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Who Was Alive in 1859

60 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1859

Jacob Grimm
Jacob GrimmAge 74
1785–1863 · Literature
Grimm's Fairy Tales
 Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur SchopenhauerAge 71
1788–1860 · Philosophy & Thought
German philosopher of pessimism
 Michael Faraday
Michael FaradayAge 68
1791–1867 · Science & Invention
Electromagnetic induction
 Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 68
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 57
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre DumasAge 57
1802–1870 · Literature
Author of The Three Musketeers
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 56
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 55
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 54
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham LincolnAge 50
1809–1865 · Politics & Leadership
16th US President, ended slavery
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 50
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 48
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Charles Dickens
Charles DickensAge 47
1812–1870 · Literature
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 46
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 46
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 44
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 41
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 41
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 40
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 40
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 40
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 39
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 39
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 39
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 38
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Charles Baudelaire
Charles BaudelaireAge 38
1821–1867 · Literature
French poet of Les Fleurs du mal
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 37
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 37
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 37
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics
 Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 31
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 31
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
 Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 31
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
 Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonAge 29
1830–1886 · Literature
Reclusive poetic genius
 Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 28
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
 James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk MaxwellAge 28
1831–1879 · Science & Invention
Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 26
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
 Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 25
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
 Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 24
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 24
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
 John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 20
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
 Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 19
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 19
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
 Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 19
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 18
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
 Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 15
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
 Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 15
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
 Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 12
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
 Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 12
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
 Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 11
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
 Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 7
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
 Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van GoghAge 6
1853–1890 · Art
Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon
 Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 5
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
 Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 3
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
 Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 3
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 3
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
 George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 3
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 1
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
 Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 1
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
 Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 1
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
 Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 0
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes

Born in 1859

Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes

Also Born in 1859

L. L. Zamenhof
1859–1917 · born December 15
Creator of Esperanto (1859–1917)
Henri Bergson
1859–1941 · born October 18
French philosopher (1859–1941)
Knut Hamsun
1859–1952 · born August 4
Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
Pierre Curie
1859–1906 · born May 15
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
Wilhelm II
1859–1941 · born January 27
German Emperor from 1888 to 1918
John Dewey
1859–1952 · born October 20
American philosopher, psychologist, and activist (1859–1952)
Svante Arrhenius
1859–1927 · born February 19
Swedish scientist (1859–1927)
Edmund Husserl
1859–1938 · born April 8
Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician (1859–1938)
Jerome K. Jerome
1859–1927 · born May 2
English writer and humorist (1859–1927)
Georges Seurat
1859–1891 · born December 2
French painter (1859–1891)
Alfred Dreyfus
1859–1935 · born October 9
French Army officer (1859–1935)
Billy the Kid
1859–1881 · born September 17
American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)

Also Died in 1859

Alexander von Humboldt
1769–1859 · died May 6
German polymath (1769–1859)
Alexis de Tocqueville
1805–1859 · died April 16
French diplomat, political philosopher and historian (1805–1859)
Washington Irving
1783–1859 · died November 28
American writer, historian and diplomat (1783–1859)
Klemens von Metternich
1773–1859 · died June 11
Austrian statesman (1773–1859)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1800–1859 · died December 28
British historian and politician (1800–1859)
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
1805–1859 · died May 5
German mathematician (1805–1859)
John Brown
1800–1859 · died December 2
American abolitionist (1800–1859)
Oscar I of Sweden
1799–1859 · died July 8
King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to 1859
Thomas De Quincey
1785–1859 · died December 8
English essayist, translator and political economist (1785–1859)
Bettina von Arnim
1785–1859 · died January 20
German writer (1785–1859)
Wilhelm Grimm
1786–1859 · died December 16
German author (1786–1859)
Carl Ritter
1779–1859 · died September 28
German geographer (1779–1859)

Notable World Events in 1859

1859 Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

Sources

  1. 1859 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Jacob Grimm — Wikipedia
  3. Arthur Schopenhauer — Wikipedia
  4. Michael Faraday — Wikipedia
  5. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  6. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  7. Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
  8. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  9. George Sand — Wikipedia
  10. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  11. Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
  12. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  13. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  14. Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
  15. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  16. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  17. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  18. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  19. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  20. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  21. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  22. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  23. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  24. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  25. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  26. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  27. Charles Baudelaire — Wikipedia
  28. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  29. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  30. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
  31. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  32. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  33. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  34. Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
  35. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  36. James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
  37. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  39. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  40. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  41. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  42. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  43. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  44. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  45. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  46. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  47. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  48. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  49. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  50. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  51. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  52. Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
  53. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  54. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  55. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  56. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  57. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  58. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  59. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  60. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  61. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
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