page_title: 1853
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1853 / Births / January–June
context_page_description: 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1853rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 853rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1853, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Karl von Einem, German general (d. 1934)
  January 2 – Packy Dillon, American professional baseball player (d. 1902)
  January 10 – John Martin Schaeberle, German-American astronomer (d. 1924)
  January 16
  Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor (d. 1937)
  Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, British general (d. 1947)
  January 28
  José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
  Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
  January 29 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician, bacteriologist (d. 1931)
  February 3 – Hudson Maxim, American inventor, chemist (d. 1927)
  February 4 – Kaneko Kentarō, Japanese politician, diplomat (d. 1942)
  February 6 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
  February 18 – Ernest Fenollosa, Catalan-American philosopher (d. 1908)
  February 22 – Annie Le Porte Diggs, Canadian-born state librarian of Kansas (d. 1916)
  March 2 – Ella Loraine Dorsey, American author, journalist, and translator (d. 1935)
  March 5 – Howard Pyle, American artist, fiction writer (d. 1911)
  March 10 – Thomas Mackenzie, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
  March 13 – Robert Felkin, British writer (d. 1926)
  March 14
  Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
  March 14 – Max Saenger, German obstetrician, gynecologist (d. 1903)
  March 25 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, 5th Qajarid Shah of Persia (d. 1907)
  March 27 – Yakov Zhilinsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
  March 29 – Elihu Thomson, English-American engineer, inventor, co-founder of General Electric (d. 1937)
  March 30 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
  April 1 – Marcello Amero D'Aste, Italian admiral, politician (d. 1931)
  April 6 – Emil Jellinek, German automobile entrepreneur (d. 1918)
  April 7
  Ella Eaton Kellogg, American pioneer in dietetics (d. 1920)
  Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (d. 1884)
  April 8 – Laura Alberta Linton, American chemist (d. 1915)
  April 24 – Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer, forensic scientist (d. 1914)
  April 30 – Alexey Abaza, Russian admiral and politician (d. 1917)
  May 4 – Marie Robinson Wright, American travel writer (d. 1914)
  May 8 – Katharine Lente Stevenson, American reformer, missionary, and editor (d. 1919)
  May 20
  Ella Hoag Brockway Avann, American educator (d. 1899)
  Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov, Russian general (d. 1920)
  May 28 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
  June 3 – William Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
  June 12 – Chester Adgate Congdon, Minnesota mining magnate (d. 1916)
caption: Vincent van Gogh
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