [[1936]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 3]] – [[Reginald De Koven]], American composer, music critic (d. [[1920]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Jacques Loeb]], German–American physiologist, biologist (d. [[1924]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Edmund Husserl]], Austrian philosopher (d. [[1938]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John K. Roth|author2=Christina J. Moose|author3=Rowena Wildin|title=World Philosophers and Their Works: Freud, Sigmund - Oakeshott, Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0IUAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-880-1|page=899}}</ref>
* [[April 14]] – [[Luigi Capello]], Italian general (d. [[1941]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Willis Van Devanter]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1941]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Jacqueline Comerre-Paton]], French artist (d. [[1955]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Pierre Curie]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1906]])
* [[May 22]] – Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], Scottish writer (d. [[1930]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Belle Archer]], American actress (d. [[1900]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Doveton Sturdee]], British admiral (d. [[1925]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Henry Ossawa Tanner]], American artist (d. [[1937]])

=== July–September ===
[[File:Dora Knowlton Ranous.png|thumb|110px|[[Dora Knowlton Ranous]]]]

* [[July 1]] – [[DeLancey W. Gill]], American artist (d. [[1940]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Glenn |first=J. R. |date=1983 |title=De Lancey W. Gill: Photographer for the Bureau of American Ethnology |journal=[[History of Photography (journal)|History of Photography]] |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=7–22 |doi=10.1080/03087298.1983.10442742}}</ref>

* [[July 6]]
** [[Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army officer, born 1859)|Alexander Hamilton-Gordon]], British general (d. [[1939]])
** [[Verner von Heidenstam]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1940]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield]], British co-founder of the [[London School of Economics]] (d. [[1947]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sidney-and-Beatrice-Webb |title=Sidney and Beatrice Webb {{!}} British economists|work=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=February 24, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 28]] – [[Mary Anderson (actress, born 1859)|Mary Anderson]], American stage actress (d. [[1940]])<ref name="Herringshaw1914">{{cite book|author=Thomas William Herringshaw|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTABAAAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=American publishers' association|page=277}}</ref>
* [[July 29]] – [[Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz]], Portuguese priest (d. [[1948]])<ref>[[:File:Assento de baptismo, Padre Cruz (25 Fevereiro 1860).png|Livro de Registo de Baptismos 1860/1865 (fl. 7–7v.), Paróquia de São João Baptista, Alcochete]] – Arquivo Distrital de Setúbal</ref>
* [[August 2]] – [[Auguste Adib Pacha]], 2-time prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1936]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Knut Hamsun]], Norwegian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1952]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Dora Knowlton Ranous]], American actress, author and translator (d. [[1916]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Anna Ancher]], Danish painter (d. [[1935]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Jean Jaurès]], French socialist (d. [[1914]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Margaret Crosfield]], British palaeontologist, geologist (d. [[1952]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Yuan Shikai]], Chinese dictator (d. [[1916]])
* [[September 17]]
** William H. Bonney ([[Billy The Kid]]), American outlaw, gunfighter (d. [[1881]])
** [[I. L. Patterson]], American politician, 18th [[Governor of Oregon]] (d. [[1929]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Lincoln Loy McCandless]], Hawaiian politician, rancher (d. [[1940]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Marshall Pinckney Wilder]], American actor, humorist, comedian and monologist (d. [[1915]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Francesc Macià]], Catalan politician (d. [[1933]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Radko Dimitriev]], Bulgarian and Russian general (d. [[1918]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Alfredo Baquerizo]], 19th President of Ecuador (d. [[1951]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]] – [[Frank Seiberling]], American inventor, co-founder of [[Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company]] (d. [[1955]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Alfred Dreyfus]], French military officer, subject of the [[Dreyfus affair]] (d. [[1935]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Diana Abgar]], Armenian diplomat (d. [[1937]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Henri Bergson]], French philosopher, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[1941]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Spencer Tucker|author2=Laura Matysek Wood|author3=Justin D. Murphy|title=The European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gv3GEyB19wIC&pg=PA124|year=1999|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-3351-7|pages=124}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] – [[John Dewey]], American philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. [[1952]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka]], Austro-Hungarian nobleman and field marshal (d. [[1946]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Belle Gunness]], born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth, Norwegian-born serial killer (d. [[1908]]?)
* [[November 14]] – [[Alexander Samsonov]], Russian general (d. [[1914]])
* [[November 15]]
** [[Jean César Graziani]], French general (d. [[1932]])
** [[Christopher Hornsrud]], 11th prime minister of Norway (d. [[1960]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov]], Russian composer (d. [[1935]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Cass Gilbert]], American architect ([[Woolworth Building]], [[United States Supreme Court building]]) (d. [[1934]])
* [[November 27]] – [[William Bliss Baker]], American painter (d. [[1886]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Jesse Pomeroy]], youngest convicted murderer in Massachusetts (d. [[1932]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Georges Seurat]], French painter (d. [[1891]])
* [[December 5]] – [[John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe]], British admiral (d. [[1935]])
* [[December 15]] – [[L. L. Zamenhof]], Polish creator of Esperanto (d. [[1917]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Paul César Helleu]], French artist (d. [[1927]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Wilmer W. MacElree]], American lawyer and author (d. [[1960]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Olive E. Dana]], American author (d. [[1904]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Venustiano Carranza]], 37th President of Mexico (d. [[1920]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Vittorio Alinari]], Italian photographer (d. [[1932]])
* [[Stanisław Roman Lewandowski]], Polish sculptor (d. [[1940]])<ref name="Polonia">{{cite book |title=Polonia: Lewandowski, Stanisław Roman (in Polish) |date=1939 |publisher=Drukarnia Wydanicza |location=Warsawa |url=https://polona.pl/item/czy-wiesz-kto-to-jest-uzupelnienia-i-sprostowania,ODQ1NjUxOA/181/#info:metadata}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Manton Merrill]], English-American journalist and writer (d. [[1893]])