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| Born : | 01/11/1859 | (Gerard) Jan Ligthart, educator (Nog b˜ mother, Ot & Sien) |
| Born : | 03/26/1859 | A E Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad) |
| Born : | 09/03/1859 | AAJ Jean Jaurs, French socialist (L'Humanit‚, Les Preuves) |
| Born : | 10/09/1859 | Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair) |
| Born : | 05/26/1859 | Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life) |
| Born : | 01/19/1859 | Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of Calif) |
| Born : | 12/20/1859 | Antonius J Derkinderen, painter |
| Born : | 05/22/1859 | Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice |
| Born : | 07/28/1859 | Balington Booth, founder (Volunteers of America) |
| Born : | 11/23/1859 | Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], criminal |
| Born : | 01/09/1859 | Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder (League of Women Voters) |
| Born : | 11/01/1859 | Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC) |
| Born : | 08/19/1859 | Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox) |
| Born : | 10/29/1859 | Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn) |
| Born : | 09/21/1859 | Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (Sursum Corda, Jack of Spades) |
| Born : | 01/05/1859 | DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) |
| Born : | 04/08/1859 | Edmund Husserl, Germany, philosopher, founded Phenomenology |
| Born : | 12/12/1859 | Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners) |
| Born : | 10/03/1859 | Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler) |
| Born : | 06/23/1859 | Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdams social alderman (building of houses) |
| Born : | 02/13/1859 | Franc Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist |
| Born : | 06/22/1859 | Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music) |
| Born : | 10/19/1859 | Georg Knorr, German engineer (rem system trains) |
| Born : | 02/14/1859 | George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel) |
| Born : | 12/02/1859 | Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte) |
| Born : | 12/21/1859 | Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre) |
| Born : | 02/02/1859 | Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex) |
| Born : | 10/18/1859 | Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927) |
| Born : | 06/21/1859 | Henry O Tanner, artist |
| Born : | 08/19/1859 | Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian |
| Born : | 08/06/1859 | J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon) |
| Born : | 06/10/1859 | Jacques F H Perk, poet (Iris) |
| Born : | 12/26/1859 | Johan F van Bemmelen, zoologist |
| Born : | 10/20/1859 | John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer (Learn by doing) |
| Born : | 02/08/1859 | John H Been, Brielle archivist |
| Born : | 02/08/1859 | John H Leg, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop) |
| Born : | 12/28/1859 | John W Fortescue, military historian |
| Born : | 03/28/1859 | Jos‚phin P‚ladan, French writer/founder (French Red Cross) |
| Born : | 09/24/1859 | Julius Klengel, cellist/composer |
| Born : | 08/12/1859 | Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful) |
| Born : | 03/08/1859 | Kenneth Grahame, author (The Wind, Willows) |
| Born : | 08/04/1859 | Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920) |
| Born : | 05/19/1859 | Lady Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano (Peach Melba) |
| Born : | 12/15/1859 | Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish physician/linguist (Esperanto) |
| Born : | 12/15/1859 | Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, created Esperanto |
| Born : | 05/06/1859 | Luis Mar¡a Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist |
| Born : | 07/17/1859 | Luis Mu¤oz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party) |
| Born : | 12/12/1859 | Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers) |
| Born : | 11/19/1859 | Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody) |
| Born : | 05/15/1859 | Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903) |
| Born : | 05/30/1859 | Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist |
| Born : | 02/18/1859 | Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on Roof) |
| Born : | 10/25/1859 | Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely Flowers) |
| Born : | 02/19/1859 | Svante August Arhenius, founded physical chemistry (Nobel 1903) |
| Born : | 07/13/1859 | Sydney Webb, England, writer/wife of Beatrice Potter |
| Born : | 02/23/1859 | Theodor Batthy nyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary |
| Born : | 12/29/1859 | Venustiano Carranza, pres of M‚xico (1915-20) |
| Born : | 07/06/1859 | Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916) |
| Born : | 02/01/1859 | Victor Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland) |
| Born : | 04/07/1859 | Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale) |
| Born : | 01/27/1859 | Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918) |
| Born : | 12/17/1859 | Willem C Grnings, Cura‡aos publisher (Friends of Pueblo) |
| Born : | 05/06/1859 | Willem Kloos, poet |
| Born : | 10/17/1859 | William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cin Reds) |
| Born : | 09/20/1859 | Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator |
| Died : | 01/27/1859 | Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74 |
| Died : | 07/08/1859 | F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 05/22/1859 | Ferdinand II, King of Sicily, dies |
| Died : | 05/06/1859 | Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies |
| Died : | 07/20/1859 | Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies |
| Died : | 05/10/1859 | Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief & Housewife), dies |
| Died : | 12/02/1859 | John Brown, abolitionist hanged at Charles Town WV |
| Died : | 12/05/1859 | Louis Poinsot, French instrument maker, dies at 82 |
| Died : | 05/05/1859 | Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies |
| Died : | 09/28/1859 | Rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies |
| Died : | 09/05/1859 | W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies |
| Died : | 11/28/1859 | Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies |
| Interest: | 08/04/1859 | [RC] Memorial of St John Mary Vianney, patron of priests |
| Special : | 04/27/1859 | "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard |
| Special : | 06/28/1859 | 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) |
| Special : | 07/01/1859 | 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32 |
| Special : | 09/01/1859 | 1st pullman sleeping car in service |
| Special : | 03/26/1859 | 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury |
| Special : | 01/05/1859 | 1st steamboat sails, Red River |
| Special : | 08/27/1859 | 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn |
| Special : | 09/17/1859 | A man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America |
| Special : | 02/28/1859 | Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery |
| Special : | 07/01/1859 | Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis |
| Special : | 06/24/1859 | Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria |
| Special : | 01/22/1859 | Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premiers, Hanover |
| Special : | 07/05/1859 | Capt NC Brooks discovers Midway Islands |
| Special : | 06/30/1859 | Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope |
| Special : | 11/24/1859 | Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" |
| Special : | 06/12/1859 | Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered |
| Special : | 06/11/1859 | Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada |
| Special : | 08/09/1859 | Elevator patented |
| Special : | 02/25/1859 | First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence |
| Special : | 12/15/1859 | GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun |
| Special : | 09/02/1859 | Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii |
| Special : | 02/10/1859 | Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny |
| Special : | 12/19/1859 | Grading started for Market Street RR |
| Special : | 09/29/1859 | Great auroral display in US |
| Special : | 04/25/1859 | Ground broken for Suez Canal |
| Special : | 04/12/1859 | Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of SF incorporates |
| Special : | 12/02/1859 | John Brown is executed by hanging at Charles Town, (West) VA |
| Special : | 10/16/1859 | John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va |
| Special : | 10/25/1859 | Merchant vessel Royal Charter runs aground at Liverpool, 459 die |
| Special : | 02/17/1859 | Opera "Ballo in Maschera" is produced (Rome) |
| Special : | 04/04/1859 | Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris) |
| Special : | 03/19/1859 | Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris |
| Special : | 02/14/1859 | Oregon admitted as 33rd state |
| Special : | 07/12/1859 | Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass |
| Special : | 09/20/1859 | Patent granted on electric range |
| Special : | 04/30/1859 | Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires |
| Special : | 02/26/1859 | Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins |
| Special : | 03/01/1859 | Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd) |
| Special : | 09/01/1859 | R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare |
| Special : | 09/22/1859 | R Luther discovers asteroid #57 Mnemosyne |
| Special : | 12/18/1859 | South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth" |
| Special : | 04/06/1859 | US recognizes Liberal government in M‚xico's War of Reform |
| Special : | 03/18/1859 | Vera Cruz besieged by Miram¢n (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform |
| Special : | 02/17/1859 | Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premiers in Napoli |
| Special : | 10/19/1859 | Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope |
| Special : | 03/21/1859 | Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated |
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