* April 1 – John A. Hobson, English economist ( b. 1858 ).

John Atkinson Hobson ( 6 July 1858 – 1 April 1940 ), commonly known as John A. Hobson or J.

* John Atkinson Hobson ( 1858 – 1940 )

He attended Harvard College, graduating in 1858, along with classmates Henry Hobson Richardson and Henry Adams.

* 1917 – Valerie Hobson, British actress ( d. 1998 )

* 1936 – Michael Hobson, American publisher

* 1951 – Denys Hobson, South African cricketer

* April 27 – Henry Hobson Richardson, prominent American architect ( b. 1838 )

* September 26 – William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand ( d. 1842 )

* September 10 – William Hobson 1st governor general of nz / treaty of waitangi writer ( b. 26 September 1792 )

* January 1 – Thomas Hobson, English carrier and origin of the phrase " Hobson's choice " ( b. 1544 )

* New Zealand-The only person to have held the rank of Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand was Royal Navy Captain William Hobson from 1839 – 1841 when New Zealand colony was a dependency of the colony of New South Wales, governed at that time by Sir George Gipps.

* Richmond Pearson Hobson – Deceased member of the United States House of Representatives and Medal of Honor recipient.

Although the Treaty was considered to be Māori consenting to British sovereignty over the whole country, the actual proclamation of sovereignty was made by Hobson on 21 May 1840 ( the North Island by treaty and the South by discovery – Hobson was unaware his agents were collecting signatures for the Treaty in the South Island at this stage ).

* Cherel, Y., Bocher, P., De Broyer, C., Hobson, K. A., ( 2002 ) " Food and feeding ecology of the sympatric thin-billed Pachyptila belcheri and Antarctic P. desolata prions at Iles Kerguelen, Southern Indian Ocean " Marine Ecology Progress Series 228: 263 – 281

Valerie Hobson ( 14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998 ) was a British actress who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s.

A garden yields the first sign of life Hobson has found – a worm dug up from the soil.

Hobson decides he perished before the Effect – as dead animal tissue did not vanish.

Api heard the same sound that Hobson heard – albeit earlier in the day and coming from the side of the lake that Hobson was standing on.

Api goes skin-diving for shellfish – he pretends to drown as a joke, and Hobson reacts unconsciously by holding the other man's head underwater.

Captain William Hobson RN ( 26 September 1792 – 10 September 1842 ) was the first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi.

* Hobson, W. Papers, 1833 – 1846.

* Moon, P. Hobson: governor of New Zealand, 1840 – 1842.

Contraband ( 1940 ) is a wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which brought stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson together again after their success in The Spy in Black the previous year.

* Edward H. Hobson — Union Army general during the American Civil War

Hobson, however, who links under-consumption to a misdistribution of purchasing power, Porter argues that " the best thing that Britain could have done to correct balance of payments would have been to make her export industry more competitive — improve her methods of manufacturing and marketing in order to sell more abroad.

* Gary Hobson — Kyle Chandler

* Bernie Hobson — William Devane

* Lois Hobson — Tess Harper

* Bulmer Hobson and the Nationalist Movement in Twentieth — Century Ireland, Marnie Hay, MUP, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7190-7987-0.

It had previously held office by a ten-seat margin — the drop was a result of losing the Hobson seat to Social Credit's Vernon Cracknell.

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1981 provincial election, defeating Liberal Dave Hobson by just under 3, 000 votes in the constituency of Hastings — Peterborough.

* Victor Hobson — NFL player for the Arizona Cardinals ( 1998 )

Hobson then joined Marvel Comics as publisher — a post that he held for over fifteen years.

* 1916 — George Hobson Steer joins the Edmonton law firm of Rutherford, Jamieson & Grant, a predecessor of Milner Fenerty, and the firm is renamed Rutherford, Jamieson, Grant & Steer.

Notably, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in their 1953 article The Imperialism of Free Trade would argue that Hobson placed too much emphasis on the role of formal empire and directly ruled colonial possessions, not taking into account the significance of trading power, political influence and informal imperialism.

Lieutenant William Hobson, following instructions of the British government, in 1840 pronounced the southern island of New Zealand to be uninhabited by civilised peoples, which qualified the land to be " terra nullius ", and therefore fit for the Crown's political occupation.

The local councillors for Epsom suburb are split across two council wards, the Eden-Albert Ward represented by a majority of centre-left leaning City Vision ( Auckland political ticket ) councillors, and Hobson Ward, which is served by centre-right leaning Citizens and Ratepayers Now councillors.

The USDA also created a Foreign Agricultural Service Division within the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to serve as the FAS's headquarters staff in Washington, D. C., naming Asher Hobson, a noted economist and political scientist, as its first head.

The 1858 senate campaign featured the seven Lincoln – Douglas debates of 1858, the most famous political debates in American history.

* 1858 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician ( d. 1932 )

* 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, ( d. 1934 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer ( d. 1884 )

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

* 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

* Adrian Kashchenko ( 1858 – 1921 ), Ukrainian writer, historian of Zaporozhian Cossacks

* 1858 – E. Nesbit, English author ( d. 1924 )

* 1858 – U. S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* 1858 – Arthur Achleitner, German writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria ( d. 1889 )

* Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia ( 1842 – 1858 )

* 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England.

* 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.

* 1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.

* 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1930 )