Year 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1858 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing events [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d. 1922)
- January 10 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
- January 11 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947)
- January 27 – Cornelia Hubertina Doff (Neel Doff), French author of Dutch origin (d. 1942)
- February 15 – John Joseph Montgomery, American glider pioneer (d. 1911)
- February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1939)
- March 9 – Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer and architect. (d. 1942)
- March 10 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
- March 18 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
- March 23 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)
- March 30 – De Wolf Hopper, actor & comedian (d. 1935)
- April 23 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
- April 30 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1948)
- June 16
- June 20 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist, political activist (d. 1932)
- June 28 – Otis Skinner, American stage & film actor (d. 1943)
[edit] July–December - July 9 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
- July 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette, mother of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst (d. 1928)
- August 1 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
- August 2 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Dutch Queen and regent (d. 1934)
- August 11 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
- August 13 – George Edward MacKenzie Skues, British inventor of nymph fly fishing (d. 1949)
- August 19 – Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (d. 1937)
- August 27 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
- September 1 – Andrew Jackson Zilker, American philanthropist (d. 1934)
- September 16 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
- October 3 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
- October 19 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
- October 27 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
- November 20 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- November 26 – Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic saint
- November 30 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
- December 11 – Kata Dalström, Swedish politician (d. 1923)
- December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
- December 25 – Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d. 1936)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June [edit] July–December - August 14 – Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (b. 1824)
- September 9 – Thomas Assheton Smith II, politician and cricketer (b. 1776)
- September 17 – Dred Scott, American slave (b. ca 1795)
- November 12 – Alois II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1796)
- November 15 – Li Hsu-pin, military leader (b. 1817)
- November 17 – Robert Owen, social reformer (b. 1771)
- November 24 – Wincenty Krasiński, Polish military leader (b. 1782)
- December 3 – Joseph Marie Elisabeth Durocher, geologist (b. 1817)
- December 13 – Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, botanist (b. 1799)
- December 17 – Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1800)
- date unknown – Georgios Kountouriotis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1782)
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