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Born in 1855

363 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Robert Allen Rolfe

    botanist

    1855–1921 · aged 65

    May 12 · 1855

    Source: Nature

  2. Nellie Martel

    suffragette, politician

    1855–1940 · aged 84

    September 30 · 1855

    Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography

  3. John McConnell Black

    scientific collector, explorer

    1855–1951 · aged 96

    April 28 · 1855

    Source: SNAC

  4. Ada Adini

    stage actor, singer

    1855–1924 · aged 68

    March 1 · 1855

    Source: Dezède

  5. Vera Timanova

    pianist

    1855–1942 · aged 87

    February 18 · 1855

    Source: Q27772052

  6. Julian Edwards

    composer

    1855–1910 · aged 54

    December 11 · 1855

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  7. Pierre Puiseux

    astrophysicist, mountaineer

    1855–1928 · aged 73

    July 20 · 1855

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  8. Jean Cruppi

    politician, lawyer

    1855–1933 · aged 78

    May 22 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  9. Emilio Estrada Carmona

    banker, politician

    1855–1911 · aged 56

    May 28 · 1855

    No external source identified

  10. Bertha Schwarz*

    opera singer

    Date disputed

    June 27 · 1855

    Source: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

  11. Carl Joseph Schröter

    botanical collector, biologist

    1855–1939 · aged 83

    December 19 · 1855

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  12. Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén

    mechanical engineer, botanical collector

    1855–1926 · aged 70

    August 4 · 1855

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  13. Anna Galvis Hotz

    gynecologist

    1855–1934 · aged 79

    June 22 · 1855

    No external source identified

  14. Hans Jacob Hansen

    carcinologist, zoological collector

    1855–1936 · aged 80

    August 10 · 1855

    Source: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World

  15. Eva Topelius

    painter

    1855–1929

    September 4 · 1855

    Source: Register of the Artists' Association of Finland

  16. Emmanuel Drake del Castillo

    botanist, university teacher

    1855–1904 · aged 48

    December 28 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  17. Thecla Åhlander

    actor

    1855–1925 · aged 69

    June 3 · 1855

    Source: Sveriges dödbok 1815–2022

  18. Walter Buchanan

    association football player

    1855–1926 · aged 71

    June 1 · 1855

    No external source identified

  19. Mikhail Menzbier

    zoological collector, ornithologist

    1855–1935 · aged 79

    November 4 · 1855

    Source: In memory of Academician Mikhail Menzbir

  20. Hermann Julius Kolbe

    coleopterist, editor

    1855–1939 · aged 84

    June 2 · 1855

    Source: SNAC

  21. Antonia de Bañuelos Thorndike

    painter

    1855–1921

    July 17 · 1855

    No external source identified

  22. Adrienne Avril de Sainte-Croix

    essayist, editor

    1855–1939 · aged 84

    February 10 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  23. John Muirhead Macfarlane

    botanist, writer

    1855–1943 · aged 87

    September 28 · 1855

    No external source identified

  24. Clara Eaton Cummings

    scientific collector, mycologist

    1855–1906 · aged 51

    July 13 · 1855

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

  25. Þorvaldur Thoroddsen

    geographer, cartographer

    1855–1921 · aged 66

    June 6 · 1855

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  26. Ferdinand Hummel

    conductor, pianist

    1855–1928 · aged 72

    September 6 · 1855

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  27. Arnold Lang

    anatomist, university teacher

    1855–1914 · aged 59

    June 18 · 1855

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  28. Heinrich Grünfeld*

    conductor, cellist

    Date disputed

    April 21 · 1855

    Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi

  29. Eduard Robert Flegel

    explorer

    1855–1886 · aged 30

    October 13 · 1855

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  30. Petrus Johannes Blok

    librarian, historian

    1855–1929 · aged 74

    January 10 · 1855

    Source: KNAW Past Members

  31. Caspar Decurtins

    politician, university teacher

    1855–1916 · aged 60

    November 23 · 1855

    Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

  32. Alfred John North

    ornithologist

    1855–1917 · aged 61

    June 11 · 1855

    Source: SNAC

  33. Hugo Conwentz

    university teacher, non-fiction writer

    1855–1922 · aged 67

    January 20 · 1855

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  34. Lev Lopatin

    philosopher

    1855–1920 · aged 64

    June 13 · 1855

    Source: Pedagogues and Psychologists of the World

  35. Paul Wiesner*

    skipper

    Date disputed

    October 9 · 1855

    No external source identified

  36. Théophile Alexis Durand

    botanical collector, botanist

    1855–1912 · aged 56

    September 4 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  37. August Sauer

    literary historian, university teacher

    1855–1926 · aged 70

    October 12 · 1855

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  38. Arcangelo Ghisleri

    politician, secondary school teacher

    1855–1938 · aged 82

    September 5 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  39. Hans Geitel

    university teacher, physicist

    1855–1923 · aged 68

    July 16 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  40. Georg Volkens

    botanist, colonial administrator

    1855–1917 · aged 61

    July 13 · 1855

    No external source identified

  41. Katharina Klafsky

    opera singer

    1855–1896 · aged 41

    September 19 · 1855

    Source: FemBio database

  42. Adolf Frey

    philologist, narrator

    1855–1920 · aged 64

    February 18 · 1855

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  43. Anna Pavlyk

    writer

    1855–1928 · aged 73

    January 26 · 1855

    No external source identified

  44. Giorgio Gusmini

    archbishop, Catholic priest

    1855–1921 · aged 65

    December 9 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  45. Franz Muncker

    university teacher, philologist

    1855–1926 · aged 70

    December 4 · 1855

    Source: Geni

  46. Charlotte Norrie

    women's rights activist, nurse

    1855–1940 · aged 85

    October 12 · 1855

    No external source identified

  47. Louis Maxson

    archer

    1855–1916 · aged 61

    July 2 · 1855

    Source: Olympedia

  48. Theodoric Valeton

    explorer, botanist

    1855–1929

    1855

    Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library

  49. Hilma Angered Strandberg

    writer

    1855–1927 · aged 71

    June 10 · 1855

    Source: ArkivDigital online

  50. Paul Durrieu

    bibliophile, medievalist

    1855–1925 · aged 70

    October 2 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  51. Friedrich Bechtel

    linguist, university teacher

    1855–1924 · aged 69

    February 2 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Eugen von Daday

    zoologist, writer

    1855–1920 · aged 64

    May 24 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  53. Aeba Koson

    literary critic, novelist

    1855–1922 · aged 66

    September 25 · 1855

    No external source identified

  54. Théophile Cart

    secondary school teacher, linguist

    1855–1931 · aged 76

    March 31 · 1855

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Bror Brenner

    sailor, skipper

    1855–1923 · aged 67

    July 17 · 1855

    No external source identified

  56. Arthur Humble Evans

    botanist, ornithologist

    1855–1943 · aged 88

    February 23 · 1855

    Source: Biographical Database of Southern African Science

  57. Léon Lécuyer

    sport shooter, fencer

    1855–1915 · aged 60

    April 8 · 1855

    Source: Roglo

  58. Amélia Cardia dos Santos Costa

    writer, physician

    1855–1938 · aged 82

    November 1 · 1855

    No external source identified

  59. Henri Mialaret

    sailor

    1855–1919 · aged 63

    August 2 · 1855

    Source: birth certificate

  60. Maria Sadovska-Barilotti

    stage actor, opera singer

    1855–1891 · aged 35

    April 17 · 1855

    No external source identified

  61. Tsug Teutšež

    writer, poet

    1855–1940 · aged 84

    August 15 · 1855

    No external source identified

  62. Konni Zilliacus

    journalist, translator

    1855–1924 · aged 68

    December 18 · 1855

    Source: SNAC

  63. Princess Pauline of Waldeck and Pyrmont

    politician

    1855–1925 · aged 69

    October 19 · 1855

    Source: The Peerage

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