Editing 1837 (section)

== Births ==

===January–June===
[[File:JohnPierpontMorgan.png|thumb|110px|[[J. P. Morgan]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Mily Balakirev]], Russian composer (d. [[1910]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Thomas Henry Ismay]], English shipowner (''White Star Line'') (d. [[1899]])
* [[February 5]]
** [[Dwight L. Moody]], American evangelist (d. [[1899]])
** [[Edward Miner Gallaudet]], American educator of the deaf (d. [[1917]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Valentin Zubiaurre]], Spanish composer (d. [[1914]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Samuel Swett Green]], American librarian, advocate (d. [[1918]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Nakamuta Kuranosuke]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1916]])
* [[March 1]] – [[William Dean Howells]], American writer, historian, editor, and politician (d. [[1920]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Jacques Duchesne]], French general (d. [[1918]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Henry Draper]], American physician and astronomer (d. [[1882]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Grover Cleveland]], 22nd and 24th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1908]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione]] (d. [[1899]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Charles Wyndham (actor)|Sir Charles Wyndham]], English actor, theatrical manager (d. [[1919]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Fox sisters|Kate Fox]], American medium (d. [[1892]])
* [[April 1]] – [[Luis Francisco Benítez de Lugo y Benítez de Lugo]] (d. [[1876]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]], English poet (d. [[1909]])
* [[April 17]] – [[J. P. Morgan]], American financier, banker (d. [[1913]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Fredrik Bajer]], Danish politician, pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1922]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Queen Cheorin]], Korean queen (d. [[1878]]) 
* [[April 29]] – [[Georges Ernest Boulanger]], French general, politician (d. [[1891]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Anna Maria Mozzoni]], Italian feminist, founder of the Italian women's movement (d. [[1920]])
** [[Theodor Rosetti]], 16th Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1923]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Karl Mauch]], German explorer (d. [[1875]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Adam Opel]], German engineer, industrialist (d. [[1895]])
** [[Ben Hall (bushranger)|Ben Hall]], Australian bushranger (d. [[1865]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Wild Bill Hickok]], American gunfighter (d. [[1876]])
* [[May 28]]
** [[George Ashlin]], Irish architect (d. [[1921]])
** [[Tony Pastor]], American impresario, theater owner (d. [[1908]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Paul Bachmann]], German mathematician (d. [[1920]])
** [[Paul Morphy]], American chess player (d. [[1884]])
** [[Touch the Clouds]], Native American [[Miniconjou]] chief (d. [[1905]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Petre P. Carp]], 2-time prime minister of Romania (d. [[1919]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Anna Filosovova.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Anna Filosofova]]]]
[[File:John Leary 01.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Leary (politician)|John Leary]]]]
[[File:Elisabeth-Österreich-1867.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]]]]
* [[July 4]] – [[Carolus-Duran]], French painter (d. [[1917]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]], [[Queen consort of Portugal]] (d. [[1859]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Vasil Levski]], Bulgarian revolutionary (d. [[1873]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Johanna Hedén]], Swedish midwife, surgeon (d. 1912)
* [[August 1]] – ''(bapt.)'' [[Mary Harris Jones]] ("Mother Jones"), Irish-American labor leader (d. [[1930]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Anna Filosofova]], Russian women's rights activist (d. [[1912]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Théodore Dubois]], French composer (d. [[1924]])
* [[September 2]] – [[James H. Wilson]], Union Army [[major general]] in the [[American Civil War]] (d. [[1925]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse]] (d. [[1892]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Nikolai Bugaev]], Russian mathematician (d.[[1903]])
* [[September 16]] – King [[Pedro V of Portugal]] (d. [[1861]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos]], Portuguese Archbishop of Goa (d. [[1880]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Mark Hanna]], [[United States Senator]] from [[Ohio]] (d. [[1904]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Nicolás Avellaneda]], Argentine president (d. [[1885]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Auguste-Réal Angers]], Canadian judge and politician, 6th [[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]] (d. [[1919]])
* [[October 5]] – [[José Plácido Caamaño]], 12th President of Ecuador (d. [[1900]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Robert Gould Shaw]], Union Army general in the American Civil War, social reformer (k. [[1863]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Carl Koldewey]], German explorer famous for the [[German North Polar Expedition]] (d. [[1908]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], Japanese ''[[shōgun]]'', 15th and last of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] (d. [[1913]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shimamoto |first1=Mayako |last2=Ito |first2=Koji |last3=Sugita |first3=Yoneyuki |title=Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy |date=1 July 2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-5067-3 |pages=297–298 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g8PyCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA298 |language=en |access-date=October 29, 2023 |archive-date=October 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006153719/https://books.google.com/books?id=g8PyCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA298 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[October 29]] – [[Harriet Powers]], African-American folk artist  (d. [[1910]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Émile Bayard]], French artist, illustrator (d. [[1891]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Arnold Janssen]], German-born Catholic priest, saint (d. [[1909]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Lewis Waterman]], American inventor, businessman (d.[[1901]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1923]])
* December (unknown date) – [[Bella French Swisher]], American writer (d. [[1893]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Kabayama Sukenori]], Japanese ''samurai'', general, and statesman (d. [[1922]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Webster Paulson]], English civil engineer (d. [[1887]])
* [[December 15]] – [[George B. Post]], American architect (d. [[1913]])
* [[December 24]]
** [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]], wife of Emperor [[Franz Joseph I]] (d. [[1898]])
** [[Cosima Wagner]], wife of German composer [[Richard Wagner]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[December 26]]
** [[William Boyd Dawkins|Sir William Dawkins]], British geologist (d. [[1929]])
** [[George Dewey]], American admiral (d. [[1917]])