page_title: 1856
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1856 / Births / January–June
caption_attribution_description: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_woman_of_the_century.djvu
context_page_description: 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1856th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 856th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1856, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 3 – Clara Anhuth, German writer and librarian (d. after 1920)
  January 6 – Martin von Feuerstein, German painter (d. 1931)
  January 9 – Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet and teacher (d. 1935)
  January 11 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (d. 1941)
  January 12 – John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925)
  January 31 – Hermann von François, German general (d. 1933)
  February 2
  Frederick William Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (d. 1938)
  Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (d. 1905)
  February 5 – Frank Podmore, British psychical researcher (d. 1910)
  February 9 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1921)
  February 12 – Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general, German field marshal (d. 1941)
  February 14 – Frank Harris, Irish author, editor (d. 1931)
  February 15 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
  February 17 – Arnold von Winckler, German general (d. 1945)
  February 20 – Prince Unakan Ananta Norajaya, Son of King Mongkut and Piam Sucharitakul (d. 1873)
  February 21
  Paul Puhallo von Brlog, Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1926)
  Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (d. 1879)
  February 26 – Elizabeth Marney Conner, American elocutionist (unknown year of death)
  March 2 – Louis Dartige du Fournet, French admiral (d. 1940)
  March 4
  Julius Drewe, English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur (d. 1931)
  Alfred William Rich, English watercolour painter, author (d. 1921)
  March 8
  Bramwell Booth, English Salvation Army general (d. 1929)
  Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)
  March 9
  Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (d. 1928)
  Jules-Albert de Dion, French automobile pioneer (d. 1946)
  March 16 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (k. 1879)
  March 20
  Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
  Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor and efficiency expert (d. 1915)
  March 26 – William Massey, Irish-born 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1925)
  April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)
  April 6 – Maurice Sarrail, French general (d. 1929)
  April 12 – William Martin Conway, British art critic, mountaineer (d. 1937)
  April 14 – Albert W. Grant, American admiral (d. 1930)
  April 18
  Hammerton Killick, Haitian admiral (d. 1902)
  Anna Sterky, Danish-born Swedish trade unionist, women's rights activist (d. 1939)
  April 23 – Granville T. Woods, African-American inventor (d. 1910)
  April 24 – Philippe Pétain, French soldier, statesman (d. 1951)
  April 26 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
  April 27 – Tongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1875)
  May 6
  Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist (d. 1939)
  Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (d. 1920)
  May 8 – Pedro Lascuráin, 34th President of Mexico (d. 1952)
  May 13 – Fernando Tamagnini de Abreu e Silva, Portuguese general (d. 1924)
  May 15 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (The Wizard of Oz) (d. 1919)
  May 18 – Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi, Italian nobleman, general and politician (d. 1941)
  May 21 – José Batlle y Ordóñez, Twice President of Uruguay (d. 1929)
  May 25
  Ján Bahýľ, Slovak engineer, inventor (d. 1916)
  Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
  June 14 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922)
  June 22 – H. Rider Haggard, English novelist (d. 1925)
  June 29 – Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish journalist   (d. 1935)
caption: Elizabeth Marney Conner
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