Claim: In 1856, Louis T. Leonowens was born.
Evidence: Louis Thomas Gunnis Leonowens -LRB- 25 October 1856 -- 17 February 1919 -RRB- was a British subject who was the basis of a major character in the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam , as well as other fictional works based on it -LRB- see below -RRB-.