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Famous People Born in 1858
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
U.S. President / 1858 - 1919
Theodore Roosevelt, naturalist and 26th President of the United States, expanded powers of the presidency and supported public interest in the face big business.
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Franz Boas
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Franz Boas
Scientist, Academic Author / 1858 - 1942
Anthropologist Franz Boas helped shape and establish the study of anthropology. He wrote about racism and culture and was widely published.
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Daniel Hale Williams
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Daniel Hale Williams
Surgeon / 1858 - 1931
Physician Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery in 1893 and founded the nation's first interracial hospital. -
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Songwriter / 1858 - 1924
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini started the operatic trend toward realism with his popular works La Boheme and Madame Butterfly. -
Emile Durkheim
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Emile Durkheim
Sociologist / 1858 - 1917
Émile Durkheim was a pioneer of French sociology and the author of The Division of Labour in Society and Suicide.
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Saint Katharine Drexel
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- Famous Nuns
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Saint Katharine Drexel
Nun / 1858 - 1955
Saint Katharine Drexel was the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters for Indians and Colored People (now Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament).
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Abigail and John Adams
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Abigail and John Adams
View groupDuring their courtship and marriage, John Adams and Abigail Smith Adams exchanged over 1,100 letters, many filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics considered an invaluable account of the Revolutionary War. Abigail, a fierce advocate of rights for women and African-Americans, was an important partner throughout John's political career. The couple lived on a farm in Quincy, Massachusetts, where they raised five children. Abigail died in 1818; John died in 1826, 16 months after their son, John Quincy Adams, was sworn in as the sixth President of the United States.
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Mobsters
Mobsters
View groupBootleggers, smugglers, drug dealers, hit men—all these occupations are the provenance of mobsters, who operate in ethnic, family and business networks. Mobsters' real life crimes, and Hollywood's fascination with them, has earned them a special place in the American imagination. From Al Capone's Chicago crime ring to Bugsy Siegel's Las Vegas racket, these mobsters have made their names notorious from coast to coast.
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