Birth year 1859 celebrities
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Elmore Yocum Sarles (January 15, 1859 – February 14, 1929) was an American politician who was the ninth Governor of North Dakota from 1905 to 1907.Biography Born in Wonewoc, Wisconsin, Sarles was educated in the public schools in Prescott, Wisconsi
Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem “America the Beautiful”. She popularized “Mrs. Santa Claus” through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh
Daisy May Bates, CBE (16 October 1859 – 18 April 1951) was an Irish Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. She was known among the native people as ‘Kabbarli’ (i.e. /kaparli/, a kin
Elias Charles Disney (February 6, 1859 – September 13, 1941) was the father of Roy Disney and Walt Disney. His death at age 82 occurred when Walt was age 39.
Filip Shiroka (1859–1935) was a classical Rilindja (Albanian: Renaissance) poet whose verse was first to become known in later years.
Alfred Dreyfus ( ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French history. Known today as t
Van Dyke Brooke, né Stewart McKerrow (22 June 1859–17 September 1921, age 62) was an early American actor, screenwriter and film director, whose works include The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln (1908) and Lights of New York (1
John A. “Cub” Stricker, born John A. Streaker (June 8, 1859 – November 19, 1937), was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for seven different teams during his 11-season career, the bulk of his playing time being with the
Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was an American women’s suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president o
William L. Abingdon (1859–1918) was a British stage actor who settled in the United States. As well as enjoying a lengthy theatre career, he also appeared in four silent films during the 1910s.
Michael Francis Welch (July 4, 1859 – July 30, 1941), nicknamed “Smiling Mickey”, was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the third pitcher to accumulate 300 career victories. Welch was born in Brooklyn, New York, and played 13 seasons in the m