* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.

* 1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.

* 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer ( d. 1859 )

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )

* 1859 – The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

* 1859 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet ( d. 1929 )

* Alexander John Cuza, prince of Romania ( 1859 – 1866 )

* 1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.

* 1859 – Matilda Howell, American archer ( d. 1938 )

* 1859 – Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer ( d. 1943 )

* 1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto ( b. 1859 )

* 1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1952 )

* 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.

* 1944 – William Stephens, American politician ( b. 1859 )

* 1803 – James Curtiss, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( d. 1859 )

* 1943 – Alexandre Millerand, French politician, President of France ( b. 1859 )

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

The Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister 1855 – 58, 1859 – 65

** Walter Camp, American football coach ( b. 1859 )

Other notable stage performances of Henry V include Charles Kean ( 1859 ), Charles Alexander Calvert ( 1872 ), Walter Hampden ( 1928 ), and Ty Jones ( 2011 ) in an all black cast.

Sherman as College President, edited by Walter L. Fleming ( Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1912 ) – edited letters and other documents from Sherman's 1859 – 1861 service as superintendent of the Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy.

Walter Chauncey Camp ( April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925 ) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the " Father of Football ".

* Walter Cook, Indian Mutiny Sissaya Ghat, 15th January 1859

* Walter Longley Bourke, 8th Earl of Mayo ( 1859 – 1939 )

* Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley ( 1859 – 1927 )

Among the former, his dog story, Rab and his Friends ( 1859 ), and his essays Pet Marjorie ( 1863 )— on Marjorie Fleming, the ten year old prodigy and " pet " of Walter Scott, Our Dogs, Minchmoor, and The Enterkine are especially notable.

Charles and Hannah had 13 children: Charles ( 1838 – 1903 ), Frederick ( 1839 – 1905, married Anne Jane Sutcliffe ), Elizabeth ( 1840 – 1912, married Thomas Boyes ), Henry ( 1842 – 1866 ), Ellen ( 1844 – 1845 ), Edward ( 1845 – 1845 ), Walter ( 1846 – 1911 ), Thirza Ann ( 1849 – 1929, married Robert William Skilton ), Edmund ( 1851 – 1923, married Annie Morris ), Emily ( 1853 – 1923 ), Jessie ( 1855 – 1904 ), Arthur William ( 1857 – 1946, married Eliza Jane Wilson ), and Horace ( 1859 – 1867 ).

She married William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith on Tuesday 22 November 1859 in London.

He was 34 years old and a private in the 42nd Regiment, ( later The Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 15 January 1859 at Maylah Ghat, British India for which he and Private Walter Cook were awarded the VC:

Under its first resident superintendent, Walter E. Fernald ( 1859 – 1924 ), an advocate of eugenics, the school was viewed as a model educational facility in the field of mental retardation.

Walter Friedrich Wislicenus ( November 5, 1859 – October 3, 1905 ) was a German astronomer.

Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley DL, JP ( 13 March 1859 – 10 April 1927 ), styled The Honourable Ivo Bligh until 1900, was a British cricketer who captained the English team in the first ever Test series against Australia with the Ashes at stake in 1882 / 83.

* Walter Osborne ( 1859 – 1903 ) In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade c. 1895

Walter Aubrey Thomas ( 1859 – 13 September, 1934 ), was a British architect.

Walter Aubrey Thomas was born in 1859 at Tranmere, Birkenhead.

* Scott, Walter Sidney, Green retreats ; the story of Vauxhall Gardens, 1661 – 1859.

In February 1859 one of the Observatory assistants, John Walter Osborne ( 1828-1902 ), transferred from the observatory to become a photolithographer in the Survey Department of the Office of Crown Lands and Survey.

* A painting by Walter Osborne ( 1859 – 1903 ) of a cherry seller in Ulster also used the title.

His first exhibits at the Royal Scottish Academy were A Scene from the Fortunes of Nigel, one of the many subjects for which he sought inspiration in the novels of Sir Walter Scott, and two portraits in 1858, followed in 1859 by The Prison.

Sir Charles Santley ( born 1834 ), Gustav Walter ( born 1834 ), Adelina Patti ( born 1843 ), Marianne Brandt ( born 1842 ), Lilli Lehmann ( born 1848 ), Jean Lassalle ( born 1847 ), Victor Maurel ( born 1848 ), Marcella Sembrich ( born 1858 ), Lillian Nordica ( born 1857 ), Emma Calvé ( born 1858 ), Nellie Melba ( born 1861 ), Francesco Tamagno ( born 1850 ), Francesco Marconi ( born 1853 ), Léon Escalais ( born 1859 ), Mattia Battistini ( born 1856 ), Mario Ancona ( born 1860 ), Pol Plançon ( born 1851 ), and Antonio Magini-Coletti and Francesco Navarini ( both born 1855 ).

Proust's letters to Walter Van Rensselaer Berry ( 1859 – 1927 ).