January 5, 1859 DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer)
January 9, 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader
January 9, 1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters)
January 9, 1859 Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries)
January 11, 1859 [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot & Sien)
January 13, 1859 Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature)
January 13, 1859 Kost¡s Palamas, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Bas¡lia)
January 19, 1859 Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of California)
January 21, 1859 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
January 24, 1859 Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer
January 27, 1859 Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
February 1, 1859 Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
February 2, 1859 Havelock Ellis, U.S. physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)
February 8, 1859 John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)
February 13, 1859 Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist
February 13, 1859 William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
February 14, 1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
February 18, 1859 Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof)
February 19, 1859 Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
February 23, 1859 Theodor Batthyanyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary
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