1855
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Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1855
January–June
July–December
Undated
Ongoing events
Births
- January 5 – King Camp Gillette, American razor inventor (d. 1932)
- January 20 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
- January 21 – John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926)
- January 28 – William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898)
- February 20 – John R. Lindgren, Founder of the banking firm Haugan & Lindgren (d. 1915)
- March 4 – Luther Emmett Holt, American pediatrician (d. 1924)
- March 13 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)
- March 24 – Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937)
- April 9 – John Marden, Australian Headmaster and pioneer of women's education (d. 1924)
- April 21 – Hardy Richardson, 19th century baseball player (d. 1931)
- April 27 – Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929)
- May 1 – Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924)
- May 9 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932)
- May 10 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Author of The Holy Science
- May 23 – Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (d. 1924)
- July 26 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
- October 12 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922)
- October 21 – Howard Hyde Russell, American activist (d. 1946)
- November 5 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
- November 6 – Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
- December 28 – John William Wood Sr., North Carolinan politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (d. 1928)
Deaths
- January 6 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
- January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (b. 1787)
- January 26 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
- February 6 – Josef Munzinger, Member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791)
- February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
- March 2 – Nicholas I of Russia, 11th Tsar of Russia (b. 1796)
- March 8 – William Poole, infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
- March 29 – Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799)
- March 31 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
- May 5 – Robert Inglis, English politician (b. 1786)
- May 23 – Charles Robert Malden English explorer (b. 1797)
- June 28 – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788)
- June 28 – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
- August 7 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
- September 7 – William Barton Wade Dent, Congressman (b. 1806)
- November 11 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- September 20 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran Father, National Hero, and founder of Autonomus National University of Honduras (b. 1797)
- November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish poet and writer (b. 1798)
- December 6 – William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
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