1859 deaths

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)

American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)

Austrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor (1773–1859)

British historian and politician (1800–1859)

German mathematician (1805–1859)

John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.

King of Sweden and Norway between 1844–1859 (1799–1859)

British author (1785-1859)

German writer and novelist (1785-1859)

German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)

German geographer (1779-1859)

British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)

French priest and saint (1786–1859)

Polish poet (1812–1859)

Russian writer

King of the Two sicilies

British Prime Minister, politician (1782-1859)

Austrian general (1801-1859)

American politician (1796-1859)

French poet and novelist

British railway engineer and locomotive designer (1803-1859)

German composer, violinist and conductor

British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)

French mathematician and physicist (1777-1859)

Swedish cleric and botanist (1785–1859)

Russian Grand Duchess

legal philosopher; (1790-1859)

member of the Austrian dynasty; imperial regent of the German Empire (1848 to 1849)

Japanese politician (1830-1859)

Queen Consort of Portugal (1858-1859) (b.1837–d.1859)

Indian rebel (1824–1859)

American astronomer (1789–1859)

U.S. naturalist and physician (1773-1859)

American historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)

American inventor (1807–1859)

Governor of Bombay, Scottish historian (1779-1859)

British food writer and poet (1799–1859)

English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859)

Sultan of Morocco from 1822 to 1859

Libyan scholar

leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Russian writer and journalist (1789–1859)

Spanish painter (1781-1859)

American politician (1798-1859)

Swiss mathematician (1801–1859)

Irish novelist (1781? – 1859)

former United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Treasury (1780-1859)

French mathematician

German publisher, bookseller and traveller (1801-1859)

Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany

American mechanic and inventor (1796–1859)

Swiss botanist (1818–1859)

President of Bolivia (1795-1859)

English historian (1777-1859)

French writer of the Romantic movement (1809-1859)

French archaeologist (1802–1859)

British inventor (1781-1859)

English landscape painter, 1783-1859 (1783–1859)

British artist and naturalist (1776-1859)