1850s births

The list 1850s births includes Ada Rehan, Sarah E. Goode, Tom O'Folliard, Zip the Pinhead and Lucy Parsons. The list consists of 827 members and 11 sublists.

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1850s

Decade of the Gregorian calendar

1.

Mbandzeni

King of Swaziland

Overview: Mbandzeni (also known as Dlamini IV, Umbandine, Umbandeen) (1855–1889) was the King of Swaziland from 1875 until 1889. Ingwenyama Mbandzeni was the son of Mswati II and Nandzi Nkambule. His mother the ...

Date of birth: 1855

Date of death: 7 October 1889

Age: 34 (age at death)

Nationality: Swazi

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

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Swazi monarchs 12T

19th-century monarchs in Africa 111T

19th-century African people 138T
2.

Elsie de Wolfe

American, Designer

Overview: Elsie de Wolfe, also known as Lady Mendl, (December 20, c. 1859 – July 12, 1950) was an American actress and interior decorator.

Date of birth: 20 December 1865

Date of death: 13 July 1950

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Female

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American bisexual actresses 176T

American bisexual artists 44T

Bisexual women artists 45T
3.

Labotsibeni Mdluli

Swazi royal regent

Overview: Labotsibeni Mdluli, also known as Gwamile (c. 1859 – 15 December 1925), was the Queen Mother and Queen Regent of Swaziland.

Date of birth: 1859

Date of death: 1 December 1925

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Swazi

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

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Female regents in Africa 18T

African queen mothers 21T

Queens regnant in Africa 37T
4.

Ludvonga

Crown Prince of Swaziland

Overview: Ludvonga II (c. 1855 - 1872) was the Crown Prince of Swaziland, son of Mswati II of Swaziland. His mother's clan was Khumalo. As a result of internal power struggles within the royal family, he was poisoned ...

Date of birth: 1855

Date of death: 1874

Age: 18 (age at death)

Nationality: Swazi

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Swazi royalty 22T

Heirs apparent who never acceded 535T

Murdered royalty 118T
5.

Ada Rehan

American actor

Overview: Ada Rehan (April 22, c. 1857 – January 8, 1916) was an American actress and comedian who typified the "personality" style of acting in the nineteenth century.

Date of birth: 22 April 1859

Date of death: 9 January 1916

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Performance Artist

Gender: Female

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A Woman of the Century 883T

American Theater Hall of Fame inductees 561T

19th-century Irish actresses 15T
6.

Mary Cornwallis-West

Mistress of King Edward VII

Overview: Mary Adelaide Virginia Thomasina Eupatoria "Patsy" Cornwallis-West (née FitzPatrick; 1856 - 21 July 1920) was an Irish born aristocrat and a prominent mistress of the future King Edward VII.

Date of birth: 1856

Date of death: 21 July 1920

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Mistresses of Edward VII 12T

FitzPatrick dynasty 44T

West family 52T
7.

May Brookyn

American actress

Overview: May Brookyn (?1854/59 - February 15, 1894) was an English born American stage actress. Her name was spelled Brookyn but is often misspelled Brooklyn. On February 15, 1894 she died by suicide by taking ...

Date of birth: 1854

Date of death: 15 February 1894

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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1890s suicides 85T

English actresses who committed suicide 18T

American actresses who committed suicide 77T
8.

Kitty Leroy

American saloon owner

Overview: Kitty Leroy (1850 – December 6, 1877) was a dancer, gambler, saloon owner, prostitute, madam, and trick shooter of the American Old West.

Date of birth: 1850

Date of death: 7 December 1877

Age: 27 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

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Murder–suicides in South Dakota 1T

History of women in South Dakota 3T

1877 murders in the United States 5T
9.

Sarah E. Goode

American inventor (1855–1905)

Overview: Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855 – April 8, 1905) was an entrepreneur and inventor. She was the first African-American woman to receive a United States patent, which she received in 1885. The first African ...

Date of birth: 1855

Date of death: 8 April 1905

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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19th-century American inventors 564T

Women inventors 259T

African-American inventors 88T
10.

Tom O'Folliard

American outlaw

Overview: Tom O'Folliard (c. 1858 – December 19, 1880) was the best friend of outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid. Both were members of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War. After the war ended ...

Date of birth: 1858

Date of death: 19 December 1880

Age: 22 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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People from Uvalde, Texas 24T

Lincoln County Wars 41T

People of the New Mexico Territory 56T
11.

Zip the Pinhead

Freak show performer

Overview: Zip the Pinhead, real name William Henry Johnson (ca. 1842 in Liberty Corner, New Jersey – April 9, 1926 in New York City, New York), was an American freak show performer famous for his tapered head.

Date of birth: 1842

Date of death: 9 April 1926

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Entertainer

Gender: Male

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People with microcephaly 5T

Microcephaly 3T

People from Bernards Township, New Jersey 24T
12.

Lucy Parsons

American communist anarchist labor organizer

Overview: Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons (born Lucia Carter; 1851 – March 7, 1942) was an American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarcho-communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator. Parsons entered ...

Date of birth: 7 March 1942

Date of death: 7 March 1942

Age: 0 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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American anti-capitalists 93T

Activists from Chicago 43T

African-American anarchists 8T
13.

Josephine Silone Yates

American chemist

Overview: Josephine Silone Yates (1852 or November 15, 1859 – September 3, 1912), trained in chemistry, was one of the first black professors hired at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, and, upon ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1859

Date of death: 3 September 1912

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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19th-century American women scientists 75T

19th-century women educators 236T

Chemists from Missouri 33T
14.

Davy Crockett (outlaw)

American murderer

Overview: Davy Crockett (c.1853 - September 30, 1876) was an American outlaw and a relative of the famed frontiersman Davy Crockett.

Date of birth: 1863

Date of death: 30 September 1876

Age: 13 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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Formerly wanted fugitives 150T

People from Colfax County, New Mexico 28T

1876 deaths 1,311T
15.

Yellow Wolf

Nez Perce warrior

Overview: Yellow Wolf or He–Mene Mox Mox (born c. 1855, died August 1935) was a Nez Perce warrior who fought in the Nez Perce War of 1877. In his old age, he decided to give the war a Native American perspective ...

Date of death: 21 August 1935

Nationality: American

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Nez Perce people 19T

Native American history of Oregon 26T

Nez Perce War 29T
16.

Besarion Jughashvili

Father of Joseph Stalin

Overview: Besarion Vanovis Jughashvili (Georgian: ბესარიონ ჯუღაშვილი; Russian: Виссарион Иванович Джугашвили) (1849 or 1850 – 25 August 1909) was Joseph Stalin's father. He often went by the nickname "Beso". He ...

Date of death: 25 August 1909

Nationality: Georgian

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Tuberculosis deaths in Georgia (country) 8T

20th-century deaths from tuberculosis 669T

People from Tiflis Governorate 76T
17.

Ketevan Geladze

Mother of Joseph Stalin

Overview: Ekaterine Giorgis asuli Geladze (1856/1858 – 4 June 1937), commonly known as "Keke", was the mother of Joseph Stalin.

Date of birth: 5 February 1858

Date of death: 4 June 1937

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Georgian

Occupation: Memoirist

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Burials at Mtatsminda Pantheon 43T

Members of the Georgian Orthodox Church 12T

Women memoirists 1,131T
18.

U Dhammaloka

Irish-born Buddhist monk of the Asian Buddhist revival

Overview: U Dhammaloka (Burmese: ဦးဓမ္မလောက; c. 1856 – c. 1914) was an Irish-born migrant worker turned Buddhist monk, atheist critic of Christian missionaries, and temperance campaigner who took an active role ...

Date of birth: 1856

Date of death: 1914

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: Burmese

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

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History of Buddhism in Myanmar 2T

Nationalist movements of Myanmar 4T

Converts to Buddhism from Roman Catholicism 19T
19.

Habte Giyorgis

Ethiopian politician

Overview: Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis Dinagde (Amharic: ሀብተጊዮርጊስ ዲነግዴ?; 1851 – 12 December 1926) was an Ethiopian military commander and government official, who, among several other posts, served as President of the ...

Date of birth: 1851

Date of death: 1927

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Ethiopian

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People from Gurage Zone 1T

Defence ministers of Ethiopia 10T

Foreign ministers of Ethiopia 22T
20.

Emma Roberto Steiner

American conductor

Overview: Emma Roberto Steiner (1856 – February 27, 1929) was an American composer and conductor. She was one of the first women in the United States to make a living from conducting, and did so at more than ...

Date of birth: 1852

Date of death: 27 February 1929

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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19th-century women composers 341T

20th-century women composers 1,221T

20th-century American women musicians 816T