page_title: 1854
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1854 / Births / January–June
caption_attribution_description: English: Robert Borden
context_page_description: 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1854th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 854th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1854, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – James George Frazer, Scottish social anthropologist (d. 1941)
  January 8 – Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, British occultist (d. 1918)
  January 9 – Lady Randolph Churchill, born Jennie Jerome, American-born British socialite and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
  January 12
  Kataoka Shichirō, Japanese admiral (d. 1920)
  David Macpherson, Canadian-born American civil engineer (d. 1927)
  January 14 – Nikolai Pavlovich Bobyr, Russian general (d. 1920)
  February 9
  Edward Carson, Irish Unionist MP and barrister (d. 1935)
  Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist (d. 1929)
  February 16 – Charles Webster Leadbeater, British theosophist (d. 1934)
  February 17 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1902)
  February 26 – Mary M. Cohen, American social economist (d. 1911)
  March 4 – Tomás António Garcia Rosado, Portuguese general (d. 1937)
  March 10
  Florence Carpenter Ives, American journalist and editor (d. 1900)
  Stanisław Tondos, Polish painter (d. 1917)
  March 11 – Jane Meade Welch, American historian (d. 1931)
  March 14
  Paul Ehrlich, German physician, scientist  (d. 1915)
  Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States (d. 1925)
  March 15 – Emil von Behring, German physiologist, winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
  March 18 – Nikolai Ruzsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
  March 30 – Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1924)
  April 18 – Ludwig Levy, German architect (d. 1907)
  April 22 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
  April 28 – Hertha Marks Ayrton, English engineer, mathematician and inventor (d. 1923)
  April 29
  Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist (d. 1912)
  Paul von Rennenkampf, Russian nobleman, statesman, and general  (d. 1918)
  May 5 – Orrin Dubbs Bleakley, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (d. 1927)
  May 11 – Albion Woodbury Small, American sociologist (d. 1926)
  May 24 – John Riley Banister, American law officer, Texas Ranger (d. 1918)
  May 25 – Clara Louise Burnham, American novelist (d. 1927)
  June 2 – Adolf von Brudermann, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1945)
  June 8 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
  June 14 – Dave Rudabaugh, American outlaw, gunfighter (d. 1886)
  June 17 – Robert Kekewich, British general (d. 1914)
  June 21 – Andrew Jackson Houston, American politician (d. 1941)
  June 26 – Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada, leader of the World War I (d. 1937)
caption: Robert Laird Borden
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