page_title: 1857
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1857 / Births / January–March
caption_attribution_description: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Published in Lenard, P. (1930) Grosse Naturforscher, T.S. Lehmanns, Munich, 1930
context_page_description: 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1857th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 857th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1857, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 2 – Uryū Sotokichi, Japanese admiral (d. 1937)
  January 4 – Émile Courtet, French caricaturist, animator (d. 1938)
  January 11 – William Gentles, U.S. Army private, known for killing Crazy Horse (d. 1878)
  January 12
  Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1910)
  Léon de Witte de Haelen, Belgian general (d. 1933)
  January 13 – Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (d. 1935)
  January 18 – Otto von Below, German general (d. 1944)
  January 26 – The 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (d. 1875)
  January 31 – George Jackson Churchward, British chief mechanical engineer of the  Great Western Railway(d. 1933)
  February 1 – Lucy Wheelock, American early childhood education pioneer within the kindergarten movement (d. 1946)
  February 13 – Almanzo James Wilder, American writer (d. 1949)
  February 18 – Dmitry Shcherbachev, Russian general (d. 1932)
  February 22
  Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941)
  Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
  March 4
  Constantin Coandă, Romanian general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1932)
  Aleksei Evert, Russian general (d. 1918 or 1926)
  March 6 – George Dayton, American businessman, founder of Target Corporation (d. 1938)
  March 7
  Genevieve Stebbins, American performer of the Delsarte system of expression (d. 1934)
  Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
  March 13
  Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, British general (d. 1932)
  Hilda Sachs, Swedish journalist, women's rights activist (d. 1935)
  March 15 – Christian Michelsen, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1925)
  March 21 – Hunter Liggett, American general (d. 1935)
  March 22 – Paul Doumer, President of France (d. 1932)
  March 26 – Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (d. 1929)
  March 27
  Ella Hepworth Dixon, English author and editor (d. 1932)
  Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
  March 30 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
caption: Heinrich Hertz
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