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1859
1859 is a common year starting on Saturday.
Events
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March 26 - French amateur astronomer claims to have noticed a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury - later named Vulcan
Unknown Dates
Births
January-June
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January 11 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (d. 1925)
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January 13 - Karl Bleibtreu , critic (d. 1928)
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January 27 - Wilhelm II of Germany, last German Emperor and Prussian king (d. 1941)
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February 1 - Victor Herbert, composer (d. 1924)
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February 3 - Hugo Junkers, industrialist and aircraft designer (d. 1935)
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February 6 - Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney (d. 1941)
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February 14 - Henry Valentine Knaggs, English physician and author (d. 1954)
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February 18 - Sholom Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish writer (d. 1916)
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February 28 - Florian Cajori, Swiss historian of mathematics (d. 1930)
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March 2 - Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish novelist (d. 1916)
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March 8 - Kenneth Grahame, author (d. 1932)
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March 26 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
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May 15 - Pierre Curie, French physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 (d. 1906)
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May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (d. 1930)
July-December
Deaths
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April 16 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
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May 6 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer (b. 1769)
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August 2 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
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September 15 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
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October 4 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (b. 1801)
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October 22 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
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November 28 - Washington Irving, American author (b. 1783)
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December 2 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800)
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December 8 - Thomas de Quincey, English writer (b. 1785)
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December 16 - Wilhelm Grimm, German writer (b. 1786)
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Abd ar-Rahman, sultan of Morocco
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