Famous people born in 1858

Dhondo Keshav Karve was an eminent Indian social reformer and educator who championed the cause of women education and remarriage of Hindu widows

Mihajlo Pupin was a scientist who hailed from Serbia and is renowned for his patented works

Émile Durkheim was a famous French philosopher and sociologist

Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath, physicist, botanist and considered to be one of the fathers of radio science

Max Plank was a German physicist who gave the quantum theory of physics

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer who still lives in the hearts of music lovers through his memorable operas

Emmeline Pankhurst was a leader of the British suffragette movement

Andrew Bonar Law was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister, often referred to as the ‘Unknown Prime Minister’

Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician, who is known for his work on the disease beriberi

Edmond François Aman-Jean was a French symbolist painter, pastellist, engraver and lithographer, who set up the Salon des Tuileries