In the year 1865, John Deere receives a patent for plows (Feb 21), Abraham Lincoln is sworn in for a second term (Mar 4), the German company BASF is founded (Apr 6), Lincoln is assassinated in Washington, D.C. (Apr 14), the Confederate Government is officially dissolved (May 5), the Mimosa sets sail with Welsh emigrants to Patagonia (May 28), Salvation Army is founded (Jul 2), the U.S. Secret Service is founded (Jul 5), Wild Bill Hickok shoots a man over a poker debt in what is regarded as the first true western fast draw showdown (Jul 21), slavery is legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware (Dec 18), Ku Klux Klan is founded (Dec 24), the American Civil War (1861-1865) ends - and all these fine people were born:

1865-0110 Mary Ingalls* sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Pepin, WI USA (1928/63) 1865-0120 Wilhelm Ramsay* geologist/coined the term Fennoscandia - Taalintehdas, Dragsfjärd, GD of Finland (1928/62) 1865-0122 Georg Liebling* pianist/composer - Berlin, German Confederation (1946/81) 1865-0125 1865-0128 Lala Lajpat Rai* key figure in the Indian Independence Movement - Dhudike, Punjab, British India (1928/63) 1865-0128 Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg* politician/1stP - Suomussalmi, GD of Finland (1952/87) 1865-0131 Henri Desgrange* bicycle racer/sports journalist/ first organizer of the Tour de France - Paris, France (1940/75) 1865-0131 1865-0201 1865-0205 André Fontainas* poet/ critic/active in France - Brussels, Belgium (1948/83) 1865-0216 Yamashita Yoshitsugu* 山下 義韶 judoka/a pioneer of judo in the United States - Kanazawa, Kaga Province, Japan (1935/70) 1865-0219 Sven Hedin* geographer/explorer/travel writer - Stockholm, Sweden (1952/87) 1865-0220 1865-0228 1865-0301 Clarence Moore* businessman/ sportsman/sank with the Titanic - Clarksburg, WV USA (1912/47) 1865-0304 Eduard Vilde* writer/diplomat - Pudivere, Estonia, Russian Empire (1933/68) 1865-0309 Helena Wood Smith* painter - Bangor, ME USA (1914/49) 1865-0310 1865-0312 Lilian Faithfull* teacher/magistrate/humanitarian - Hoddesdon, England (1952/87) 1865-0325 Luise Zietz* socialist/feminist - Bargteheide, Holstein, Prussia (1922/56) 1865-0409 Charles Proteus Steinmetz* German-American mathematician/ electrical engineer - Breslau, Prussia (1923/58) 1865-0426 Akseli Gallen-Kallela* (b Axel Gallén) painter - Pori, GD of Finland (1931/65) 1865-0501 1865-0505 Helen Maud Merrill* litterateur/poet - Bangor, ME USA (dod) 1865-0525 Pieter Zeeman* physicist/N - Zonnemaire, Netherlands (1943/78) 1865-0530 Fredrik Vilhelm Thorsson* shoemaker/socialist politician - Stora Köpinge socken, Malmöhus, Sweden (1925/59) 1865-0609 Carl Nielsen* composer/conductor - Sortelung, Fyn, Denmark (1931/66) 1865-0613 Karl Blossfeldt* photographer/ sculptor/teacher - Schielo, Germany (1932/67) 1865-0613 William Butler Yeats* poet/N - Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland (1939/73) 1865-0628 Juan B. Justo* physician/journalist/ politician - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1928/62) 1865-0630 Herman Coster* Dutch lawyer/State Attorney of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek - Alkmaar, Netherlands (1899/34) 1865-0726 Philipp Scheidemann* politician/Chancellor of Germany - Kassel, Electorate of Hesse (1939/74) 1865-0805 Jully Ramsay* (b Julia Ekström) genealogist/historian - Leppävirta, GD of Finland (1919/53) 1865-0806 Hannah Chaplin* (b Pedlingham Hill) actress/dancer/mother of Charlie Chaplin - Walworth, London, England (1928/63) 1865-0815 Mikao Usui* 臼井甕男 founder of Reiki - Taniai, Gifu, Japan (1926/60) 1865-0817 Julia Marlowe* British-American actress - Caldbeck, Cumberland, England (1950/85) 1865-0824 Ferdinand I of Romania* (b Ferdinand Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) King of Romania - Sigmaringen, German Confederation (1927/61) 1865-0827 James Henry Breasted* archaeologist/ Egyptologist/historian - Rockford, IL USA (1935/70) 1865-0827 Charles G. Dawes* banker/ politician/VP/N - Marietta, OH USA (1951/85) 1865-0901 1865-0907 Abraham Isaac Kook* Orthodox rabbi/one of the fathers of religious Zionism - Griva, Russian Empire (1935/69) 1865-0911 Jānis “Rainis” Pliekšāns* Latvian poet/playwright/politician - Dunava Parish, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (1929/64) 1865-0914 Edgar Aabye* journalist/athlete/OG in the tug of war - Helsingør, Denmark (1941/75) 1865-0924 Mollie McConnell* silent film actress - Chicago, IL USA (1920/55) 1865-1015 Benjamin Guggenheim* heir/businessman/ sank with the Titanic - Philadelphia, PA USA (1912/46) 1865-1021 Otto von Brandenstein* officer/fought also with the Finnish Whites in the Finnish Civil War - Prussia, German Confederation (1945/79) 1865-1022 Kristjan Raud* symbolist painter/illustrator/one of the founders of the  Estonian National Museum  - Kirikuküla, Estonia (1943/77) 1865-1102 Warren G. Harding* politician/ 29usp - Blooming Groove, OH USA (1923/57) 1865-1130 Rudyard Kipling* journalist/ poet/novelist/N - Bombay, British India (1936/70) 1865-1208 Jean Sibelius* violinist/ composer - Hämeenlinna, Finland (1957/91) 1865-1224 Szymon Askenazy* historian/educator/statesman - Zawichost, Poland (1935/69) 1865-0 1865-0 1865-0 Updated 2025-0216 Helsinki Search for another year here