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Emile Verhaeren
Belgian poet (1855-1916)
Percival Lowell
American astronomer (1855-1916)
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
Paul Deschanel
11th President of the French Republic (1855–1922)
Ivan Michurin
Russian botanist (1855-1935)
James S. Sherman
vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (1855–1912)
John Browning
firearms designer of the United States (1855-1926)
Eugene V. Debs
American labor and political leader (1855–1926)
Vsevolod Garshin
Russian author of short stories (1855-1888)
Giovanni Pascoli
Italian poet and classical scholar (1855-1912)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
Inukai Tsuyoshi
Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan (1855–1932)
Yukteswar Giri
Indian yogi, occultist and guru (1855-1936)
Georges Rodenbach
Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist (1855-1898)
Olive Schreiner
South African author and pacifist (1855-1920)
Eleanor Marx
English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)
King Camp Gillette
American entrepreneur (1855–1932)
Ernest Chausson
French composer (1855–1899)
Hermes da Fonseca
President of Brazil (1855-1923)
Otto Liman von Sanders
German general (1855–1929)
Alexandros Zaimis
Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1855–1936)
Marie Corelli
British writer (1855-1924)
Anatoly Lyadov
Russian composer, teacher and conductor (1855-1914)
Robert de Montesquiou
French writer (1855–1921)
Axel Paulsen
Norwegian figure skater and speed skater (1855–1938)
Edwin Hall
American physicist (1855–1938)
Andrew W. Mellon
American diplomat, banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector (1855–1937)
Arthur Nikisch
Hungarian conductor (1855-1922)
Robert M. La Follette
American progressive politician from Wisconsin (1855–1925)
Tommaso Tittoni
Prime Minister of Italy (1855-1931)
Louis de Beaufront
influence in the development of Ido (1855-1935)
Paul Appell
French mathematician (1855-1930)
Innokenty Annensky
Russian poet, critic and translator (1855–1909)
Vlaho Bukovac
Croatian painter (1855-1922)
Robert Koldewey
German archaeologist and architect (1855-1925)
Josiah Royce
American philosopher (1855–1916)
Evelyn De Morgan
Pre-Raphaelite artist (1993- (1855–1919)
Guido Adler
Austrian musicologist, writer (1855–1941)
Hsu Shih-chang
President of the Republic of China (1855–1939)
Živojin Mišić
Field Marshal (1855–1921)
Cecilia Beaux
American artist (1855-1942)
David Bruce
Australian-British physician, pathologist and microbiologist (1855–1931)
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal
Austrian and Portuguese royal (1855–1944)
Clinton Hart Merriam
American zoologist and ornithologist (1855-1942)
Pavlos Kountouriotis
Greek admiral and politician ,former president of the Hellenic Republic (1855–1935)
Arthur Wing Pinero
British writer (1855-1934)
Séverine
French anarchist, journalist and feminist (1855–1929)
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
British aristocrat (1855-1944); father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; maternal grandfather of Elizabeth II
Christian Bohr
Danish physician (1855-1911)
Vladimir Gilyarovsky
Russian journalist and writer (1855-1935)
Eduard Meyer
German ancient historian, Egyptologist and ancient orientalist (1855–1930)
Archduchess Sophie Friederike of Austria
Austrian Imperial and Royal (1855–1857)
Jean Lorrain
French Symbolist poet and novelist (1855–1906)
Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová
Slovak writer (1855-1939), editor
Erik Werenskiold
Norwegian artist (1855-1938)
Eugène Boch
Belgian painter (1855-1941)
Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, then Titular Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855-1934)
Eduard von Keyserling
Baltic German writer (1855–1918)
Sarah E. Goode
American inventor
Alfred Ewing
British physicist and engineer (1855-1935)