Editing 1859 (section)

=== 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]])