Editing 1858 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 2 – [[Bernard Sachs]] (died [[1944 in science|1944]]), [[Americans|American]] [[neurologist]].
* January 9 – [[Elizabeth Gertrude Britton]], née Knight (died [[1934 in science|1934]]), American [[botanist]].
* January 28 – [[Eugène Dubois]] (died [[1940 in science|1940]]), [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[paleoanthropology|paleoanthropologist]].
* February 7 – [[Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate (anthropologist)|Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate]] (died [[1931 in science|1931]]), Dutch [[anthropologist]].
* March 18 – [[Rudolf Diesel]] (died [[1913 in science|1913]]), [[Germans|German]] [[mechanical engineer]].
* March 27 – [[Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer]] (died [[1945 in science|1945]]), German [[physician]] and [[bacteriologist]].
* April 23 – [[Max Planck]] (died [[1947 in science|1947]]), German [[theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]].
* May 19 – [[Thomas Allinson]] (died [[1918 in science|1918]]), [[English people|English]] physician and dietetic reformer.
* May 28 – [[T. H. E. C. Espin]] (died [[1934 in science|1934]]), English [[astronomer]], scientist and clergyman.
* July 9 – [[Franz Boas]] (died [[1942 in science|1942]]), German-born [[anthropologist]].
* August 11 – [[Christiaan Eijkman]] (died [[1930 in science|1930]]), Dutch [[physiologist]].
* August 19 – [[Ellen Willmott]] (died [[1934 in science|1934]]), English [[horticulturist]].
* August 27 – [[Giuseppe Peano]] (died [[1932 in science|1932]]), [[Italians|Italian]] [[mathematician]].
* October 4 – [[Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin]] (died [[1935 in science|1935]]), [[Banat]]-born [[physicist]].
* November 1 – [[Ludwig Struve]] (died [[1920 in science|1920]]), [[Russia]]n astronomer.
* November 30 – [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]] (died [[1937 in science|1937]]), [[Bengali people|Bengali]] physicist.
* [[Laura Forster]] (died [[1917 in science|1917]]), [[Australians|Australian]] physician.