Ottawa is incorporated as a city (Jan 1), Alexander II ascends the Russian throne (Mar 2), Nepalese troops invade Tibet (Apr 3), Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City opens its doors (Jun 5), stamp duty is removed from British newspapers, creating mass media in the United Kingdom (Jun 15), The Daily Telegraph begins publication in London (Jun 29), the Australian Colonies are granted self-governing status by the United Kingdom (Jul 16), the capital of the Crimea, Sebastopol, falls to French and British troops (Sep 9), Van Diemen’s Land is officially renamed Tasmania (Oct 24), the cocaine alkaloid is first isolated - and all these fine people were born:

1855-0105 King Camp Gillette* businessman/inventor of the best selling version of the safety razor - Fond du Lac, WI USA (1932/77) 1855-0120 Ernest Chausson* composer - Paris, France (1899/44) 1855-0123 John Browning* firearms designer - Ogden, Utah Territory (1926/71) 1855-0213 Paul Deschanel* French statesman/P - Schaerbeek, Belgium (1922/67) 1855-0217 Adolf Engström* engineer/ businessman - Vöyri, GD of Finland (1924/69) 1855-0217 Otto Liman von Sanders* Imperial German Army general - Stolp, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (1929/74) 1855-0217 Susanna Sirén** (b Hakoniemi) sister of Mikko H./married twice - Ilmajoki, GD of Finland (1932/77) 1855-0220 1855-0223 Arthur Humble Evans* ornithologist - Scremerston, Northumberland, England (1943/88) 1855-0225 1855-0228 1855-0301 1855-0309 Warren Earp* frontiersman/lawman/the youngest of Earp brothers, Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Newton Earp - Pella, IA USA (1900/45) 1955-0310 1855-0313 Percival Lowell* mathematician/astronomer/ businessman - Boston, MA USA (1916/61) 1855-0320 1855-0325 Grace Carew Sheldon* journalist/ author/businesswoman - Buffalo, NY USA (1921/66) 1855-0331 1855-0409 John Marden* headmaster/pioneer of women’s education - Prahran, VIC Australia (1924/69) 1855-0415 Aatto Suppanen* writer/ editor/translator - Ruskeala, GD of Finland (1898/42) 1855-0430 1855-0501 1855-0505 1855-0509 Julius Röntgen* German-Dutch pianist/ composer - Leipzig (1932/77) 1855-0510 1855-0510 Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri* yogi/astrologer/astronomer - Serampore, Bengal, British India (1936/80) 1855-0520 1855-0531 1855-0601 Edward Angle* dentist/widely regarded as “the father of American orthodontics” - Herricks, NY USA (1930/75) 1855-0628 Theodor Reuss* singer/journalist/occultist/ - Augsburg, Germany (1923/68) 1855-0716 Rodolphe Lindt* chocolatier/ inventor/entrepreneur - Bern, Switzerland (1909/53) 1855-0726 Ferdinand Tönnies* sociologist/philosopher - Oldenswort, Duchy of Schleswig (1936/80) 1855-0804 Jay Hunt* film director/actor - Philadelphia, PA USA (1932/77) 1855-0818 Alfred Wallis* fisherman/ painter - Devonport, Devon, England (1942/87) 1855-0831 1855-0909 Houston Stewart Chamberlain* British-German philosopher/ racial theorist - Southsea, Hampshire, England (1927/71) 1855-0917 Effie Ellsler* actress - Philadelphia, PA USA (1942/87) 1855-0920 Dark Cloud* (b Elijah Tahamont) silent film actor/a chief of the Abenaki, a First Nations band government - Odanak, QC Canada (1918/62) 1855-0930 1855-1001 1855-1011 James Gayley* chemist/metallurgist - Lock Haven, PA USA (1920/64) 1855-1017 George Getty* lawyer - Allegany County, MD USA (1930/74) 1855-1112 Amandus Adamson* sculptor/painter - Uuga-Rätsepa, Estonia (1929/73) 1855-1201 Robert W. Speer* mayor of Denver - Mount Union, PA USA (1918/62) 1855-1210 1855-1225 Kazimierz Pochwalski* Polish painter - Kraków, GD of Kraków, Austrian Empire (1940/84) 1855-1229 August Kitzberg* Estonian writer - Laatre, Livonia, Russian Empire (1927/71) 1855-1229 William Thompson Sedgwick* teacher/ epidemiologist/ key figure in shaping public health in the United States - West Hartford, CT USA (1921/65) 1855-0 1855-0 1855-0 Updated 2025-0429 Helsinki Search for another year here