1858
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years: 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 - 1858 - 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863
[edit] Events
- Charles Darwin proposes the natural selection of species.
- A civil war between conservatists and liberals starts in Mexico.
[edit] Births
- 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)
- 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)
- April 23 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
- June 16 - King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
- June 16 - William Dickson Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1929)
- July 9 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
- August 1 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
- August 11 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
- August 27 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
- September 18 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
- October 3 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
- 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 30 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
- December 22 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
- December 25 - Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d. 1936)
