Welcome! Check out today's birthdays, recent birthdays, or our birthday stats.
In the year 1856
309 Notable birthdays
Gustaf Nyström
Finnish architect.
Born January 21st, 1856 in Helsinki. [ref]
Died December 30th, 1917 at 61 years old in Helsinki. [ref]
Matsumura Jinzō
Japanese botanist (1856-1928).
Born February 14th, 1856 in Ibaraki Prefecture.
Died May 4th, 1928 at 72 years old in Tokyo.
Léon Wieger
French sinologist (1856-1933).
Born July 9th, 1856 in Strasbourg. [ref]
Died March 25th, 1933 at 76 years old in Xian County. [ref]
Georges Colomb
French botanist and pioneer of french comics (1856-1945).
Born May 25th, 1856 in Lure. [ref]
Died January 3rd, 1945 at 88 years old in Nyons. [ref]
Rosa Welt-Straus
Suffragist and feminist.
Born August 24th, 1856 in Chernivtsi.
Died December 15th, 1938 at 82 years old in Geneva.
José Júlio de Sousa Pinto
Portuguese painter (1856-1939).
Born September 15th, 1856 in Angra do Heroísmo. [ref]
Died April 14th, 1939 at 82 years old in Pont-Scorff.
Eugène Louis Bouvier
French entomologist & carcinologist (1856–1944).
Born April 9th, 1856 in Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux.
Died January 14th, 1944 at 87 years old in Maisons-Laffitte.
Aleksandr Kastalsky
Russian composer and folklorist (1856-1926).
Born November 28th, 1856 in Moscow.
Died December 17th, 1926 at 70 years old in Moscow.
Carl Ewald
Danish novelist (1856–1908).
Born October 15th, 1856 in Gram.
Died February 23rd, 1908 at 51 years old in Copenhagen.
Paul von Jankó
Hungarian musician (1856-1919).
Died March 17th, 1919 at 62 years old in Constantinople.
Birthdays 261 to 270 of 309
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Dr. Seuss