* July 7 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ( Sherlock Holmes ) ( b. 1859 )

* Sir John Young ( 1807 – 1876 ) 1855 – 1859

* Sir Henry Knight Storks ( 1811 – 1874 ) 1859 – 1863

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

* Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet, of Luddenham, in New South Wales ( 1859 ), extinct 1986

His grandson was Lt Col Arthur John Barry CBE, TD, MICE ( 1859 – 1943 ), civil engineer and architect, son of Charles Barry, Jr. and pupil and later partner of Sir John Wolfe-Barry.

In June 1859, a British naval force with 2, 200 troops and 21 ships, under the command of Admiral Sir James Hope, sailed north from Shanghai to Tianjin with newly appointed Anglo-French envoys for the embassies in Beijing.

Sir George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC ( 11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925 ), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary, but who was passed over as Prime Minister in 1923 in favour of Stanley Baldwin.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ), the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories, whose statue stands in the town centre

Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB ( 1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923 ) was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), also known as MI6.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, GCB, KCMG, CVO ( 9 June 1859 – 7 May 1925 ) was a British admiral.

According to Anna Smith in her book " Johannesburg Street Names " ( Juta, 1971 ), Sturdee Avenue in Rosebank, Johannesburg ( South Africa ), is " believed that it commemorates Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee ( 1859 – 1925 ) of World Ward 1 fame.

Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover PC ( 8 November 1802 – 27 April 1867 ), known as Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt, between 1838 and 1859, was a British civil engineer and politician.

Three sons from Stephen's first marriage ( m. Anna Stent at St Leonard, Shoreditch 1783 ) survived him, and achieved prominence in law, abolition and the civil service: Sir James Stephen ( 1789 – 1859 ), Henry John Stephen ( 1787 – 1864 ), and George Stephen ( 1794 – 1879 ).

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson ( 1859 – 1941 ), who commanded XII Corps during World War I, was his uncle.

However, he was not the first former MP to become a Governor of Hong Kong: that was Sir John Bowring ( Governor of Hong Kong 1854 – 1859 ).

His poems were first edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold ( New York, 1844 ); another American edition, by W. A. Whitmore, appeared in 1859 ; an authorized edition with a memoir by Derwent Coleridge appeared in 1864: The Political and Occasional Poems of W. M. Praed ( 1888 ), edited with notes by his nephew, Sir George Young, included many pieces collected from various newspapers and periodicals.

Sir Sidney Lee ( 5 December 1859 – 3 March 1926 ) was an English biographer and critic.

As the monks refused to sell this manuscript, he made a copy of it, which was sold to the British Museum, and was published in 1859 by Sir G Cornewall Lewis.

* Sir Dorabji Tata ( 1859 – 1932 ), Indian philanthropist

* Sir Samuel Thomas Evans ( 1859 – 1918, b. Skewen ), politician and judge ;

Augustus Onslow Manby " Gussie " Gibbes ( 1827-1896 ) had purchased Yarralumla sheep station and its homestead from his brother-in-law, ( Sir ) Terence Aubrey Murray, on 1 July 1859 for approximately ₤ 20, 000.

From June 1859 until August 1896, he was known as Sir Hercules Robinson.

* Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet ( 1781 – 1859 ), his son, traveller and Orientalist

On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

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

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

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

* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859 – 1865

But John Austin ( 1790 – 1859 ), an early positivist, applied utilitarianism in accepting the calculating nature of human beings and the existence of an objective morality.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

* 1859 – John Jellicoe, English admiral ( d. 1935 )

* 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.

* 1859 – John Brown, American abolitionist ( b. 1800 )

* 1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.

The argument and the evidence was further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838, and reasoned from experimental observations by John Tyndall in 1859, and more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.

** John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ( 1859 )

** Harpers Ferry Armory, second federal armory ( construction begun 1799 ) and site of John Brown's slave revolt of 1859

John Brand's Popular Antiquities ( 1859 ) describes a custom in Kent of ' going a hodening ' at Christmas, going round the houses in procession and singing carols, accompanied by a sort of hobby-horse.

* 1952 – John Dewey, American philosopher and theorist ( b. 1859 )

He also started a business partnership with John Ellsler, manager of the Cleveland Academy of Music, and another friend, Thomas Mears, to develop oil wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, where an oil boom had started in August 1859, following Edwin Drake's discovery of oil there.

Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).

John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952 ) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO SGM ( 5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935 ) was a British Royal Navy admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I.

* John Brown ( abolitionist ) ( 1800 – 1859 ), American who led an anti-slavery revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859

* John Walker ( inventor ) ( 1781 – 1859 ), English chemist and inventor of the friction match in 1827