page_title: 1859
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1859 / Births / January–March
context_page_description: 1859 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1859th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 859th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1859, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: 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 King of Prussia (d. 1941)
  January 29 – Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, Parisian socialite, model for the painting Portrait of Madame X (d. 1915)
  February 1
  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 priest and venerable (d. 1927)
  February 6 – Elias Disney, American farmer, father of Walt Disney (d. 1941)
  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 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 4 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
  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)
  March 26 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
caption: Jacqueline Comerre-Paton
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