Birthdays In History 1858

1858 Heinrich Rauchinger Kraków-born painter (d. 1942)

1858 Carter Glass American publisher and politician 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1946)

1858 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (d. 1922)

1858 Heinrich Zille German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)

1858 Harry Gordon Selfridge American-English businessman founded Selfridges (d. 1947)

1858 Oskar Minkowski Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (d. 1931)

1858 Giovanni Segantini Italian painter (d. 1899)

1858 Tomás Carrasquilla Colombian author (d. 1940)

1858 Beatrice Webb English sociologist and economist (d. 1943)

1858 Constance Naden English poet and philosopher (d. 1889)

1858 Mikimoto Kōkichi Japanese businessman (d. 1954)

1858 Henry Ward Ranger American painter and academic (d. 1916)

1858 Tore Svennberg Swedish actor and director (d. 1941)

1858 Ida Hunt Udall American diarist and homesteader (d. 1915)

1858 Adolph Ochs American publisher (d. 1935)

1858 Liberty Hyde Bailey American botanist and academic co-founded the American Society for Horticultural Science (d. 1954)

1858 Kang Youwei Chinese scholar and politician (d. 1927)

1858 Ludwig Quidde German activist and politician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

1858 Siegfried Alkan German composer (d. 1941)

1858 Jacob Gaudaur Canadian rower (d. 1937)

1858 Washington Atlee Burpee Canadian businessman founded Burpee Seeds (d. 1915)

1858 Dhondo Keshav Karve Indian educator and activist Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962)

1858 Alexander Shirvanzade Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935)

1858 Ethel Smyth English composer (d. 1944)

1858 Fritz Mayer van den Bergh Belgian art collector and art historian (d. 1901)

1858 Max Planck German physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)

1858 Georgia Hopley American journalist temperance advocate and the first woman prohibition agent (d. 1944)

1858 John L. Leal American physician (d. 1914)

1858 Heinrich Berté Slovak-Austrian composer (d. 1924)

1858 J. Meade Falkner English author and poet (d. 1932)

1858 Édouard Goursat French mathematician (d. 1936)

1858 Belmiro de Almeida Brazilian painter illustrator sculptor (d. 1935)

1858 Carl Richard Nyberg Swedish inventor and businessman developed the blow torch (d. 1939)

1858 Graham Wallas English socialist social psychologist and educationalist (d. 1932)

1858 Charlotte Scott English mathematician (d. 1931)

1858 Harry Johnston English botanist and explorer (d. 1927)

1858 Henry Scott Tuke English painter and photographer (d. 1929)

1858 Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)

1858 Eben Sumner Draper American businessman and politician 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)

1858 Andrew Forsyth Scottish-English mathematician and academic (d. 1942)

1858 Hector Rason English-Australian politician 7th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1927)

1858 Sam Walter Foss American poet and librarian (d. 1911)

1858 Charles W. Chesnutt American novelist and short story writer (d. 1932)

1858 Giuseppe De Sanctis Italian painter (d. 1924)

1858 Medardo Rosso Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1928)

1858 Hastings Rashdall English historian philosopher and theologian (d. 1924)

1858 Georges Courteline French author and playwright (d. 1929)

1858 George Washington Goethals American general and engineer co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)

1858 Julia Lathrop American activist and politician (d. 1932)

1858 Willard Metcalf American painter (d. 1925)

1858 Velma Caldwell Melville American editor and writer of prose and poetry (d. 1924)

1858 William Irvine Irish-Australian politician 21st Premier of Victoria (d. 1943)

1858 Stewart Culin American ethnographer and author (d. 1929)

1858 Maria Christina of Austria (d. 1929)

1858 Lovis Corinth German painter (d. 1925)

1858 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe New Zealand painter and educator (d. 1941)

1858 Tom Garrett Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1943)

1858 George Lyon Canadian golfer and cricketer (d. 1938)

1858 Richard Dixon Oldham English seismologist and geologist (d. 1936)

1858 Marion Talbot influential American educator (d. 1948)

1858 Gaston Doumergue French lawyer and politician 13th President of France (d. 1937)

1858 Hans Rott Austrian organist and composer (d. 1884)

1858 E. Nesbit English author and poet (d. 1924)

1858 Arthur Achleitner German author (d. 1927)

1858 Ellen Willmott English horticulturalist (d. 1934)

1858 Rudolf Crown Prince of Austria (d. 1889)

1858 Giuseppe Peano Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1932)

1858 Ignaz Sowinski Galician architect (d. 1917)

1858 Charles de Foucauld French priest and martyr (d. 1916)

1858 Jenő Hubay Hungarian violinist composer and educator (d. 1937)

1858 Edward Marshall Hall English lawyer and politician (d. 1927)

1858 Kate Booth English Salvation Army officer (d. 1955)

1858 Eugene Foss American businessman and politician 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)

1858 Eleonora Duse Italian actress (d. 1924)

1858 Léon Serpollet French businessman (d. 1903)

1858 Helen Churchill Candee American journalist and author (d. 1949)

1858 Mihajlo Pupin Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935)

1858 Maurice Prendergast American painter and academic (d. 1924)

1858 George Albert Boulenger Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (d. 1937)

1858 John Burns English union leader and politician President of the Board of Trade (d. 1943)

1858 Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1921)

1858 Take Ionescu Romanian politician diplomat journalist and lawyer (d. 1922)

1858 Elliott Lewis Australian politician 19th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1935)

1858 Saitō Makoto Japanese admiral and politician 30th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)

1858 Saint Geevarghese Mar Dionysius of Vattasseril Indian Orthodox Saint (d. 1934)

1858 Bipin Chandra Pal Indian academic and activist (d. 1932)

1858 Heinrich XXVII Prince Reuss Younger Line (d. 1928)

1858 Albert Ranft Swedish actor and director (d. 1938)

1858 Alfred Capus French journalist author and playwright (d. 1922)

1858 Katharine Drexel American nun and saint (d. 1955)

1858 Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian physicist biologist botanist and archaeologist (d. 1937)

1858 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Russian director producer and playwright (d. 1943)

1858 Juan Luis Sanfuentes Chilean lawyer and politician 17th President of Chile (d. 1930)

1858 Neel Doff Dutch-Belgian author (d. 1942)

1858 Tannatt William Edgeworth David Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934)

1858 Ignacio Bonillas Mexican diplomat (d. 1942)

1858 Eugène Ysaÿe Belgian violinist composer and conductor (d. 1931)

1858 Émile Durkheim French sociologist psychologist and philosopher (d. 1917)

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