1858 is a common year starting on Friday.
Events
Births
- January 7 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda responsible for revival of Hebrew language
- January 10 - Heinrich Zille, illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
- January 11 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947)
- February 18 - Louise-Marie Amélie, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1924)
- March 10 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
- March 18 - Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the compression ignition engine (d. 1913)
- March 1 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
- April 23 - Max Planck, German physicist, inventor of quantum mechanics
- June 16 - King Gustav V of Sweden
- June 16 - William Dickson Boyce founder of the Boy Scouts of America
- July 9 - Franz Boas, German cultural anthropologist (d. 1942)
- August 1 - Hans Rott, composer
- August 27 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
- October 27 - Theodore Roosevelt, later President of the United States
- December 22 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer
Deaths
