1855
| Years: 1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858 | |
| Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s | |
| Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1855 in art List of state leaders in 1855 | |
Events
Births
- January 5 - King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932)
- January 21 - John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926)
- January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898)
- March 13 - Percival Lowell, astronomer († 1916)
- March 24 - Andrew Mellon, financier († 1937)
- April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929)
- May 1 - Marie Corelli, novelist
- July 30 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist
- November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist († 1913)
Deaths
- February 6 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (*1791)
- February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist
- March 29 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (*1799)
- March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, author
- May 23 - Charles Robert Malden explorer
- June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War
- August 7 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico
- November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher
- November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poets and author.
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