American Express is founded by Henry Wells & Williams Fargo (Mar 19), Los Angeles and San Francisco are incorporated as cities (Apr 4&15), the transportation of British convicts to Western Australia begins (Jun 1), the Danish Stag Holocaust takes place (Jul 2), Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire (Nov 29), tens of thousands of East Indian laborers are shipped to Trinidad and Jamaica until 1880, the Great Famine in Ireland goes on - and all these fine people were born:

1850-xxx Emily J. Harding* artist/ illustrator/suffragette - Bristol, England (1940/c.90) 1850-0101 John Barclay Armstrong* Texas Ranger/United States Marshal - McMinnville, TN USA (1913/63) 1850-0103 August Kuokkanen* schoolteacher/ editor/translator - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1907/57) 1850-0106 Eduard Bernstein* German Marxist theorist/politician - Schöneberg (1932/82) 1850-0106 Xaver Scharwenka* Polish-German pianist/composer/teacher - Samter, Prussia (1924/74) 1850-0110 John Wellborn Root* architect - Lumpkin, GA USA (1891/41) 1850-0112 Anton Valtavuo* (b Rikström) schoolteacher/ publisher of songbooks - Pernaja, GD of Finland (1931/81) 1850-0114 Pierre Loti* (b Louis Marie-Julien Viaud) naval officer/novelist - Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Kingdom of France (1923/73) 1850-0115 Sofya Kovalevskaya* mathematician - Moscow, Russian Empire (1891/41) 1850-0117 Anton Oskar Forsman* schoolteacher/ translator - Pihlajavesi, GD of Finland (1914/64) 1850-0118 Seth Low* educator/political figure/Mayor of Brooklyn and New York City - Brooklyn, NY USA (1916/66) 1850-0124 Hermann Ebbinghaus* psychologist /pioneer of the experimental study of memory - Barmen, Kingdom of Prussia (1909/59) 1850-0124 Mary Noailles Murfree* novelist/with male pen name - near Murfreesboro, TN USA  (1922/72) 1850-0127 Edward Smith* the captain of RMS Titanic - Hanley, Staffordshire, England (1912/62) 1850-0129 Lawrence Hargrave* British-Australian engineer/explorer/aeronautical pioneer/to Australia at age 15 - Greenwich, England (1915/64) 1850-0129 Ebenezer Howard* urban planner/founder of the garden city movement - London, England (1928/78) 1850-0201 1850-0204 Eva Ljungberg* author/ editor/philanthropist - Rauma, GD of Finland (1919/69) 1850-02 1850-0207 Karl Forsström* sea captain/founder of the Finnish limestone industry - Särkisalo, GD of Finland (1912/62) 1850-0208 Kate Chopin* (b O’Flaherty) writer - St. Louis, MO USA (1904/54) 1850-0208 Samuli Suomalainen* Finnish teacher/journalist/writer - St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (1907/57) 1850-0210 Alexander von Linsingen* German general during World War I - Hildesheim, Kingdom of Hanover (1935/85) 1850-0212 William Morris Davis* geographer/meteorologist/the “father of American geography” - Philadelphia, PA USA (1934/84) 1850-0215 Sophie Bryant* mathematician/ feminist/ activist - Dublin, Ireland (1922/72) 1850-0217 Georg Theodor August Gaffky* German bacteriologist (typhoid) - Hanover (1918/68) 1850-0218 George Henschel* German-British singer/pianist/composer - Breslau, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (1934/84) 1850-0220 1850-0222 Isaac Rice* German-American lawyer/businessman/chess patron/to U.S. at age 6 - Wachenheim, Bavaria (1915/65) 1850-0222 Fyodor Vasilyev* Russian landscape painter - Gatchina, Russian Empire (1873/23) 1850-0223 César Ritz* hotelier/founder of the Hôtel Ritz in Paris, a.o. - Niederwald, Switzerland (1918/68) 1850-0225 Jonas Castrén* lawyer/ politician - Pyhäjärvi, GD of Finland (1922/72) 1850-0227 Henry E. Huntington* railroad magnate/collector of art and rare books - Oneonta, NY USA (1927/77) 1850-0228 1850-0301 1850-0303 Henry Henshaw* ornithologist/ ethnologist - Cambridgeport, MA USA (1930/80) 1850-0306 Sagen Ishizuka* 石塚 左玄 physician/ dietitian - Japan (1909/59) 1850-0307 Tomáš Masaryk* Czech politician/the first president of Czechoslovakia - Hodonín, Moravia, Austrian Empire (1937/87) 1850-0307 Theodor Wegelius* banker/ senator - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1932/82) 1850-0310 Spencer Gore* tennis player - Wimbledon, Surrey, England (1906/56) 1850-0314 Johan Ludvig Snellman* lawyer/ civil servant/son of J.V. Snellman - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1909/59) 1850-0318 Oliver Heaviside* self-taught mathematician/physicist - Camden Town, Middlesex, England (1925/74) 1850-0319 Joseph Whitaker* Sicilian-English ornithologist /archaeologist - Palermo, Kingdom of Italy (1936/86) 1850-0320 1850-0326 Edward Bellamy* journalist/ author/political activist - Chicopee, MA USA (1898/48) 1850-0331 Charles Doolittle Walcott* paleontologist/geologist - New York Mills, NY USA (1927/76) 1850-0401 Hans von Pechmann* German chemist - Nuremberg (1902/52) 1850-0402 Thomas Littledale* sailor/OS - Liverpool, England (1938/88) 1850-0410 Fanny Davenport* British-American actress/to U.S. at age 4 - London, England (1898/48) 1850-0410 Mary Emilie Holmes* geologist/ educator - Chester, OH USA (1906/55) 1850-0413 Arthur Matthew Weld Downing* mathematician/ astronomer - Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland (1917/67) 1850-0418 Jo Labadie* labor organizer/publisher/poet - Paw Paw, MI USA (1933/83) 1850-0420 Daniel Chester French* sculptor (Statue of Abraham Lincoln) - Exeter, NH USA (1931/81) 1850-0423 Agda Montelius* philanthropist/feminist - Köping, Sweden (1920/70) 1850-0426 Harry Bates* sculptor - Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England (1899/48) 1850-0428 Odo Reuter* zoologist/coined the term parasitoid/poet - Turku, GD of Finland (1913/63) 1850-0501 Prince Arthur* son of Queen Victoria/ Governor General of Canada - Buckingham Palace, London, England (1942/91) 1850-0503 Johnny Ringo* cowboy/Old West outlaw - Greens Fork, IN USA (1882/32) 1850-0505 Johan van Hasselt* engineer - Sneek, Netherlands (1917/66) 1850-0507 Anton Seidl* pianist/ conductor - Pest, Austria-Hungary (1898/47) 1850-0512 Henry Cabot Lodge* politician/ statesman/historian - Beverly, MA USA (1924/74) 1850-0513 Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky* dramatist/ opera librettist/brother of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Alapayevsk, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire (1916/65) 1850-0518 Kaarle Werkko* (b Wickström) educator/founder of the Finnish summer camp program - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1926/75) 1850-0521 Gustav Lindenthal* civil engineer (Hell Gate Bridge) - Brno, Austrian Empire (1935/85) 1850-0521 Giuseppe Mercalli* Catholic priest/volcanologist - Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (1914/63) 1850-0526 Amélie Lundahl* painter - Oulu, GD of Finland (1914/64) 1850-0527 Thomas Neill Cream* Scottish-Canadian physician/serial killer - Glasgow, Scotland (1892/42) 1850-0528 Frederic William Maitland* lawyer/ historian - London, England (1906/56) 1850-0531 1850-0602 Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer* physiologist/regarded as a founder of endocrinology/coined the term endocrine and the word insulin - Hornsey, Middlesex, England (1935/84) 1850-0605 Pat Garrett* cowboy/sheriff/customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid - Chambers County, AL USA (1908/57) 1850-0606 Karl Ferdinand Braun* physicist/ inventor/N - Fulda, Electorate of Hessen, Germany (1918/67) 1850-0612 Carl Skånberg* painter - Norrköping, Sweden (1883/22) 1850-0615 Charles Hazelius Sternberg* paleontologist/fossil collector - New York, NY USA (1943/93) 1850-0621 Daniel Carter Beard* illustrator/author/youth leader - Cincinnati, OH USA (1941/90) 1850-0621 Teppo Jänis* kantele player - Uuksujärvi, GD of Finland (1921/71) 1850-0622 Frants Henningsen* painter/ illustrator - Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1908/57) 1850-0624 Herbert Kitchener* army officer/colonial administrator - Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland (1916/65) 1850-0627 Lafcadio Hearn* a.k.a. Koizumi Yakumo 小泉 八雲 Greco-Japanese author - Lefkada, United States of the Ionian Islands (1904/54) 1850-0701 Florence Van Leer Earle Coates* poet - Philadelphia, PA USA (1927/76) 1850-0702 Robert Ridgway* ornithologist - Mount Carmel, IL USA (1929/78) 1850-0711 Annie Armstrong* missionary leader - Baltimore, MD USA (1938/88) 1850-0715 Frances Xavier Cabrini* Italian-American Roman Catholic canonized nun - Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire (1917/67) 1850-0718 Rose Hartwick Thorpe* poet/writer - Mishawaka, IN USA (1939/89) 1850-0720 Gustav Paulig* German-Finnish businessman/founder of the coffee roastery Paulig (1876)to Finland at age 20 - Lübeck, German Confederation (1907/56) 1850-0720 R. J. Reynolds* businessman/founder of a tobacco company (1874) - Patrick County, VA USA (1918/68) 1850-0731 Robert Planquette* composer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1903/52) 1850-0801 1850-0805 Guy de Maupassant* writer - Tourville-sur-Arques, Kingdom of France (1893/42) 1850-0810 Ella M. S. Marble* (b Smith) educator/ physician/activist - Gorham, ME USA (1929/79) 1850-0817 Siri von Essen* nobleman/ actress - Porvoo, GD of Finland (1912/61) 1850-0825 Charles Richet* physiologist/ immunologist/N - Paris, Kingdom of France (1935/85) 1850-0830 Marcelo H. del Pilar* Filipino journalist/ writer - Bulakan, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire (1896/45) 1850-0902 Eugene Field* writer/known as the “poet of childhood” - St. Louis, MO USA (1895/45) 1850-0905 Eugen Goldstein* physicist - Gleiwitz, Silesia, German Confederation (1930/80) 1850-0910 1850-0923 Richard Hertwig* German zoologist - Friedberg, Hesse (1937/87) 1850-0927 Walter Stanley Haines* chemist/ toxicologist - Chicago, IL USA (1923/72) 1850-0930 Louise af Forselles* (b Etholén) philanthropist - GD of Finland (1934/83) 1850-1001 Adolf Schirmer* Norwegian architect - Christiania, Sweden-Norway (1930/79) 1850-1007 Fredrik Runeberg* physician/ photographer /son of J. L. Runeberg - Porvoo, GD of Finland (1884/33) 1850-1008 Henry Louis Le Chatelier* chemist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1936/85) 1850-1009 Hermann von Ihering* German-Brazilian zoologist/to Brazil at age 30 - Kiel, Duchy of Holstein (1930/79) 1850-1017 **Thomas Jeffery Parke**r* zoologist/active in New Zealand - London, England (1897/47) 1850-1022 Heinrich von Zügel* German painter - Murrhardt (1941/90) 1850-1101 1850-1105 Ella Wheeler Wilcox* author/ poet - Johnstown, WI USA (1919/68) 1850-1107 William Miller Beardshear* pastor/the “father of Iowa State College” - near Dayton, OH USA (1902/51) 1850-1113 Anna Krook*  schoolrteacher/writer of school books/translator - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1926/75) 1850-1113 Robert Louis Stevenson* novelist/travel writer - Edinburgh, Scotland (1894/44) 1850-1115 Victor Laloux* architect/ teacher - Tours, Kingdom of France (1937/86) 1850-1130 1850-1201 1850-1204 Georg Öhman* physician/town physician of Loviisa - Porvoo, GD of  Finland (1897/46) 1850-1213 Iver Holter* composer/ conductor - Gausdal, Sweden-Norway (1941/90) 1850-1219 Friedrich Lüthi* Swiss sports shooter/OGt - Swiss (1913/62) 1850-1221 William Wallace Lincoln* 3rd son of Abraham Lincoln - Springfield, IL USA (1862/11) 1850-1222 Otto Collin* schoolteacher/ amateur scientist - Hämeenlinna, GD of Finland (1924/73) 1850-1229 Tomás Breton* Spanish composer/conductor - Salamanca (1923/72) 1850-1231 Updated 30.11.2022-5 Search for another year here