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== Births == === January–March === [[File:LJB9 - Otto von Below.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Otto von Below]]]] [[File:Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Heinrich Hertz]]]] [[File:Papst Pius XI. 1JS.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Pope Pius XI]]]] [[File:ANNIE MARIA BARNES.jpg|thumb|110px|Annie Maria Barnes]] * [[January 2]] – [[Uryū Sotokichi]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1937]]) * [[January 4]] – [[Émile Courtet]], French caricaturist, animator (d. [[1938]]) * [[January 12]] **[[Knut Ångström]], Swedish physicist (d. [[1910]]) **[[Léon de Witte de Haelen]], Belgian general (d. [[1933]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Anastasios Papoulas]], Greek general (d. [[1935]]) * [[January 18]] – [[Otto von Below]], German general (d. [[1944]]) * [[January 26]] – The [[12th Dalai Lama]] of Tibet (d. [[1875]]) * [[January 31]] – [[George Jackson Churchward]], British chief mechanical engineer of the [[Great Western Railway]](d. [[1933]]) * [[February 1]] – [[Lucy Wheelock]], American early childhood education pioneer within the kindergarten movement (d. [[1946]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Almanzo Wilder|Almanzo James Wilder]], American writer (d. [[1949]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Dmitry Shcherbachev]], Russian general (d. [[1932]]) * [[February 22]] ** [[Robert Baden-Powell]], English founder of the [[Scouting]] movement (d. [[1941]]) ** [[Heinrich Hertz]], German physicist (d. [[1894]]) * [[March 4]] **[[Constantin Coandă]], Romanian general and politician, 26th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (d. [[1932]]) **[[Aleksei Evert]], Russian general (d. [[1918]] or [[1926]]) * [[March 6]] – [[George Dayton]], American businessman, founder of [[Target Corporation]] (d. [[1938]]) * [[March 7]] ** [[Genevieve Stebbins]], American performer of the Delsarte system of expression (d. [[1934]]) ** [[Julius Wagner-Jauregg]], Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1940]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer]], British general (d. [[1932]]) * [[March 15]] – [[Christian Michelsen]], 1st Prime Minister of Norway (d. [[1925]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Hunter Liggett]], American general (d. [[1935]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Paul Doumer]], President of France (d. [[1932]]) * [[March 26]] – [[Théodore Tuffier]], French surgeon (d. [[1929]]) * [[March 27]] ** [[Ella Hepworth Dixon]], English author and editor (d. [[1932]]) ** [[Karl Pearson]], English statistician (d. [[1936]]) * [[March 30]] – [[Léon Charles Thévenin]], French telegraph engineer (d. [[1926]]) === April–June === * [[April 5]] – [[Alexander of Battenberg]], first Prince of Bulgaria (d. [[1893]]) * [[April 14]] ** [[Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom]], youngest child of [[Queen Victoria]] (d. [[1944]]) ** [[Victor Horsley]], English physician, surgeon (d. [[1916]]) * [[April 22]] – [[Paul Dresser]], American songwriter (d. [[1906]]) * [[April 23]] – [[Ruggero Leoncavallo]], Italian composer (d. [[1919]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Walter Simon (philanthropist)|Walter Simon]], German philanthropist (d. [[1920]]) * [[May 1]] – [[Theo van Gogh (art dealer)|Theo van Gogh]], Dutch art dealer (d. [[1891]]) * [[May 7]] – [[William A. MacCorkle]], Governor of West Virginia (d. [[1930]]) * [[May 10]] – [[Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel]], Austro-Hungarian general (d. [[1938]]) * [[May 13]] – [[Ronald Ross]], English physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1932]]) * [[May 15]] – [[Williamina Fleming]], Scottish astronomer (d. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Deborah|last1=Todd|first2=Joseph|last2=Angelo|title=A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy|location=New York|publisher=Facts of File|year=2003|page=118|isbn=978-0-81604-639-3}}</ref> * [[May 19]] – [[John Jacob Abel]], American pharmacologist (d. [[1938]]) * [[May 24]] – [[Richard Mansfield]], Anglo-American stage actor (d. [[1907]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Theodor Curtius]], German chemist (d. [[1928]]) * [[May 28]] ** [[Annie Maria Barnes]], American author of children's literature (unknown year of death) ** [[Robert C. Hilliard (actor)|Robert C. Hilliard]], American stage actor (d. [[1927]]) * [[June 2]] ** [[Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen]], Norwegian admiral and industry leader (d. [[1943]]) ** [[Edward Elgar]], English composer (d. [[1934]]) ** [[Karl Adolph Gjellerup]], Danish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1919]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Lawrence Marston]], American actor, playwright and film director (d. [[1939]]) * [[June 10]] – Caroline Louise Dudley (later [[Mrs. Leslie Carter]]), American stage actress (d. [[1937]]) * [[June 12]] – [[Kate Lester]], English stage & silent screen actress (d. [[1924]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Arthur Arz von Straußenburg]], Austro-Hungarian general (d. [[1935]]) * [[June 20]] – [[Mary Gage Day]], American physician (d. [[1935]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Friedrich von Ingenohl]], German admiral (d. [[1933]]) === July–September === [[File:DOROTHEA LUMMIS A woman of the century (page 488 crop).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[Martha Hughes Cannon]], American politician (d. [[1932]]) * [[July 5]] – [[Clara Zetkin]], German-born Marxist theorist, activist and women's rights advocate (d. [[1933]]) * [[July 11]] – [[Alfred Binet]], French psychologist ([[Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales]]) (d. [[1911]]) * [[July 14]] – [[Vittorio Ranuzzi de' Bianchi]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (d. [[1927]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi]], Indian Islamic scholar (d. [[1911]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Carl Meinhof]], German linguist (d. [[1944]]) * [[July 24]] ** [[Henrik Pontoppidan]], Danish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1943]]) ** [[Juan Vicente Gómez]], [[President of Venezuela]] (d. [[1935]]) * [[July 25]] – [[Nat Goodwin]], American actor (d. [[1919]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Ballington Booth]], British-born American [[Salvation Army]] officer, co-founder of [[Volunteers of America]] (d. [[1940]]) * [[July 30]] ** [[Lucy Bacon]], California [[Impressionist]] painter (d. [[1932]]) ** [[Thorstein Veblen]], American economist (d. [[1929]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]], American geologist, paleontologist and eugenist (d. [[1935]]) * [[August 14]] – [[Max Wagenknecht]], German composer (d. [[1922]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Albert Ballin]], German shipping magnate, owner of the [[Hamburg America Line]] (d. [[1918]]) * [[August 16]] – [[Ioan Popovici (divisional general)|Ioan Popovici]], Romanian general (d. [[1956]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Sergei Sheydeman]], Russian general (d. [[1922]]) * [[August 27]] – [[Oskar von Hutier]], German general (d. [[1934]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]], Russian scientist, inventor (d. [[1935]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Georg Michaelis]], 6th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1936]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Milton S. Hershey]], American chocolate manufacturer (d. [[1945]]) * [[September 15]] – [[William Howard Taft]], 27th [[President of the United States]] and 10th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[1930]]) * [[September 18]] – [[John Hessin Clarke]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1945]]) * [[September 20]] – [[Antoine de Mitry]], French general (d. [[1924]]) * [[September 28]] – [[Lewis Bayly (Royal Navy officer)|Lewis Bayly]], British admiral (d. [[1938]]) === October–December === * [[October 2]] **[[Martinus Theunis Steyn]], Boer lawyer, politician and statesman, sixth and last President of the [[Orange Free State]] (1896–1902) (d. [[1916]]) **[[A. E. Waite]], British occultist (d. [[1942]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich]], Irish language writer (d. [[1942]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Joseph Rucker Lamar]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1916]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Ned Williamson]], American baseball player (d. [[1894]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Ernst Trygger]], 19th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[1943]]) * [[November 5]] ** [[Joseph Tabrar]], British songwriter (d. [[1931]]) ** [[Ida Tarbell]], American journalist (d. [[1944]]) * [[November 9]] – [[Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore]], American physician (d. [[1942]]) * [[November 14]] – [[Mihail Savov]], Bulgarian general (d. [[1928]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Mikhail Alekseyev]], Russian general (d. [[1918]]) * [[November 17]] – [[George Marchant]], English-born inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist (d. [[1941]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Ferdinand de Saussure]], Swiss linguist (d. [[1913]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Charles Scott Sherrington]], English physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1952]]) * [[November 28]] – King [[Alfonso XII of Spain]] (d. [[1885]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Theodor Escherich]], German pediatrician (d. [[1911]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Joseph Conrad]], Polish-British novelist (d. [[1924]]) * [[December 4]] – [[Julia Evelyn Ditto Young]], American poet and novelist (d. [[1915]]) ===Date unknown=== * [[Marguerite Merington]], English-born American author (d. [[1951]])
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