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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish writer (1858–1940)
Giacomo Puccini
Italian opera composer (1858–1924)
Émile Durkheim
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Rudolf Diesel
German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
Emmeline Pankhurst
English suffragist
Georg Simmel
German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858–1918)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Gustaf V of Sweden
King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician (1858–1930)
Giuseppe Peano
Italian mathematician (1858–1932)
Bonar Law
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
Omar al-Mukhtar
Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation (1858–1931)
Ludwig Quidde
German politician (1858-1941)
Remy de Gourmont
French writer (1858–1915)
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
Austrian archduke (1858-1889)
Eleonora Duse
Italian stage actress (1858-1924)
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
Lovis Corinth
German painter (1858–1925)
Kang Youwei
Chinese politician and scholar (1858-1927)
Maria Christina of Austria
Queen consort of Spain (1858-1929)
Marie Bashkirtseva
Ukrainian-French artist
Edith Nesbit
English author and poet (1858–1924)
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1858–1921)
Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas
British mammalogist (1858–1929)
William Henry Pickering
American astronomer (1858–1938)
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Queen consort of the Netherlands (r. 1879–1890)
Mihajlo Pupin
Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
Pandita Ramabai
Indian feminist historian and social reformer (1858–1922)
Michael Hainisch
President of Austria (1858–1940)
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Russian theatre director (1858-1943)
Beatrice Webb
English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer (1858–1943)
Eugène Ysaÿe
Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
Saitō Makoto
Prime Minister of Japan (1858-1936)
Albrecht Penck
German geologist and geographer (1858–1945)
George Albert Boulenger
Belgian-British zoologist (1858–1937), member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino from 1900
Eugène Dubois
Dutch paleoanthropologist (1858–1940)
André Antoine
French actor and director (1858–1943)
Ethel Smyth
English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)
Georges Courteline
French dramatist and novelist (1858-1929)
Carl Auer von Welsbach
Austrian scientist and inventor (1858-1929)
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia
Russian grand prince (1858-1915)
Gaetano Mosca
Italian political scientist and journalist (1858–1941)
Giovanni Segantini
Italian painter, neo-impressionist and symbolist (1858–1899)
John Atkinson Hobson
English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism (1858-1940)
Vincas Kudirka
Lithuanian writer, poet and physician (1858–1899)
Jan Toorop
Dutch painter (1858-1928)
May Robson
Australian-born American actress (1858-1942)
Liberty Hyde Bailey
U.S. botanist (1858-1954)
Mary Harrison McKee
daughter of President Benjamin Harrison (1858-1930)
Wolfgang Kapp
Prussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922)
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
American botanist (1858-1934)
Carl Swartz
Swedish 20th century prime minister (1858-1926)
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Belgian painter (1858–1921)
Cipriano Castro
Venezuelan politician (1858–1924)
Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
British colonial administrator (1858-1945)
Prince Henry of Battenberg
husband of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1858-1896)