Year (''' MDCCCLVIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 7 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda , Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d. 1922 )
- January 10 - Heinrich Zille , German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929 )
- January 11 - Harry Gordon Selfridge , American department store magnate (d. 1947 )
- February 15 - John Joseph Montgomery , American glider pioneer (d. 1911 )
- March 10 - Kokichi Mikimoto , Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954 )
- March 18 - Rudolf Diesel , German inventor (d. 1913 )
- March 23 - Ludwig Quidde , German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941 )
- April 23 - Max Planck , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947 )
- April 30 - Mary Dimmick Harrison , wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1948 )
- June 16
- --- King Gustaf V Of Sweden (d. 1950 )
- --- William Dickson Boyce , founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1929 )
- July 9 - Franz Boas , German anthropologist (d. 1942 )
- August 1 - Hans Rott , Austrian composer (d. 1884 )
- August 2 - Emma Of Waldeck And Pyrmont , Dutch Queen and regent (d. 1934 )
- August 11 - Christiaan Eijkman , Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1930 )
- August 19 - Alfred Dyke Acland , British military officer (d. 1937 )
- August 27 - Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician (d. 1932 )
- September 1 - Andrew Jackson Zilker , American philanthropist (d. 1934 )
- September 16 - Andrew Bonar Law , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1923 )
- October 3 - Eleonora Duse , Italian actress (d. 1924 )
- October 19 - George Albert Boulenger , Belgian naturalist (d. 1937 )
- October 27 - Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President Of The United States , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919 )
- November 20 - Selma Lagerlöf , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940 )
- November 26 - Katharine Drexel , Roman Catholic Saint
- November 30 - Jagdish Chandra Bose , Indian physicist (d. 1937 )
- December 22 - Giacomo Puccini , Italian composer (d. 1924 )
- December 25 - Herman P. Faris , American temperance movement leader (d. 1936 )
- ''date unknown'' - Percy Andreae , American anti-prohibition leader.
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