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Who Was Alive in 1858

59 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1858

Jacob Grimm
Jacob GrimmAge 73
1785–1863 · Literature
Grimm's Fairy Tales
 Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur SchopenhauerAge 70
1788–1860 · Philosophy & Thought
German philosopher of pessimism
 Michael Faraday
Michael FaradayAge 67
1791–1867 · Science & Invention
Electromagnetic induction
 Charles Babbage
Charles BabbageAge 67
1791–1871 · Science & Invention
Father of the computer, designed the Analytical Engine
 Victor Hugo
Victor HugoAge 56
1802–1885 · Literature
Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
 Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre DumasAge 56
1802–1870 · Literature
Author of The Three Musketeers
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAge 55
1803–1882 · Philosophy & Thought
Transcendentalist essayist of Self-Reliance
 George Sand
George SandAge 54
1804–1876 · Literature
French novelist famous under a male pen name
 Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian AndersenAge 53
1805–1875 · Literature
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham LincolnAge 49
1809–1865 · Politics & Leadership
16th US President, ended slavery
 Charles Darwin
Charles DarwinAge 49
1809–1882 · Science & Invention
Theory of evolution by natural selection
 Franz Liszt
Franz LisztAge 47
1811–1886 · Music
Piano virtuoso, composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies
 Charles Dickens
Charles DickensAge 46
1812–1870 · Literature
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist
 Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe VerdiAge 45
1813–1901 · Music
La Traviata, Aida — operatic master
 Richard Wagner
Richard WagnerAge 45
1813–1883 · Music
Ring Cycle, revolutionary opera
 Otto von Bismarck
Otto von BismarckAge 43
1815–1898 · Politics & Leadership
Unified Germany, the Iron Chancellor
 Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassAge 40
1818–1895 · Activism & Social Change
Abolitionist, orator, writer
 Karl Marx
Karl MarxAge 40
1818–1883 · Philosophy & Thought
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
 Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleAge 39
1819–1891 · Literature
Moby-Dick
 Queen Victoria
Queen VictoriaAge 39
1819–1901 · Politics & Leadership
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
 Walt Whitman
Walt WhitmanAge 39
1819–1892 · Literature
Leaves of Grass, father of free verse
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 38
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
 Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 38
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
 Friedrich Engels
Friedrich EngelsAge 38
1820–1895 · Philosophy & Thought
Co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Marx
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor DostoevskyAge 37
1821–1881 · Literature
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
 Charles Baudelaire
Charles BaudelaireAge 37
1821–1867 · Literature
French poet of Les Fleurs du mal
 Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 36
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
 Louis Pasteur
Louis PasteurAge 36
1822–1895 · Science & Invention
Germ theory, pasteurization
 Gregor Mendel
Gregor MendelAge 36
1822–1884 · Science & Invention
Father of genetics
 Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 30
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
 Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 30
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
 Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 30
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
 Emily Dickinson
Emily DickinsonAge 28
1830–1886 · Literature
Reclusive poetic genius
 Sitting Bull
Sitting BullAge about 27
1831–1890 · Politics & Leadership
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
 James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk MaxwellAge 27
1831–1879 · Science & Invention
Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism
 Alfred Nobel
Alfred NobelAge 25
1833–1896 · Science & Invention
Invented dynamite, founded Nobel Prizes
 Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 24
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
 Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 23
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 23
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
 John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 19
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
 Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 18
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr TchaikovskyAge 18
1840–1893 · Music
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
 Émile Zola
Émile ZolaAge 18
1840–1902 · Literature
French novelist who wrote J'Accuse
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 17
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
 Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich NietzscheAge 14
1844–1900 · Philosophy & Thought
"God is dead," Beyond Good and Evil
 Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 14
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
 Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 11
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
 Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 11
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
 Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 10
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
 Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 6
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
 Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van GoghAge 5
1853–1890 · Art
Starry Night, post-Impressionist icon
 Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeAge 4
1854–1900 · Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray, wit and charm
 Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 2
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
 Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 2
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 2
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
 George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 2
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 0
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
 Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 0
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
 Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 0
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory

Born in 1858

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
 Max Planck
Max Planck
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
 Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader

Also Born in 1858

Selma Lagerlöf
1858–1940 · born November 20
Swedish author (1858–1940)
Giacomo Puccini
1858–1924 · born December 22
Italian opera composer (1858–1924)
Émile Durkheim
1858–1917 · born April 15
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Rudolf Diesel
1858–1913 · born March 18
German inventor and engineer (1858–1913)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
1858–1922 · born January 7
Jewish linguist and journalist (1858–1922)
Franz Boas
1858–1942 · born July 9
German-born American anthropologist (1858–1942)
Gustaf V
1858–1950 · born June 16
King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950
Bonar Law
1858–1923 · born September 16
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
Christiaan Eijkman
1858–1930 · born August 11
Dutch physician (1858–1930)
Giuseppe Peano
1858–1932 · born August 27
Italian mathematician and glottologist (1858–1932)
Jagadish Chandra Bose
1858–1937 · born November 30
Physicist, biologist and botanist (1857–1937)
Gaston Doumergue
1858–1937 · born August 1
President of France from 1924 to 1931

Also Died in 1858

Hiroshige
1797–1858 · died October 12
Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist
Coenraad Jacob Temminck
1778–1858 · died January 30
Dutch zoologist (1778–1858)
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
1766–1858 · died January 5
Austrian field marshal (1766–1858)
John Snow
1813–1858 · died June 16
English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858)
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
1806–1858 · died July 15
Russian painter (1806–1858)
Johannes Peter Müller
1801–1858 · died April 28
German zoologist (1801–1858)
Matthew C. Perry
1794–1858 · died March 4
United States Navy officer (1794–1858)
Harriet Taylor Mill
1807–1858 · died November 3
English writer, philosopher, and women's rights advocate (1807–1858)

Sources

  1. 1858 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Jacob Grimm — Wikipedia
  3. Arthur Schopenhauer — Wikipedia
  4. Michael Faraday — Wikipedia
  5. Charles Babbage — Wikipedia
  6. Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
  7. Alexandre Dumas — Wikipedia
  8. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wikipedia
  9. George Sand — Wikipedia
  10. Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
  11. Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
  12. Charles Darwin — Wikipedia
  13. Franz Liszt — Wikipedia
  14. Charles Dickens — Wikipedia
  15. Giuseppe Verdi — Wikipedia
  16. Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
  17. Otto von Bismarck — Wikipedia
  18. Frederick Douglass — Wikipedia
  19. Karl Marx — Wikipedia
  20. Herman Melville — Wikipedia
  21. Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
  22. Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
  23. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  24. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  25. Friedrich Engels — Wikipedia
  26. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Wikipedia
  27. Charles Baudelaire — Wikipedia
  28. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  29. Louis Pasteur — Wikipedia
  30. Gregor Mendel — Wikipedia
  31. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  32. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  33. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  34. Emily Dickinson — Wikipedia
  35. Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
  36. James Clerk Maxwell — Wikipedia
  37. Alfred Nobel — Wikipedia
  38. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  39. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  40. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  41. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  42. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  43. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Wikipedia
  44. Émile Zola — Wikipedia
  45. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  46. Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikipedia
  47. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  48. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  49. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  50. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  51. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  52. Vincent van Gogh — Wikipedia
  53. Oscar Wilde — Wikipedia
  54. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  55. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  56. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  57. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  58. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  59. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  60. Max Planck — Wikipedia
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