In the year 1858, Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March becomes a popular wedding recessional (Jan 25), the first aerial photography is carried out, from tethered balloon in France (Aug), after a summer of problems, a bill is passed to create a modern sewage system in London (Aug 2), Macy’s department store in New York City opens for business (Oct 28), the city of Denver, Colorado is founded (Nov 17), homosexuality is legalised in the Ottoman Empire - and all these fine people were born:

1858-0xxx George F. Brooks* engineer/real estate businessman - Boston, MA USA (1940/82) - Missoula Current 1858-01 1858-01 1858-0105 Anton von Alfthan* Finnish baron/industrialist - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1925/67) 1858-0107 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda* Hebrew lexicographer/ newspaper editor/helped revive the Hebrew language - Luzhki, Vilna Governate, Russian Empire (1922/64) 1858-0109 Elizabeth Gertrude Britton* botanist/bryologist - New York, NY USA (1934/76) 1858-01 1858-01 1858-0114 Patrick Joseph Kennedy* businessman/ politician/grandfather of JFK - Boston, MA USA (1929/71) 1858-0115 Albert W. Gilchrist* politician/ Governor of Florida - Greenwood, SC USA (1926/68) 1858-0115 Archibald Gracie IV* writer/passenger aboard RMS Titanic /the first adult survivor to die - Mobile, AL USA (1912/54) 1858-0120 1858-0122 Frederick Lugard* British soldier/explorer of Africa/colonial administrator - Madras, British India (1945/87) 1858-0125 Alma Suppanen* (b Bonsdorff) translator - Jokioinen, GD of Finland (1937/78) 1858-01 1858-0128 Eugène Dubois* paleoanthropologist/ geologist - Eijsden, Netherlands (1940/82) 1858-01 1858-02 1858-02 1858-0205 Aukusti Kallio* lexigographer - Uusikaupunki, GD of Finland (1896/38) 1858-0206 Ada Roe* supercentenarian - England (1970/111) 1858-0208 Pauline Einstein* (b Koch) German housemother/mother of Albert Einstein - Cannstadt, Würtemburg (1920/62) 1858-0211 Axel Ringström* engineer/ clairvoyant - Loviisa, GD of Finland (1945/87) 1858-0212 Clara Lanza* (b Hammond) novelist - Fort Riley, Kansas Territory, USA (1939/81) 1858-02 1858-0215 William Henry Pickering* astronomer - Boston, MA USA (1938/79) 1858-02 1858-0221 Oldfield Thomas* zoologist - Millbrook, Bedfordshire, England (1929/71) 1858-0222 Albin Koponen* pharmacist/ medicine industrialist/inventor - Joensuu, GD of Finland (1917/59) 1858-02 1858-03 1858-03 1858-03 1858-0310 H. W. Fowler* schoolmaster/ lexicographer - Tonbridge, Kent, England (1933/75) 1858-0312 Adolph Ochs* newspaper publisher/former owner of The New York Times - Cincinnati, OH USA (1935/77) 1858-0313 Maximilien Luce* painter/engraver/activist - Paris, France (1941/82) 1858-0315 Liberty Hyde Bailey* horticulturist/ reformer of rural life/cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science - South Haven, MI USA (1954/96) 1858-0315 Franz Böckli* sport shooter/OGt - Switzerzerland (1937/78) 1858-0318 Rudolf Diesel* mechanical engineer/inventor (diesel engine & diesel fuel) - Paris, Kingdom of France (1913/55) 1858-0320 1858-0323 Ludwig Quidde* German politician/ pacifist/N - Free City of Bremen (1941/82) 1858-0325 1858-0331 1858-04 1858-0404 Peter Woldemar Hannikainen* forester/ civil servant - Parikkala, GD of Finland (1928/70) 1858-0415 Émile Durkheim* sociologist - Épinal, Second French Empire (1917/59) 1858-04 1858-0423 Max Planck* physicist/N - Kiel,  Duchy of Holstein (1947/89) 1858-0423 Pandita Ramabai* scholar/ social reformer/  - Canaa District, Madras, British India (1922/63) 1858-04 1858-04 1858-0502 Edith Somerville* Irish novelist - Corfu, United States of the Ionian Islands (1949/91) 1858-0505 Aukusti Uotila* painter - Urjala, GD of Finland (1886/27) 1858-05 1858-05 1858-05 1858-0601 1858-0605 Alma Forstén* (b Lönnroth) one of the leaders of Marttaliitto/social activist - Orimattila, GD of Finland (1931/72) 1858-0605 Olga Forsten* (b Lönnroth) twin of Alma/choir leader/social activist - Orimattila, GD of Finland (1918/60) 1858-0605 Carl Swartz* Swedish politician/PM - Norrköping, Sweden-Norway (1926/68) 1858-0610 1858-0611 Bertha Witting* playwright - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1941/83) 1858-0612 Henry Scott Tuke* painter - York, England (1929/70) 1858-0613 1858-0615 Eleanor Sophia Smith* composer/music educator -  Atlanta, IL USA (1942/84) 1858-0616 John Peter Russell* impressionist painter - Sydney, NSW, Australia (1930/71) 1858-0620 Adolf Neovius* priest/ historian - Uusikaupunki, GD of Finland (1913/55) 1858-0622 1858-0623 Antoine Marfan* pediatrician - Castelnaudary, Second French Empire (1942/83) 1858-0625 Charles Bergstresser* journalist/co-founder of Dow Jones & Company– Berrysburg, PA USA (1923/65) 1858-0627 1858-0630 1858-0701 Velma Caldwell Melville* editor/writer - Vernon County, WI USA (1924/66) 1858-0701 Willard Metcalf* painter - Lowell, MA USA (1925/66) 1858-0710 1858-0714 Emmeline Pankhurst* leader of the British suffragette movement - Manchester, England  (1928/69) 1858-0720 1858-0724 Wolfgang Kapp* lawyer/ political activist/to Germany at age 12 - New York City, NY USA (1922/63) 1858-0727 George Lyon* golfer/OG - Richmond, Canada West (1938/79) 1858-0731 1858-0801 Hans Rott* organist/ composer - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1884/25) 1858-0805 1858-0807 Wilho Sipilä* Lutheran clergyman/politician - Vahto, GD of Finland (1917/58) 1858-0811 Christiaan Eijkman* physician/research in vitamins/N - Nijkerk, Netherlands (1930/72) 1858-0815 E. Nesbit* author/writer of children’s books/political activist - Kennington, Surrey, England (1924/65) 1858-0820 1858-0822 1858-0827 Giuseppe Peano* mathematician/ glottologist/author - Spinetta, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia (1932/73) 1858-0831 1858-0901 Carl Auer von Welsbach* chemist (rare-earth elements)/inventor (lighting improvements) - Vienna, Austrian Empire (1929/70) 1858-0910 1858-0914 Jakob Knudsen* Danish clergyman/author/educator - Rødding, Denmark (1917/58) 1858-0915 Emma Augusta Sharkey* journalist/writer/ dime novelist - Rochester, NY USA 1858-0915 Maria Stolpe* (b Simolin) - Porvoo, GD of Finland (1928/69) 1858-0916 Carl August Ehrensvärd* Navy admiral/ politician/M - Tosterup Castle, Sweden-Norway (1944/85) 1858-0916 Bonar Law* British politician/PM of the United Kingdom - Kingston, Colony of New Brunswick (1923/65) 1858-0920 1858-0925 Albrecht Penck* German geographer/ geologist - Reudnitz, Kingdom of Saxony (1945/86) 1858-0927 Þorsteinn Erlingsson* Icelandic poet - Stóra-Mörk, Eyjafjöll, Iceland (1914/56) 1858-0930 1858-1001 Aadam Leino* editor/ writer/translator - Koski HI, GD of Finland (1897/39) 1858-1003 Eleonora Duse* Italian actress - Vigevano, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire (1924/65) 1858-1004 Alfred Oswald Kairamo* (b Kihlman) botanist/politician - Pietarsaari, GD of Finland (1938/79) 1858-1005 Helen Churchill Candee* author/journalist/RMS Titanic survivor - New York City, NY USA (1949/90) 1858-1007 1858-1008 Marie van Zandt* opera singer - New York City, NY USA (1919/61) 1858-1011 Nils Kreuger* Swedish painter - Kalmar, Sweden-Norway (1930/71) 1858-1012 1858-1015 John L. Sullivan* boxer/ the “Boston Strong Boy” - Boston, MA USA (1918/59) 1858-1018 Katri Kortesuo* (b Kuhlberg) teacher/ writer - Tampere, GD of Finland (1941/82) 1858-1024 Ebba Bernadotte* (b Munck af Fulkila) Swedish noble/titular princess as the spouse of Prince Oscar Bernadotte - Jönköping, Sweden-Norway (1946/87) 1858-1027 Theodore Roosevelt* politician/N/26usp - New York, NY USA (1919/60) 1858-1101 Ludwig von Struve* Baltic German astronomer - Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire (1920/62) 1858-11 1858-11 1858-11 1858-1120 Selma Lagerlöf* author/teacher/N - Mårbacka, Värmland, Sweden-Norway (1940/81) 1858-1130 Jagadish Chandra Bose* polymath/biophysicist/ archaeologist - Bikrampur, Bengal, British India (1937/78) 1858-12 1858-12 1858-1204 Grace Frankland* microbiologist - Wimbledon, England (1946/87) 1858-1204 Chester Greenwood* inventor/ business developer - Farmington, ME USA (1937/78) 1858-1206 Hans Schinz* explorer/botanist - Zürich, Switzerland (1941/82) 1858-1209 Juho Pöksyläinen* farmer/ historian/genealogist - Kiuruvesi, GD of Finland (1939/80) 1858-12 1858-1227 Juan Luis Sanfuentes* lawyer/ politician/P - Santiago, Chile (1930/71) 1858-0 1858-0 1858-0 Updated 2025-0424 Helsinki Search for another year here Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March