Famous People Born in January 1855

Jan 2 Frank Hadow, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1878; first exponent of the lob), born in London, England (d. 1946)
Jan 3 Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)

Jan 5 American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Jan 10 Peter J. Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People) (d. 1929)
Jan 15 Jacques Damala [Aristides Damalas], Greek military officer and actor, born in Piraeus, Greece (d. 1889)
Jan 20 Ernest Chausson, French Romantic composer (Poème; Solitude dance le bois), born in Paris, France (d. 1899)
Jan 22 Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacteria that cause gonorrhea and leprosy, born in Schweidnitz, Prussian Empire (d. 1916)
Jan 22 Ernst Kullak, German pianist, and composer of parlor music, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1914)
Jan 23 John Moses Browning, American weapons manufacturer, born in Ogden, Utah Territory (d. 1926)
Jan 26 Arthur Hervey, Irish orchestral and operatic composer, and musicologist, born in Paris, France (d. 1922)
Jan 28 William Seward Burroughs, American inventor of the 1st workable adding machine, born in rural New York (d. 1898)