Famous Birthdays for Year 1858

Months in Year 1858: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 128 of 128

Jan 5th - Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror)
Jan 7th - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
Jan 10th - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
Jan 11th - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American retailer (d. 1947)
Jan 13th - Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d.1931)
Jan 15th - Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter
Jan 17th - Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra)
Jan 18th - Daniel Williams, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, surgeon (1st open heart operation), (d. 1931)
Jan 19th - Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries)
Jan 22nd - Beatrice Potter Webb, England, economist
Jan 22nd - Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron (Congo)
Jan 25th - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer
Jan 25th - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
Jan 27th - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer
Feb 14th - Charles Beach Hawley, composer
Feb 14th - Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
Feb 15th - William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
Feb 16th - Laurence "Lon" Myers, US, track star (top US miler)
Feb 17th - Ernest Ford, composer
Heart surgeon Daniel Williams (Jan 18th) Feb 18th - Louise M A, princess of Belgium
Feb 24th - Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician
Feb 26th - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (d. 1917)
Feb 28th - Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
Mar 1st - Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
Mar 7th - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer
Mar 13th - Maximilien Luce, French painter
Mar 15th - Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
Mar 18th - Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor)
Mar 23rd - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927)
Mar 27th - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
Apr 1st - Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life)
Apr 1st - Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
Apr 3rd - Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature
Apr 4th - Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915)
Apr 7th - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
Apr 15th - Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
Apr 15th - Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social)
Apr 19th - May Robson, [Mary J Robison], Melbourne Aust, actress (Apple Annie)
Apr 19th - Siegfried Ochs, composer
Apr 20th - Auguste Chapuis, composer
Apr 22nd - Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
Apr 23rd - Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
Apr 30th - Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893)
May 1st - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer
May 6th - Georges Adolphe Hue, composer
May 8th - John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
May 10th - Frederick Zech Jr, composer
May 11th - Carl Hauptmann, writer
May 16th - Frank Lynes, composer
May 16th - Hanus Trnecek, composer
May 19th - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller (Surinam)
May 21st - Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
May 24th - Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer)
May 28th - Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
May 30th - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
Jun 1st - William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
Jun 2nd - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer
Jun 8th - Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
Jun 16th - Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50)
Jun 17th - Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)
Jun 18th - Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
Jun 19th - Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
Jun 19th - Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26)
Jun 20th - Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)
Jun 20th - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
Jun 23rd - William Ernst Johnson, Cambridge England, mathematician
Jun 25th - Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright
Jun 29th - George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal)
Jun 30th - Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31]
Jul 5th - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, Dutch actress
Jul 9th - Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man)
Jul 10th - Karl Flodin, composer
Jul 13th - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
Jul 14th - Emmeline Pankhurst, England, found (Women's Social & Political Union)
Jul 16th - Eugene Ysaye, composer
Jul 20th - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
Jul 21st - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
Jul 21st - Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
Jul 21st - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
Jul 24th - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
Jul 26th - Tommy Garrett, cricketer (original Australian Test player)
Jul 31st - Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
Aug 1st - Hans Rott, composer
Aug 1st - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
Aug 1st - Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
Aug 2nd - Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen consort of William and Regent of the Netherlands
Aug 2nd - Catherina van Rennes, composer
Aug 2nd - William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
Aug 6th - Albert Fuchs, composer
Bacteriologist Christiaan Eijkman (Aug 11th) Aug 11th - Christiaan Eijkman, Nijkerk Netherlands, bacteriologist (avitaminos, Nobel 1929), (d. 1930)
Aug 16th - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927)
Aug 19th - Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
Aug 27th - Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Piemonte Italy, mathematician
Sep 9th - Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
Sep 12th - Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter/sculptor
Sep 13th - Catherinus Elling, composer
Sep 15th - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit
Sep 15th - Jeno Hubay, composer
Sep 16th - Andrew Bonar Law, British PM (C, 1922-23)
Sep 24th - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
Sep 25th - Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist
Sep 27th - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
Sep 27th - Porsteinn Erlingsson, Iceland, poet (Pyrnar)
Sep 29th - Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
Oct 4th - Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
Oct 5th - Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria
Oct 9th - Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
Oct 15th - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer
Oct 15th - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92)
Oct 19th - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
Oct 20th - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
Oct 21st - Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt (Oct 27th) Oct 27th - Theodore Roosevelt, NYC, (R) 26th Pres (1901-09; Nobel 1906), (d. 1919)
Nov 7th - Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)
Nov 11th - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
Nov 12th - Alexis Contant, composer
Nov 13th - Percy McDonnell, cricketer (Australian batsman of the 1880's)
Nov 20th - Selma Lagerlöf, Mårbacka, Värmland, author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils), (d. 1940)
Nov 23rd - Frank Hearne, cricketer (bro of George & Alec, Eng & S Afr)
Nov 25th - Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
Nov 26th - Katharine Drexel, Roman Catholic Saint (d. 1955)
Nov 30th - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
Dec 4th - Billy Gunn, cricketer (Notts & England batsman in 11 Tests 1886-99)
Dec 11th - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (d. 1943)
Dec 13th - Jakab Gyula Major, composer
Dec 20th - Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop, Dutch painter/graphic artist (3 Brides)
Dec 22nd - Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy opera composer (La bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly), (d. 1924)
Composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec 22nd) Dec 23rd - Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, playwright (Life in Russian Theater)