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Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859–1941)
Knut Hamsun
Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
Wilhelm II
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish writer (1859–1940)
Jerome K. Jerome
English humorist (1859-1927)
Georges Seurat
French painter (1859-1891)
Jean Jaurès
French / Occitan Socialist leader (1859-1914)
Alfred Dreyfus
French artillery officer (1859–1935)
Sholem Aleichem
Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)
Billy the Kid
American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary (1859–1925)
Alexandre Millerand
French lawyer and statesman (1859–1943)
Yuan Shikai
Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Russian physicist
Kenneth Grahame
British novelist
Venustiano Carranza
44th President of Mexico
Peter Altenberg
Austrian writer and poet (1859–1919)
Havelock Ellis
British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)
Francesc Macià i Llussà
President of Generalitat de Catalunya (1931-33)
Pavel Milyukov
Russian politician and historian (1859-1943)
Hugo Junkers
German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
Alfred Edward Housman
British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)
Jānis Čakste
1st president of Latvia (1859-1927)
Carrie Chapman Catt
American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
Francisco Ferrer
Spanish freethinker, anarchist and educator (1859–1909)
Saad Zaghloul
Prime Minister of Egypt (1859–1927)
Kostis Palamas
Greek poet
Anna Ancher
Danish impressionist painter (1859-1935)
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Royal Navy officer (1859-1935)
Alexandru Averescu
Marshal and former Prime Minister of Romania (1859-1938)
Nikolay Gamaleya
Russian and Soviet physician and scientist who played a pioneering role in microbiology and vaccine research (1859-1949)
Alexander Samsonov
Russian general (1859–1914)
Kosta Khetagurov
Ossetian poet (1859-1906)
Pierre Janet
French psychologist (1859–1947)
Diana Abgar
Armenia ambassador (1859–1937)
Sidney Webb
English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia
Russian Imperial (1859-1919)
Thibaw Min
Last king of Burma (1859–1916)
Adolf Hurwitz
German mathematician (1859–1919)
Ernst Hartert
German ornithologist (1859–1933)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Russian and Soviet composer, conductor , musicologist and music teacher (1859–1935)
Ernesto Cesaro
Italian mathematician (1859-1906)
Gustave Kahn
French Symbolist poet and art critic (1859–1936)
Feng Guozhang
Chinese general (1859-1919)
Samuel Alexander
Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)
Fanny Bullock Workman
American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (1859–1925)
Otto Hölder
German mathematician (1859–1937)
Alfred Hettner
German geomorphologist (1859–1941)
Natalie of Serbia
Serbian queen (1859–1941)
Childe Hassam
American painter (1859-1935)
Sen Katayama
Japanese journalist (1859–1933)
Théophile Steinlen
painter (1859-1923)
Nathaniel Lord Britton
American botanist and geologist (1859-1934)
Florian Cajori
American mathematician (1859–1930)