1850s births

Sharif and Emir of Mecca, then King of Hejaz and Sharifian Caliph (1854–1931)

American communist anarchist labor organizer (1853–1942)

mother of Joseph Stalin

Ethiopian Empress Consort (1851-1918)

father of Joseph Stalin (1850–1909)

Sultan of Zanzibar (1857–1896)

Wovoka ( – September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Paiute religious leader who founded a second episode of the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.

Iranian writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran.

Japanese physician

Omani sultan of Zanzibar (1853–1902)

German-Russian photographer (1855-1929)

Sultan of Zanzibar (1890-1893)

Hehe tribal leader in German East Africa (1855-1898)

assassin (1856–1881)

British-American actor and film director (1852-1923)

Spanish writer, poet and playwright (1851–1923)

Turkish painter (1857–1939)

King Aweida of Nauru (Nauruan: Aweijeda Jim Naoero) ( 1850 – 1921) or formally King Aweida was the King and later Head Chief of Nauru from 1875 until his death in 1921. He was succeeded by his son Moses Ballarat.

American actress and interior decorator (1865-1950)

Sultan of Zanzibar (1852–1890)

Consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II (c.1851–c.1908)

Sultan of Darfur

Keish ( – July 11, 1916), also known as James Mason and by the nickname Skookum Jim Mason, was a member of the Tagish First Nation in what became the Yukon Territory of Canada. He was born near Bennett Lake, on what is now the Yukon–British Columbia border. He lived in Caribou Crossing, now Carcross, Yukon.

Swazi royal regent

Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist (1854–1903)

Russian Jewish novelist (1851–1919)

Iranian revolutionary (1856-1917)

Russian physician

Ethiopian politician

Gujarati, Parsi and Urdu theatre actress of India

thumb|300px|Ngungunhane when captured by the Portuguese colonial army in December, 1895 Ngungunyane, also known as Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, '''N'gungunhana, or Gungunhana Reinaldo Frederico Gungunhana''', (c. 1850 – 23 December 1906) was a king of the Gaza Empire and vassal of the Portuguese Empire, who rebelled, was defeated by General Joaquim Mouzinho de Albuquerque and lived out the rest of his life in exile, first in Lisbon, but later on the island of Terceira, in the Azores.

American actor and director (1855-1920)

American chemist

Mbandzeni (also known as Dlamini IV, Umbandine, Umbandeen) (c. 1855–1889) was the King of Swaziland (now Eswatini) from 1872 until 1889. Ingwenyama Mbandzeni was the son of Mswati II and Nandzi Nkambule. His mother the wife of King Mswati had died when he was still very young.

Ossetian writer

Portuguese writer and diplomat (1854-1917)

Chief Naiche ( ; –1919) was the final hereditary chief of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.

Chinese Jewish businessman

African American artist and sharecropper (1854-1949)

King of Hogbonu

Murderer of Wild Bill Hickok

Greek army general (1861–1928)

Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, also called Overami, was the thirty-fifth Ọba of the Kingdom of Benin reigning from , up until the British punitive expedition.

Crow scout

Uruguayan politician (1857-1904)

Angata, full name María Angata Veri Tahi ʻa Pengo Hare Koho ( – December 1914) was a Catholic Rapa Nui religious leader from Easter Island during the late 19th and early 20th century. After experiencing a prophetic vision in which God instructed her to retake the land and livestock, she led an unsuccessful rebellion on the island against the Williamson-Balfour Company, intending to create a theocracy centered on Catholicism and Rapa Nui spiritual values.

Italian painter (1857-1935)

Romanian philologist and librarian

American photographer

Turkish author (1852-1887)

American actress (1859-1916)

American electrical engineer

Australian politician (1858-1953)

Ngāti Mahuta; Māori King, politician

Algerian Sufi religious leader

American former slave

First Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband

American conductor

German musician (1852–1922)

Australian journalist, literary critic and social reformer