Historical Figures Born in 1858

Daniel Williams (1858-1931)

Jan 18 American heart surgeon who performed the 1st open heart Immunologist, born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania

Jan 19 Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries), born in Paris, France (d. 1932)
Jan 22 Beatrice Potter Webb, English sociologist, economist (founded London School of Economics) and writer (My Apprenticeship), born in Standish (d. 1943)
Jan 22 Frederick Lugard, British Colonial administrator, mercenary and explorer (Congo, Governor of Nigeria and Hong Kong), born in Madras, British India (d. 1945)
Jan 25 Kōkichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor and entrepreneur (cultured pearls), born in Toba, Japan (d. 1954)
Feb 14 Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and early African explorer (Thomson's Gazelle), born in Penpont, Dumfries, Scotland (d. 1895)
Feb 15 William Pickering, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1938)
Feb 16 Laurence "Lon" Myers, American track star (top US miler)
Feb 18 Louise, princess of Belgium, married and divorced Philipp, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1924)
Feb 26 Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
Feb 28 Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
Mar 1 Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
Mar 13 Maximilien Luce, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1941)
Mar 15 Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)

Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913)

Mar 18 French-born German engineer who invented the diesel engine, born in Paris

Mar 23 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
Apr 1 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
Apr 1 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
Apr 3 Matthew Ricketts, 1st African American man elected to Nebraska State Legislature, born in Henry County, Kentucky (d. 1917)
Apr 4 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, born in Bazoches-en-Houlmes, France (d. 1915)
Apr 7 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
Apr 15 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social), born in Épinal, France (d. 1917)
Apr 23 Max Planck, German physicist, father of Quantum Physics (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918), born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein (d. 1947)
Apr 30 Mary Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893) as second wife of the 23rd United States president Benjamin Harrison, born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania (d. 1948)
May 8 John Meade Falkner, English novelist (Moonfleet), born in Manningford, England (d. 1932)
May 11 Carl Hauptmann, German writer, born in Obersalzbrunn (d. 1921)
May 19 Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and president of the Société de Géographie, born in Paris, France (d. 1924)
May 21 José Batlle y Ordóñez, President of Uruguay (1899, 1903-7, 1911-15), born in Montevideo, Urguay (d. 1929)
May 24 Johan Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1940)
May 28 Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (blowtorch), born in Arboga, Sweden (d. 1939)
Jun 1 William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream, Ian of the Orcades), born in Newmarket, Ontario (d. 1918)
Jun 16 Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50), born in Stockholm (d. 1950)
Jun 17 Eben Sumner Draper, American businessman and politician (44th Governor of Massachusetts), born in Hopedale, Massachusetts (d. 1914)
Jun 18 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
Jun 19 Dirk Fock, Dutch politician and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1921-26), born in Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands (d. 1941)
Jun 20 Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (The Conjure Woman), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1932)
Jun 20 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1928)
Jun 23 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, born in Cambridge, England
Jun 25 Georges Courteline [Moineau], French playwright, born in Tours, France (d. 1929)
Jun 29 George Washington Goethals, American army general and civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1928)

Franz Boas (1858-1942)

Jul 9 German-American anthropologist and linguist (Mind of Primitive Man), born in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia

Jul 13 Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

Jul 15 British suffragette who formed the Women's Social & Political Union (1903), born in Moss Side, Manchester

Jul 20 Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
Jul 21 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist, born in Sandhurst, Victoria (d. 1941)
Jul 21 Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
Jul 21 Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain, born in Židlochovice Castle, Moravia (d. 1929)
Jul 24 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920), born in NYC, New York (d. 1922)
Jul 31 Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1936)
Aug 1 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, born in Oleśnica, Poland (d. 1922)
Aug 2 Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen consort of William and Regent of the Netherlands, born in Arolsen Castle, Arolsen, Waldeck and Pyrmont, German Confederation (d. 1934)
Aug 2 William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest), born in Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire (d. 1935)

Christiaan Eijkman (1858-1930)

Aug 11 Dutch physician and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929), born in Nijkerk, Netherlands

Aug 15 Edith Nesbit, British children books author (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It), born in London, England (d. 1924)
Aug 16 Arthur Achleitner, German writer, born in Straubing, Germany (d. 1927)

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858-1889)

Aug 21 Crown Prince of Austria and heir apparent to the Imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, born in Schloss Laxenburg, Lower Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire

Aug 27 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and glottologist, born in Spinetta, Piedmont, Italy (d. 1932)
Sep 9 Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
Sep 12 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter and sculptor, born in Grembergen, Dendermonde, Belgium (d. 1921)
Sep 15 Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer and a hermit, born in Strasbourg, French Empire (d. 1916)

Bonar Law (1858-1923)

Sep 16 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), born in Kingston, Colony of New Brunswick (now Canada)

Sep 24 Eugene Foss, American politician (45th Governor of Massachusetts), born in St. Albans, Vermont (d. 1939)
Sep 27 Þorsteinn Erlingsson, Icelandic poet (Pyrnar), born in Iceland (d. 1914)
Oct 5 Henry von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Queen Victoria, born in Milan, Lombardy–Venetia (d. 1896)'
Oct 9 Gerard Philips, Dutch industrialist and manufacturer (Philips), born in Zaltbommel, Netherlands (d. 1942)
Oct 9 Mihajlo "Micheal" Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and telephone pioneer, born in Idvor, Military Frontier of Austria (now Kovačica, Serbia) (d. 1935)
Oct 19 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
Oct 20 John Burns, English politician and trade Unionist, born in London, England (d. 1943)
Oct 21 Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Oct 27 26th US President (R: 1901-09; Nobel 1906), born in NYC, New York

Nov 7 Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian nationalist and freedom fighter, born in Habiganj, Sylhet region, India (d. 1932)
Nov 11 Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian diarist and painter, born in Gavrontsi, Russian Empire (d. 1884)

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940)

Nov 20 Swedish author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils), born in Mårbacka, Värmland

Nov 25 Alfred Capus, French journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence, France (d. 1922)
Nov 26 Katharine Drexel, American philanthropist and Roman Catholic Saint, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1955)
Nov 30 Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, polymath and writer, born in Munshiganj, British India (d. 1937)

Chester Greenwood (1858-1937)

Dec 4 American inventor (invented earmuffs at 15), born in Farmington, Maine

Dec 11 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director, born in Ozurgeti, Georgia (d. 1943)
Dec 20 Jan Toorop, Dutch-Indonesian painter (3 Brides), born in Purworejo Regency, Indonesia (d. 1928)
Dec 23 Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright (Life in Russian Theater), born in Shemokmedi, Georgia (d. 1943)

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