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- Harry Brett was born on 22 March 1859 in Kensington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for My Old Dutch (1915), A Fallen Star (1916) and The Bottle (1915). He died on 28 May 1918 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK.
- Earl Jellicoe was born on 5 December 1859 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. He died on 20 November 1935 in London, England, UK.
- Dion Boucicault Jr. was born on 23 May 1859 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Masks and Faces (1917). He was married to Irene Vanbrugh. He died on 25 June 1929 in Hurley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- Jakob Christoph Heer was born on 17 July 1859 in Töss, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for Eternal Love (1929), An heiligen Wassern (1932) and Der König der Bernina (1957). He was married to Emma Karoline Gossweiler. He died on 20 August 1925 in Zürich, Switzerland.
- Victor Lundberg was born on 20 March 1859 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Dan, tant och lilla fröken Söderlund (1924), Kärlek och kassabrist (1932) and Carl XII:s kurir (1924). He died on 7 April 1939.
- Elek Benedek was born on 29 September 1859 in Kisbacon, Austrian Empire [now Bátanii Mici, Romania]. He was a writer, known for Benedek Elek meséi and Pirkadat (2008). He died on 17 August 1929 in Bátanii Mici, Romania.
- Marie Montbazon was born on 29 January 1859 in Avignon, Vaucluse, France. She was an actress, known for Miarka, the Child of the Bear (1920), La maison vide (1921) and Les Roquevillard (1922). She died on 18 October 1922 in Paris, France.
- Jelka Anic was born on 13 November 1859 in Zagreb, Croatia. She was an actress, known for Dama sa crnom krinkom (1919). She died on 19 August 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia.
- George Lansbury was born on 21 February 1859 in Suffolk, England, UK. He died on 7 May 1940 in London, England, UK.
- A triple threat actor-writer-singer, Henry E. Dixey became a major Broadway star in the play (written by longtime friend and associate, Edward E. Rice), "Adonis" in which portrayed a marble statue that comes to life. With his ripped physique, the production became a sensation and ran for a then-record 603 performances at the Bijou Theatre. Dixey would go on to star in the road production for years in addition to starring or producing 33 individual Broadway productions. He would only appear in a very small number of films that were shot in New York and retire at age 67 in mid-1926. Shortly after his 84th birthday he was killed by a city bus in Atlantic City.
- Madeleine Lucette began her career as an actress and singer, joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1878 as a soprano chorister. Before she left the company in 1882, she had also performed in the principal roles of Constance and Aline in the W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan operetta "The Sorcerer". She married fellow D'Oyly Carte singer J.H. Ryley and later, under her married name of Madeleine Lucette Ryley, became known as an author of plays, two of which were adapted into films.
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Stanislaw Roman Lewandowski was born on 28 February 1859 in Kotliny, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kotliny, Lódzkie, Poland]. Stanislaw Roman is known for Kult ciala (1930). Stanislaw Roman died on 3 February 1940 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Richard Lundin was born on 3 September 1859. He was an actor, known for Mästerman (1920), Familjens traditioner (1920) and Kärlek och björnjakt (1920). He died on 19 March 1933 in Mörby, Sweden.
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Eugene Py was born on 19 May 1859 in Carcassonne, Aude, France. Eugene was a director and writer, known for Mister Wiskey (1907), Los escruchantes (1911) and Cochero de tranvía (1909). Eugene died on 26 August 1924 in San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Frank H. Spearman was born on 6 September 1859 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Night Flyer (1928), The Love Special (1921) and Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952). He was married to Eugenia Lonergan. He died on 29 December 1937 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Abraham L. Erlanger was born on 4 May 1859 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). He was married to Louise Balfe, Charlotte Fiscal and Adelaide Louise. He died on 7 March 1930 in New York City, New York, USA.- Writer
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A.M. Willner was born on 11 July 1859 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer, known for The Rogue Song (1930), Strauss' Great Waltz (1934) and Wo die Lerche singt (1936). He died on 27 October 1929 in Vienna, Austria.- Charles Darrell was born on 29 June 1859 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Idol of Paris (1914), From Shopgirl to Duchess (1915) and Her Luck in London (1914). He was married to Amy Tempest (actress). He died on 25 March 1932 in England, UK.
- Cardinal William O'Connell was born on 8 December 1859 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. He was a producer, known for Monastery (1938), Cavalcade of Faith (1941) and Pathé's Weekly, No. 7 (1912). He died on 22 April 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Jenö Balassa was born on 30 May 1859 in Jászárokszállás, Hungary. He was an actor, known for A 111-es (1920), Az utolsó hajnal (1917) and Három hét (1917). He was married to Klári Fátyol. He died on 4 August 1926 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Mathilda Caspér was born on 14 March 1859 in Gävle, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Hemsöborna (1919), Thora van Deken (1920) and Anderssonskans Kalle (1922). She died in June 1934 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Ede Hatvani was born on 15 January 1859 in Csongrád, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for A Csöppség (1919) and Midas király (1919). He died on 30 May 1927 in Budapest, Hungary.
- William Wandahl was born on 7 August 1859 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Et Justitsmord (1915). He died on 3 February 1944.
- Irving Bacheller was born on 26 September 1859 in Pierpont, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921), The Light in the Clearing (1921) and Old Shep (1936). He was married to Mary Elizabeth Leonard Sollace and Anna Detmar Schultz. He died on 24 February 1950 in White Plains, New York, USA.
- Ilka Pálmay was born on 21 September 1859 in Ungvár, Hungary [now Uzhgorod, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Johann Strauß an der schönen blauen Donau (1913), Das Satansweib (1915) and Kártyavár (1919). She was married to Jenõ Kinsky and József Szigligeti. She died on 17 February 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
- George Wylie Paul Hunt was born on 1 November 1859 in Huntsville, Missouri, USA. He was married to Helen Duett Ellison. He died on 24 December 1934 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- Doris Thompson was born on 16 August 1859 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for A Maid of Mandalay (1913), The Lonely Princess (1913) and The Mystery of the Stolen Jewels (1913). She was married to William V. Ranous. She died on 19 January 1916 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
- Eugène-Louis Doyen was born on 16 December 1859 in Reims, France. He died on 21 November 1916 in Paris, France.
- J.T. MacMillan was born on 1 January 1859 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Croxley Master (1921). He died in 1927 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.
- Kosta Khetagurov is a national poet of the Ossetian people who is generally regarded as the founder of Ossetian literature. He was also a talented painter and a notable public benefactor. Kosta Khetagurov was born in the village of Nar in what is now Alagirsky District in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. He studied at the Stavropol Gymnasium from 1871 to 1881, and entered the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1881, but had to quit his studies due to financial constraint in 1885. Returned back in his native Ossetia, Kosta became a prominent poet, whose poems composed in Ossetic quickly spread throughout Ossetian towns and villages in an oral form. His paintings also gained in notable popularity, one of them depicting Saint Nino, a 4th-century Christian baptizer of the Georgians, was particularly welcomed by the Georgian society. Due to his criticism of the Imperial Russian government he was twice exiled from his motherland from 1891 to 1896 and again from 1899 to 1902. The last exile significantly shattered the poet's health and deprived him of the ability to continue his creative and social activities. Kosta Khetagurov passed away shortly afterwards in Karachay in 1906.
- Alma Bodén was born on 27 June 1859 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Hemliga Svensson (1933). She died on 1 December 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Arthur Forrest was born on 16 August 1859 in Ungwar, Hungary. He was an actor, known for When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922). He died on 14 May 1933 in New York City, New York, USA.
- After finishing school, he studied natural sciences, mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna. He was a student of Carl Stumpf and Franz Brentano, among others. Husserl wrote his doctoral thesis on the calculus of variations. He then became a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Halle. During this time he turned to the psychological foundations of mathematics. In "Philosophy of Arithmetic" (1891) he argued that the validity of mathematical truths is independent of the way in which people arrived at them. In the "Logical Investigations" (1900/01) Husserl rejected his philosophy of arithmetic as psychologism. Now he held that the task of the philosopher was to consider the nature of things. Husserl shows that consciousness is always directed towards something.
He calls this directedness intentionality and claims that consciousness contains ideal, unchanging structures and meanings that determine what the mind is directed toward at any given time. During his tenure at the University of Göttingen between 1901 and 1916, Husserl's philosophy attracted numerous students; a separate phenomenological school emerged. His probably most influential work, Ideas for a pure phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy, appeared in 1913 as the opening article in the first volume of the "Yearbook for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research" that he edited. In it he introduced the concept of phenomenological reduction for his method of reflecting on the meanings that the mind attaches to a thing when it looks at it. This method refers to meanings that are present in the mind regardless of whether the thing present to consciousness actually exists. The question of the real existence of the thing under consideration is of no interest here.
This was followed by detailed analyzes of the mental structures involved in the perception of particular types of objects. For example, Husserl gave a detailed description of his perception of the apple tree in his garden. This is how phenomenology proceeds descriptively, even if it does not assume the existence of things. According to Husserl, it is not the development of theories that is the concern of phenomenology, but rather the description of things themselves. "To the things themselves!" was his call to the philosophy of his time. In his late writings, such as the 1936 work "The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology" (complete edition by W. Biemel 1954), Husserl's theme is the "lifeworld" in its predetermined self-evidence.
Here, Husserl describes the connection of science to world life as the therapeutic task of phenomenology.
One of Husserl's students was Martin Heidegger, who, following his teacher, advocated an existential phenomenology and whose existential philosophy itself marked a similar new beginning in philosophy as his teacher's phenomenology. Husserl's and Heidegger's philosophies had an equal impact on Jean-Paul Sartre and French existentialism. - Emil Fenyvessy was born on 31 March 1859 in Ternye, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Terna, Slovak Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Tragödie im Hause Habsburg (1924), Anna Karenina (1918) and A csikós (1913). He died on 20 March 1924 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Joseph Holland was born on 20 December 1859 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Rich Idler (1916), Back to Primitive (1913) and A Perilous Ride (1913). He died on 25 September 1926 in New York City, New York, USA.- R.D. MacLean was born on 7 March 1859 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Bag and Baggage (1923), Don't Neglect Your Wife (1921) and The Best Man (1919). He was married to Odette Tyler. He died on 27 June 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- John Burke was born on 25 February 1859 in Keokuk County, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for The Million Dollar Mystery (1914). He died on 14 May 1937 in the USA.
- Alexandre Millerand was born on 10 February 1859 in Paris, France. He died on 7 April 1943 in Versailles, France.
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Adrian Ross was born on 23 December 1859 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. Adrian was married to Ethel Wood (actress). Adrian died on 10 September 1933 in London, England, UK.- Johan Jensen was born on 3 April 1859 in Horsens, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Gud raader (1912), Karen fra Gruben (1913) and Elskovsbarnet (1916). He died on 8 May 1925.
- Jefferson De Angelis was born on 30 November 1859 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Her Great Chance (1918), The Funny Side of Jealousy (1915) and Beware of the Dog (1915). He was married to Charlotte Elliott (1895-1938 actress) and Florence Conliffe. He died on 20 March 1933 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA.
- Jean Jaurès was born on 3 September 1859 in Castres, Tarn, France. He died on 31 July 1914 in Paris, France.
- Josef Wanderer was born on 13 January 1859 in Prague, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalion (1927) and Josef Kajetán Tyl (1926). He died on 11 March 1928 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Giuseppe Campanari was born on 17 November 1859 in Rovigo, Veneto, Italy. He was married to Mary. He died on 31 May 1927 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- Mason Mitchell was born on 26 February 1859 in Hamilton, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for English Lancers Charging (1900), Battle of Mafeking (1900) and Boer Comissary Train Treking (1900). He was married to Edna M. Ellis. He died on 16 June 1930 in New York, New York, USA.
- John C. Coble was born on 4 June 1859 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA. She died on 4 December 1914 in Elko, Nevada, USA.
- Václav Stech was born on 29 April 1859 in Kladno, Czech Republic. He was a writer, known for Tretí zvonení (1938), Nejlepsi clovek (1954) and Pan Jordán a Habada (1968). He died in February 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
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Conrad Dreher was born on 30 October 1859 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Der kleine Muck (1921), Der Mann mit dem Affenkopf (1920) and In der Sommerfrisch'n (1920). He died on 6 December 1944.- Paul Cinquevalli was born on 30 June 1859 in Lissa, Prussia, Germany [now Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He died on 14 July 1918 in Brixton, Devon, England, UK.
- She was born at her family's home at 18 Crucifix Lane in Bermondsey (Southwark, London) on September 17, 1859. Her father, James William Coles, was a 39 year-old master boot maker from Publow, Somerset. Her mother, Mary Ann Carney, was a 29 year-old from Armagh, Ireland. The Coles already had two daughters, 7 year-old Mary Ann (b. ca 1853), and Selina Adelina, who was almost four (born on October 25, 1855). Their last child, and only son, James Jr., would born on August 30, 1862.
Frances found a job as a trainee in the packing department of a soap and toiletries manufacturer called James Sinclair & Son, at 65 Southwark Street, and she moved into a lodging house at 192 Union Street. She told the people at Sinclair's and at the lodging house that her name was Coleman.
Frances was around 22 and still living at 192 Union Street when the 1881 census was taken, and still calling herself Coleman. She reported the occupation as "powder packer". She had already left her job at Sinclair's and was working at Winifred Hora & Co., a small wholesale druggist company in the East End, located at 58 Minories Street. It took her 40 minutes to walk from home to work. The company's flagship product was Macord's Transparent Waterproof Isinglass Plaster, but they also produced a variety of medicinal drugs and medicated powders for the wholesale and export market, packaging them in square glass bottles that were sealed with snug-fitting cork stoppers. Paper labels were then affixed to the bottles to identify the contents. Frances took turns between inserting the cork stoppers, or "stoppering the bottles" as she called it, and applying the paper labels with glue. The stoppers had to be forcibly twisted into the medicine bottles by hand, and Frances soon developed calluses on her knuckles. According to her foreman at Hora's, Frances was "an exceptionally quiet, retiring, and well-behaved girl (...), thoroughly respectable." Frances wasn't a full time employee at Hora's, she was a day laborer. When things were slow she didn't work or get paid. Some weeks she didn't earn anything. She worked there as an occasional day laborer for at least a few years but her last separation might have been as early as 1883. The next time the company had some work for her, they sent a telegram to her last known address, a Christian mission on Commercial Road, but she no longer lived there. The people at Hora's never tried to contact her again.
By 1883 Frances was living in a new residence, Wilmott's Lodging House at 18 Thrawl Street in Spitalfields. Wilmott's catered exclusively to women, and it was small by East End standards, having about seventy beds. Around this time, when she was around 24 years old, she met laborer James Murray and their relationship lasted for about four years.
Frances never held a permanent job again and while no one knows when she first became involved with prostitution, she probably began as an occasional one during her furloughs from work at Hora's. She had to do something to come up with the money she needed for food and shelter. Frances never earned enough to allow her to escape Thrawl Street, and her clothes had become so worn and dingy they kept her from being considered for any type of employment and she reached the point where she had no choice but walk the streets. Frances was extremely quiet, almost aloof. She tried to avoid people (clients) she considered "rough," and she "hated" the low-class prostitutes she encountered. At some point she picked up the street name "Carroty Nell".
James Thomas Sadler, a merchant seaman and fireman, first met Frances around September 1889, and he is quoted saying: "When I first knew her she was a very reserved kind of girl, keeping to herself, and never mixing with any women of her class. When I came home last time [18 months later, February 1891], though, I found her very much altered so far as her position went. She had come down in the world like they all do in time, but even then, she hated the women with whom she had to associate."
Regardless of the circumstances, her fall from grace was a secret she did her best to keep from her family. She still crossed the Thames every Friday to visit her father in the Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street. She also went to see him every holiday and on most Sundays as well.
The last time James Coles saw his daughter Frances was on Friday, February 6 1891, only a week before her murder. She apparently revealed the fact that she had left her position at the chemist's, but she told him that she was still renting a room in the home of a respectable older woman at 32 Richard Street.
James Thomas Sadler was discharged from the ship S.S. Fez on February 11 1891, and proceeded to make his way toward Commercial Street and The Princess Alice pub (or "The Alice"). He was a 53 year-old belligerent hard drinking big man, only two inches shy of 6 feet tall. While having some drinks he met Frances, who called him Jim (whereas all his friends called him Tom).
At 2:15am from Friday February 13th 1891, P.C. Ernest Thompson was on his beat along Chamber Street, only minutes away from Leman Street Police Station. He had been on the police force less than two months, and this was his first night on the beat alone. Thomspon heard the retreating footsteps of a man in the distance, apparently heading toward Mansell Street. Only a few seconds later he turns his vision to the darkest corner of Swallow Gardens and shines his lamp upon the body of Frances Coles. Thompson had passed the spot 15 minutes before and was adamant that she hadn't been there then. Blood was flowing profusely from her throat, and to Thompson's horror, he saw her open and shut one eye. Since the woman was alive, police procedure dictated that Thompson remain with the body - his inability to follow the retreating footsteps of the man he believed to have been her killer would haunt him for the rest of his days. Thompson immediately blew his whistle to raise the alarm and the neighboring beat officers, PC Frederick Hyde and PC Hinton, came running to the scene. They were soon joined by Police-constable George Elliott who was on plain clothes duty in adjacent Royal Mint-street. Checking for signs of life, the officers found her to be quite warm and they also felt a very faint pulse. PC Hyde was then sent to fetch the local medic, Dr Frederick Oxley, who arrived at the scene and pronounced life extinct.
James Thomas Sadler was captured by the police, but the Seamen's Union paid for his proper legal representation. At the inquest, the jury returned a verdict of "Willful Murder against some person or persons unknown" on February 27, and four days later the Thames Magistrate's Court dropped all charges against Sadler. As he left the court on March 3rd 1891, crowds of people cheered his release.