This article is about the year 1862. For other uses, see 1862 (disambiguation).
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1830s 1840s 1850s – 1860s – 1870s 1880s 1890s |
Years: | 1859 1860 1861 – 1862 – 1863 1864 1865 |
1862 in topic: |
Humanities |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
By country |
Australia – Brazil - Canada – Denmark - France – Germany – Mexico – Norway - Philippines - Portugal– Russia - South Africa – Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom – United States |
Other topics |
Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
Lists of leaders |
Colonial Governors – State leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works category |
Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1862 MDCCCLXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2615 |
Armenian calendar | 1311 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6612 |
Bahá'í calendar | 18–19 |
Bengali calendar | 1269 |
Berber calendar | 2812 |
British Regnal year | 25 Vict. 1 – 26 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2406 |
Burmese calendar | 1224 |
Byzantine calendar | 7370–7371 |
Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4558 or 4498 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4559 or 4499 |
Coptic calendar | 1578–1579 |
Discordian calendar | 3028 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1854–1855 |
Hebrew calendar | 5622–5623 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1918–1919 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1784–1785 |
- Kali Yuga | 4963–4964 |
Holocene calendar | 11862 |
Igbo calendar | 862–863 |
Iranian calendar | 1240–1241 |
Islamic calendar | 1278–1279 |
Japanese calendar | Bunkyū 2 (文久2年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4195 |
Minguo calendar | 50 before ROC 民前50年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2404–2405 |
1862 (MDCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Julian calendar, the 1862nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 862nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1860s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1862 is 12 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. This year was named by Mitchell Stephens as the greatest year to read newspapers.
Contents
Events
January–March
- January 1 – Britain annexes Lagos Island in modern-day Nigeria.
- January 6 – French, Spanish, and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, beginning the French intervention in Mexico.
- January 10 – John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California, is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford.
- January 30 – American Civil War: The first US ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched.
- January 31 – Alvan Graham Clark makes the first observation of Sirius B, a white dwarf star, through an eighteen-inch telescope at Northwestern University.
- February 1 – American Civil War: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly.
- February 2 – First railway opens in New Zealand, by Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company.
- February 6 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.
- February 11–16 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Donelson: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee, capturing it on the last day.
- February 20 – Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, named director of Spain's Real Academia Española.
- February 21 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
- February 22 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated in Richmond, Virginia, to a 6-year term as president of the Confederate States of America.
- March 7 – American Civil War: The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Confederates are shut out of Missouri.
- March 8 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia; the Battle of Hampton Roads starts the same day.
- March 9 – American Civil War: First battle between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, begins.
- March 13
- American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
- A smallpox epidemic in San Francisco spreads to British Columbia.[1]
- March 28 – American Civil War – Battle of Glorieta Pass: In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory (the battle began on March 26).
- c. March 31 – Publication of Victor Hugo's epic French historical novel Les Misérables begins.
April–June
- April 1 – The Spanish and the British end their alliance with France in the French intervention in Mexico.
- April 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Yorktown: The battle begins when Union forces under General George B. McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
- April 6 – American Civil War: In Tennessee, the Battle of Shiloh begins.
- April 7 – American Civil War – Battle of Shiloh: The Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
- April 12 – American Civil War – Andrew's Raid – Union volunteers steal a Confederate locomotive, setting off the Great Locomotive Chase, famously involving the use of The General steam locomotive, which still exists in the 21st century.
- April 13 – Government of Vietnam is forced to cede the territories of Biên Hòa, Gia Định and Định Tường to France.
- April 25 – American Civil War – Capture of New Orleans: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans.
- April 26 – American Civil War: The besieged Confederate garrison at Fort Macon, North Carolina surrenders.
- May 1– November 1 – 1862 International Exhibition held at South Kensington in London; particularly noted for an exhibit from Japan influential in the development of Anglo-Japanese style.[2]
- May 2 – The California State Normal School (later San Jose State University) is created by an Act of the California Legislature.
- May 5 – French intervention in Mexico – Battle of Puebla: Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza defeats the French Army; commemorated each year as "Cinco de Mayo" (Spanish: "Fifth of May").
- May 11 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
- May 15 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed U.S. Department of Agriculture).
- May 20 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
- May 24 – Westminster Bridge is opened in England. This new bridge designed by Thomas Page had replaced the old bridge.
- June 1 – American Civil War – Battle of Fair Oaks. Both sides claim victory.
- June 4 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for U.S. Army troops to capture Memphis, Tennessee.
- June 5 – Treaty of Saigon: Emperor Tự Đức of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam cedes Saigon, Côn Sơn Island and three southern provinces of what is to become known as Cochinchina (Biên Hòa, Gia Định, and Định Tường) to become part of the French colonial empire. Guerilla leader Trương Định refuses to recognise the treaty.
- June 6 – American Civil War – Battle of Memphis: U.S. Army troops capture Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederate States
- June 8 – American Civil War – Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate troops under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a U.S. Army attack on the James Peninsula that was led by General George B. McClellan.
- June 12 – John Winter Robinson, the Secretary of State of Kansas, is convicted and removed from office as the result of a bond scandal, becoming the first state executive official to be impeached and removed from office in American history.
- June 26 – American Civil War – Battle of Mechanicsville: Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the troops of General George B. McClellan in the first of the Seven Days Battles.
July–September
- July 1
- The Bureau of Internal Revenue, the forerunner of the Internal Revenue Service, is established in the United States.
- Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railroad Acts, authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.[3]
- The Russian State Library is founded as The Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
- July 2 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Morrill Land-Grant Act into law, creating a system of land-grant colleges to teach agricultural and mechanical sciences across the United States.
- July 4 – Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) extemporises the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowboat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow.
- July 16 – American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first rear admiral in the U.S. Navy
- July 18 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
- July 23 – American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
- August 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
- August 6 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with the USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- August 9 – American Civil War – Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
- August 14 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln meets with a group of prominent African-Americans – the first time an American President has done so. He suggests that Black people should migrate to Africa or to Central America, but this advice is rejected.
- August 17 – Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota Sioux attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. They are overwhelmed by the U.S. Army six weeks later.
- August 19 – Dakota War of 1862: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
- August 21 – The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
- August 28–August 30 – American Civil War – Second Battle of Bull Run: Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John Pope.
- August 29–August 30 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond in Kentucky: Confederate forces led by General Edmund Kirby Smith inflict a crushing defeat on Union General William "Bull" Nelson.
- September 1 – American Civil War – Battle of Chantilly: Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia, driving them away.
- September 2 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- September 5 – American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
- September 10 – Francisco Solano López is appointed 2nd President of Paraguay.
- September 17 – American Civil War –
- Battle of Antietam: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the bloodiest day in U.S. history, with over 22,000 casualties.
- American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
- September 19 – American Civil War – Battle of Iuka: Union troops under Major General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Major General Sterling Price at Iuka, Mississippi.
- September 22
- Otto von Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia following refusal by the country's Landtag to accept the military budget.
- American Civil War: Preliminary announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
- September 29 – Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck delivers his Blood and Iron speech to the Prussian Landtag.
October–December
- October 8 – American Civil War: Battle of Perryville – Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.
- October 11 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the North.
- October 23 – Otto is deposed as King of Greece.
- October 24 – Ramón Castilla loses the Presidency of Peru for a second time.
- October 25 – In the Granadine Confederation, rebel troops of the southern states defeat government forces.
- November 4 – Richard Jordan Gatling patents the Gatling gun in the United States.
- November 5
- American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army.
- American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.
- November 14 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves the plan by General Ambrose Burnside to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia. This plan leads to a disastrous Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13).
- November 28
- American Civil War – Battle of Cane Hill: Union Army troops led by General John Blunt push back Confederate troops commanded by General John Marmaduke into northwestern the Boston Mountains of Arkansas.
- Notts County F.C. is founded in Nottingham, England, making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldest Association football playing professionally.
- December – Peruvian slave raiders land on Easter Island, beginning a decade of the destruction of society and population on the island.
- December 1 – In his State of the Union address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as he ordered ten weeks earlier in his Emancipation Proclamation.
- December 2 – The first United States Navy hospital ships enter service.
- December 12 – American Civil War: Yazoo Pass Expedition – Union ironclad gunboat USS Cairo is sunk by a remotely-detonated "torpedo" (naval mine) while clearing mines from the Yazoo River, the first armored ship sunk by mine.
- December 13 – American Civil War: Battle of Fredericksburg – The Union Army suffers massive casualties and abandons its attempts to capture the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia.
- December 17 – General Order No. 11, which expels all Jews from his military district, is issued by General Ulysses S. Grant. This order is rescinded just a few weeks later.
- December 26 – William D. Duly hangs 38 Dakota Sioux Indians in Minnesota.
- December 26–29 – American Civil War – Battle of Chickasaw Bayou: Another victory for the Confederate Army, outnumbered two to one, results in six times as many Union casualties, defeating several assaults commanded by the Union general, William T. Sherman.
- December 30 – The USS Monitor sinks in storm in the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- December 31 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia into two. Meanwhile, the Battle of Stones River opens near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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American Civil War in 1862
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- Anna Leonowens accepts an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, the King of Siam.
- Donald McIntyre builds a settlement in northwest Queensland (Australia) which becomes the town of Julia Creek (named after his niece).
Births
January
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Joe Warbrick born 1 January
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Ethel Brilliana Tweedie born 1 January
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- Andrew Blain Baird, Scottish Aviator (d. 1951)
- John Barneson, American businessman (d. 1941)
- Heinrich Braun, German surgeon (d. 1934)
- Georgina Pope, Canadian nurse (d. 1938)
- George Smailes, Australian politician, clergyman (d. 1934)
- Charley Turner, African American boxer (d. 1913)
- Ethel Brilliana Tweedie, Travel writer (d. 1940)
- Joe Warbrick, New Zealand rugby union player and administrator (d. 1903)
- Edward Lewis Young, American banker (d. 1940)
- January 2
- Safi Lakhnavi, Urdu writer (d. 1950)
- Emil Tamsen, South African philatelist (d. 1957)
- January 3
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Matthew Nathan born 3 January
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- Charles L. Burrill, American politician (d. 1931)
- Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz, American rabbi (d. 1939)
- Max Littmann, German architect (d. 1931)
- James W. Maney, American businessman (d. 1945)
- Matthew Nathan (d. 1939)
- William Peck, Scottish astronomer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1925)
- Francis M. Taitt, American Episcopal clergyman (d. 1943)
- January 4
- Louis F. Hart, American politician (d. 1929)
- Edith Swepstone, British composer (d. 1930)
- January 5
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Albert Peyronnet born 5 January
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- James Bretherton, English cricketer (d. 1926)
- John Carew (d. 1927)
- Daniel A. Grout, school teacher and principal and school board administrator (d. 1929)
- Albert Peyronnet, French politician, senator from 1912 to 1945, Minister of Labor in 1922–24 (d. 1958)
- Alfred Price, English cricketer who played for Lancashire and Nottinghamshire (d. 1942)
- Lorenzo Quelch, British trade unionist and politician (d. 1937)
- January 6
- William Hardie, British classical scholar (d. 1916)
- August Oetker, German inventor of baking powder (d. 1918)
- Bartlett Richards, American pastor (d. 1911)
- January 7
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Helen MacMurchy born 7 January
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- John Auld, Scottish footballer (d. 1932)
- Arthur Brown, English footballer (d. 1930)
- Walter von Eberhardt, Prussian general (d. 1944)
- Henry Hanlon, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1937)
- Reinhold Hedberg, Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician (d. 1922)
- Helen MacMurchy, Canadian doctor and author (d. 1953)
- Herbert Mercer, British army officer and member of parliament (d. 1944)
- January 8
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Charles Eliot (diplomat) born 8 January
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- Jim Donahue, Major League Baseball player (d. 1935)
- Frank Nelson Doubleday (d. 1934)
- Charles Eliot (d. 1931)
- William Smith O'Brien, lawyer and Democratic politician from West Virginia (d. 1948)
- January 9
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Agnes Bluhm born 9 January
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- Agnes Bluhm, Winner of Goethe medal (d. 1943)
- William Samuel Booze, United States Representative (d. 1933)
- Joseph Needham, English cricketer (d. 1889)
- August Nölck, German Cellist (d. 1928)
- Joseph-Octave Samson, Canadian politician (d. 1945)
- Carrie Clark Ward, American silent film character actress (d. 1926)
- Guglielmo Andreoli the Younger, Italian pianist (d. 1932)
- January 10
- Reed Smoot (d. 1941)
- Hoshino Tenchi, Japanese writer (d. 1950)
- Walter Travis, Amateur golfer, golf course architect (d. 1927)
- January 11
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Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch born 11 January
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- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch, Serbian artist and writer (d. 1908)
- Joseph Child Priestley, English lawyer (d. 1941)
- Joseph Nelson Rose, American botanist (d. 1928)
- Frank Sugg, English footballer and first-class cricketer (d. 1933)
- January 12
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William Coley born 12 January
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- John George Adami, Pathologist (d. 1926)
- William Coley, American bone surgeon and cancer researcher (d. 1936)
- John Crowley, American baseball player (d. 1896)
- Henri L. Sudre, French botanist (d. 1918)
- January 13
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James Archibald Campbell born 13 January
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- James Archibald Campbell, American, 1st President of Campbell University (1887–1934) (d. 1934)
- John M. Dihring, American farmer (d. 1941)
- John Forbes, Footballer (d. 1928)
- Philadelphus Bain Fraser, Presbyterian minister, controversialist, editor (d. 1940)
- January 14 – Carrie Derick, Canadian botanist and geneticist (d. 1941)
- January 15
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Levi Wright born 15 January
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- Loie Fuller, American dancer (d. 1928)
- Elia W. Peattie, American author (d. 1935)
- Elmer A. Stevens, American politician (d. 1932)
- Levi Wright, English football and cricket player (d. 1953)
- January 16
- Henry Douglas Morpeth Haszard, Surveyor, land commissioner (d. 1938)
- Frederick Edmund Meredith, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1941)
- William T. Tyndall, American politician (d. 1928)
- January 17
- Javier Ángel Figueroa, Chilean politician (d. 1945)
- Buckley Roderick, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1908)
- January 18
- Archibald Campbell, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
- Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr., United States Representative from Mississippi (d. 1944)
- William Higgs, Australian politician (d. 1951)
- January 19
- Mac MacArthur, Major League Baseball player (d. 1932)
- Josef Reiter, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1939)
- William W. Wemple, American politician (d. 1933)
- January 20
- Ira Coleman Batman, American jurist and politician (d. 1934)
- Matthew Bennett, Australian politician (d. 1951)
- Willie Over, Australian cricketer (d. 1910)
- January 21
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William Bromley-Davenport (British Army officer) born 21 January
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- William Bromley-Davenport, English footballer (d. 1949)
- Robert Almer Harper, American botanist (d. 1946)
- George D. Herron, American clergyman, writer and activist (d. 1925)
- Art Sunday, American baseball player (d. 1926)
- January 22
- Thomas Blow, Canadian bolitician (d. 1932)
- Eugene Doherty, Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician (d. 1937)
- William Kirkness, Australian politician (d. 1944)
- James A. Macdonald, Canadian newspaper editor (d. 1923)
- William Gordon Burn Murdoch, Scottish painter and explorer (d. 1939)
- William Thompson, Australian politician (d. 1937)
- Max Wellborn, First chairman of the board and a governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (d. 1957)
- January 23
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Ovington Weller born 23 January
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- Brinton B. Davis, American architect (d. 1952)
- David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
- Evan Richards, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1931)
- Frank Shuman, American inventor (d. 1918)
- Ovington Weller, Republican member of the United States Senate (d. 1927)
- January 24
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Richard Haking born 24 January
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- Prince Alfons of Bavaria, Member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry (d. 1933)
- Richard Haking (d. 1945)
- Johann Andreas Kneucker, German botanical collector who was a native of Wenkheim (d. 1946)
- Jeremiah Neterer, United States federal judge (d. 1943)
- Charles J. Thompson, American politician (d. 1932)
- Edith Wharton, American fiction writer (d. 1937)
- January 25
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Ramabai Ranade born 25 January
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- Henry Walter Barnett, Australian photographer and filmmaker (d. 1934)
- Philip Hutchinson, South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1889 (d. 1925)
- Ramabai Ranade, Women right activist in the early 20th century (d. 1924)
- Joseph Ward, Farmworker, bookseller and stationer, astronomer (d. 1927)
- January 26
- Brian Doe, New South Wales politician (d. 1941)
- Alice Jacob, Irish botanical illustrator (d. 1921)
- E. H. Moore, American mathematician (d. 1932)
- January 27
- Eustaquio Escandón, Polo player (d. 1933)
- John Joseph Esmonde, Royal Army Medical Corps officer (d. 1915)
- René Laverdure, French Army offiver (d. 1914)
- James A. McKenzie, American businessman and politician (d. 1918)
- Robert O'Dwyer (d. 1949)
- January 28
- Apollon, French strongman (d. 1928)
- Hannah Bachman Einstein, American Jewish social worker and activist (d. 1929)
- Martin K. Gantz, American politician (d. 1916)
- Thomas Henry Garry, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
- Ella Rhoads Higginson, American writer (d. 1940)
- Franklin Henry Hooper, American editor (d. 1940)
- Newton C. Young, American politician (d. 1923)
- January 29
- Frantz Charlet, etcher, lithographer, painter (d. 1928)
- Ove Dahl, Norwegian botanist (d. 1940)
- Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
- January 30
- Walter Damrosch, German-born American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
- Alfred Stabell, Norwegian sport shooter (d. 1942)
- January 31
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Jim Manning (baseball) born 31 January
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- Clemens Blume, Jesuit hymnologist (d. 1932)
- Al Buckenberger, Major League Baseball manager (d. 1917)
- John H. Foster, American politician (d. 1917)
- S. Price Gilbert, Member of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state) (d. 1951)
- Jim Manning, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
- George Walbridge Perkins, American politician and businessman (d. 1920)
February
- February 1
- Geirulf Bugge, Norwegian judge (d. 1940)
- Marian Massonius, Polish philosopher (d. 1945)
- Robert Richardson, British politician (d. 1943)
- February 2
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R. H. Hunt born 2 February
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Sir_Archibald_Gordon_Henry_Wilson_Moore_in_1916.jpg/110px-Sir_Archibald_Gordon_Henry_Wilson_Moore_in_1916.jpg)
Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer) born 2 February
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- George Arthur Boeckling, German businessman, president of Cedar Point Pleasure Company (d. 1931)
- Émile Coste, French fencer (d. 1927)
- Bert Dorr, Major League Baseball player (d. 1914)
- Edward C. Finch, American politician (d. 1933)
- Emory William Hunt, American academic (d. 1938)
- R. H. Hunt, Architect (d. 1937)
- Gordon Moore (d. 1934)
- Elizabeth Lowell Putnam (d. 1935)
- February 3
- Joaquín Dicenta, Spanish writer (d. 1917)
- Nanna Fleischer, Norwegian teacher (d. 1946)
- William Jackson Humphreys, American physicist and atmospheric researcher (d. 1949)
- Arthur Kemble, English cricketer (d. 1925)
- Kenneth W. MacKenzie, Canadian politician (d. 1929)
- James Clark McReynolds, United States federal judge and Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)
- Azariah Smith Root, American librarian (d. 1927)
- Peter Slotsvik, Norwegian newspaper editor (d. 1924)
- February 4
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Hjalmar_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld.jpg/110px-Hjalmar_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld.jpg)
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld born 4 February
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- Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician (d. 1953)
- George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer and journalist (d. 1920)
- Arthur Nicolaier, German Jewish internist (d. 1942)
- Winthrop Rutherfurd, American socialite (d. 1944)
- February 5
- Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an Austrian nobleman (d. 1956)
- Felipe de Jesús Villanueva Gutiérrez, Mexican composer (d. 1893)
- Annie Mabel Hodge, Teacher, headmistress (d. 1938)
- L. M. Wells, Actor (d. 1923)
- February 6
- Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, German botanist (d. 1948)
- James Cross, English cricketer (d. 1927)
- John Juniper, English cricketer (d. 1885)
- February 7
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Horace_French_Graham.jpg/110px-Horace_French_Graham.jpg)
Horace F. Graham born 7 February
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Henri Konow born 7 February
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- Edward Granville Browne, British orientalist (d. 1926)
- Shelt Carpenter, American musician (d. 1937)
- Maria Cunțan, Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet (d. 1935)
- Charlie Dougherty, American baseball player (d. 1925)
- Horace F. Graham, American politician (d. 1941)
- Henri Konow, Governor of the Danish West Indies (d. 1939)
- Bernard Maybeck, American Arts and Crafts architect (d. 1957)
- Arthur T. Polhill-Turner, English missionary (d. 1935)
- Sante De Sanctis, Psychologist (d. 1935)
- February 8
- Ferdinand Ferber, French Army captain and aviation pioneer (d. 1909)
- Károly Ferenczy, Hungarian artist (d. 1917)
- James Macdonald, British engineer (d. 1927)
- February 9
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/A.V._Jackson_portrait.jpg/110px-A.V._Jackson_portrait.jpg)
A. V. Williams Jackson born 9 February
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- May Fortescue, British actress and singer (d. 1950)
- Francis Richard Hall, architect in Brisbane (d. 1939)
- A. V. Williams Jackson (d. 1937)
- M. Price Webb, Member of the Senate of Virginia (d. 1938)
- February 10
- Gobo Ashley (d. 1930)
- Paddy Crick, New South Wales politician (d. 1908)
- Émile Topsent, French zoologist (d. 1951)
- February 11
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Curt_Welch.jpg/110px-Curt_Welch.jpg)
Curt Welch born 11 February
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- George Harrison, English county cricketer (d. 1940)
- Francis Sowerby Macaulay (d. 1937)
- Edward Everett Rose, American playwright (d. 1939)
- Harvey Simpson, politician in Manitoba (d. 1928)
- Curt Welch, American baseball player (d. 1896)
- February 12
- Manuel de Brito Camacho, Portuguese military officer and writer (d. 1934)
- Thomas Cullinan, South African businessman (d. 1936)
- Alexandru Davila, Romanian writer and diplomat (d. 1929)
- Henry Lyster, Irish dean (d. 1932)
- James Mansfield, Cricketer (d. 1932)
- Robert Stopford (d. 1926)
- February 13
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Henry_F._Urban_1909.jpg/110px-Henry_F._Urban_1909.jpg)
Henry F. Urban born 13 February
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- Mikkel Hindhede, Danish physician (d. 1945)
- James Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant, British politician (d. 1933)
- Henry F. Urban, German-American journalist, author (d. 1924)
- Karel Weis (d. 1944)
- February 14
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Agnes_Pockels.jpg/110px-Agnes_Pockels.jpg)
Agnes Pockels born 14 February
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- Benigno C. Hernández, first Hispanic from New Mexico to serve as a full Member of Congress (d. 1954)
- Nestore Leoni, Italian painter (d. 1947)
- Agnes Pockels, German pioneer in chemistry (d. 1935)
- Sam Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1943)
- February 15
- John Fitzpatrick, Australian politician (d. 1932)
- Joe Weber, American baseball player (d. 1921)
- February 16
- Llewellyn John Montford Bebb, British academic (d. 1915)
- Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel, German entomologist (d. 1936)
- Phil Tanner, important traditional singer of Llangenith in the Gower Peninsula (South Wales) (d. 1950)
- February 17
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Eduard_Bornh%C3%B6he.jpg/110px-Eduard_Bornh%C3%B6he.jpg)
Eduard Bornhöhe born 17 February
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- Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian writer (d. 1923)
- Edward German, English musician and composer of Welsh descent (d. 1936)
- Gustave Glotz, French historian (d. 1935)
- Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, American playwright (d. 1935)
- Eugen Schmidt, Danish shooter (d. 1931)
- Harry Topham, English cricketer (d. 1925)
- Arthur Norreys Worthington, Canadian politician (d. 1912)
- February 18
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Charles_M._Schwab_cph.3b33668.jpg/110px-Charles_M._Schwab_cph.3b33668.jpg)
Charles M. Schwab born 18 February
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- Hector Champagne, Canadian politician (d. 1941)
- James Gray, journalist and the 19th mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1916)
- Milford W. Howard, American politician (d. 1937)
- Hans Larsson, Swedish philosopher (d. 1944)
- Ermenegildo Pistelli, Italian Egyptologist (d. 1927)
- Charles M. Schwab, American steel magnate (d. 1939)
- Albert Welti, Swiss artist (d. 1912)
- February 19
- John Robert Brown, Canadian politician (d. 1947)
- Moses J. Doucet, Canadian politician (d. 1906)
- Lev Kekushev, Russian architect (d. 1916)
- Rudolf Muus, Norwegian writer (d. 1935)
- Oskar Seyffert, German classical scholar (d. 1940)
- February 20
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Archbishop_Timothy_Casey_Photo_B_%28HS85-10-37231%29.jpg/110px-Archbishop_Timothy_Casey_Photo_B_%28HS85-10-37231%29.jpg)
Timothy Casey born 20 February
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- Charles Barrington Balfour, British politician (d. 1921)
- Timothy Casey, Catholic bishop (d. 1931)
- Alexander Ludovic Duff, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1933)
- Clement Mitchell, English footballer (d. 1937)
- Harry Raymond, American baseball player (d. 1925)
- February 21 – Sydney Copeman, British doctor (d. 1947)
- February 22
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/William_Olcott.jpg/110px-William_Olcott.jpg)
William J. Olcott born 22 February
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- Alexander G. Crockett, Member of the Senate of Virginia (d. 1919)
- Thomas Cusack, Catholic bishop (d. 1918)
- Ruth Gentry, pioneering American woman mathematician (d. 1917)
- Philipp von Hellingrath, German general (d. 1939)
- Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, first Japanese born Bishop of Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (d. 1928)
- William J. Olcott, American football player (d. 1935)
- February 24
- Edilberto Evangelista, Filipino civil engineer and a revolutionary (d. 1897)
- Henry Esson Young, British Colombian politician (d. 1939)
- February 25
- Helen Bannerman (d. 1946)
- Waldemar Belck, German archaeologist (d. 1932)
- John Allister Currie, Canadian politician (d. 1931)
- Stanisław Głąbiński, Polish politician, academic, lawyer and writer (d. 1941)
- February 26 – Henry Worrall, Australian Methodist minister, Orangeman and temperance advocate (d. 1940)
- February 27
- James Barrett, ophthalmologist and academic administrator (d. 1945)
- Charles Hedley, Australian zoologist (d. 1926)
- Hamilton Fish Kean, United States Senate (d. 1941)
- February 28
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E. W. Bastard born 28 February
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- Talib al-Naqib, Iraqi Politician (d. 1929)
- E. W. Bastard, English cricketer who played for Oxford University and Somerset (d. 1901)
- Lars Jonson Haukaness, American artist (d. 1929)
- Edwin Savage, British priest in the Church of England and an author (d. 1947)
March
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/%C3%81ngel_Mislan.jpg/110px-%C3%81ngel_Mislan.jpg)
Ángel Mislan born 1 March
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- John Andrew Bowler, American minister (d. 1935)
- Joseph Butler, Sawmiller, timber merchant (d. 1934)
- Sidney J. A. Churchill, British diplomat and art historian (d. 1921)
- Edward Curtis Franklin, American chemist (d. 1937)
- Brice Meuleman, Belgian bishop (d. 1924)
- Ángel Mislan, composer of Puerto Rican Danzas (d. 1911)
- Maurice Nicolle, French microbiologist (d. 1932)
- Livia Simpson Poffenbarger, American historian and newspaper owner (d. 1937)
- March 2
- John Jay Chapman, American author (d. 1933)
- Edward Robins, American writer (d. 1943)
- Edwin Milton Royle, American writer (d. 1942)
- March 3
Jakob Heusser-Staub born 3 March
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- Sadie American, American activist (d. 1944)
- Albertus Theodore Briggs, American Methodist minister (d. 1937)
- Jakob Heusser-Staub, Swiss industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1941)
- Božidar Knežević, Serbian philosopher and writer (d. 1905)
- Paddy Nolan, Canadian lawyer (d. 1913)
- Jumbo Schoeneck, Major League Baseball player (d. 1930)
- March 4
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/GeorgeProuty.jpg/110px-GeorgeProuty.jpg)
George H. Prouty born 4 March
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- Charles Williamson Crook, English teacher, trade union official and politician (d. 1926)
- Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
- Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist (d. 1940)
- Norman Gale, British writer (d. 1942)
- Tom Gunning, American baseball player (d. 1931)
- George H. Prouty, American politician (d. 1918)
- March 5
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Tarrasch_72.jpg/110px-Tarrasch_72.jpg)
Siegbert Tarrasch born 5 March
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- Edward Allen, Australian politician and journalist (d. 1936)
- Frederick Haynes Newell (d. 1932)
- Peter Newell, Artist (d. 1924)
- Siegbert Tarrasch (d. 1934)
- March 6
- Allen Caperton Braxton, American lawyer (d. 1914)
- Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1940)
- Edward Hardcastle, English cricketer (d. 1945)
- Daniel W. Mead (d. 1948)
- Eugen Rehfisch, German physician (d. 1937)
- March 7
- George Alexander Ballard, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1948)
- Theodor Kipp, German jurist who is perhaps best known for his theory of "double nullity" (d. 1931)
- Josef Strzygowski, Polish-Austrian art historian (d. 1941)
- March 8
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/George_Frederick_Phillips.jpg)
George Frederick Phillips born 8 March
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- Robert Barr (d. 1947)
- William Irwin Grubb, United States federal judge (d. 1935)
- Thomas Neelands, ninth Mayor of Vancouver (d. 1944)
- George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (d. 1904)
- Ogasawara Tadanobu, Daimyo who ruled the Kokura Domain (d. 1897)
- March 9
- Alfred Berkeley, British bishop (d. 1938)
- Sidney Frederic Harmer, British zoologist (d. 1950)
- Mykola Pymonenko (d. 1912)
- Georges-Fernand Widal, French physician (d. 1929)
- March 10
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Dad_Lytle.jpg/110px-Dad_Lytle.jpg)
Ed Lytle born 10 March
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Edward_Shortt.jpg/110px-Edward_Shortt.jpg)
Edward Shortt born 10 March
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- Florence Aylward, English composer (d. 1950)
- Johan Olaf Bredal, Norwegian barrister and politician (d. 1948)
- Fernand Chapsal, French lawyer (d. 1939)
- Robert Lee (d. 1925)
- Ed Lytle, Professional baseball player and manager (d. 1950)
- Charles T. Menoher, United States Army general (d. 1930)
- Edward Shortt (d. 1935)
- Edward Swann, American politician (d. 1945)
- March 11
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/CTBTurner.jpg/110px-CTBTurner.jpg)
Charles Turner (cricketer) born 11 March
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- Josef Konstantin Beer, Czech artist (d. 1933)
- John Cowans, British Army general (d. 1921)
- Charles Fisk, American politician (d. 1932)
- Edle Hartmann, Norwegian writer (d. 1946)
- William Graham Nicholson, British politician (d. 1942)
- Charles Turner, bowler, one of the finest ever produced by Australia (d. 1944)
- Charles Turner, English cricketer (d. 1926)
- Harold Wager, British mycologist (d. 1929)
- March 12
- Benjamin F. Baker, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1927)
- Wilhelm Forsberg, Swedish yacht racer (d. 1939)
- Henry Hendrickson, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1912)
- Bill Kienzle, American baseball player (d. 1910)
- Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum, Swedish chemist (d. 1933)
- March 13
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Jane_Delano.jpg/110px-Jane_Delano.jpg)
Jane Delano born 13 March
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Williamdever.jpg/110px-Williamdever.jpg)
William Emmett Dever born 13 March
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- Theodor des Coudres, German physicist (d. 1926)
- Jane Delano, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. 1919)
- William Emmett Dever (d. 1929)
- Paul Prosper Henrys (d. 1943)
- Harold Leach, English cricketer (d. 1928)
- David McDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1939)
- Joe McGuckin, American baseball player (d. 1903)
- Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet, British lawyer and Treasury Solicitor (d. 1929)
- Margaret Tuke (d. 1947)
- Wilhelm Weigand, German Neoromanticism and Realism period poet and writer (d. 1949)
- March 14
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Percy_Shaw_Jeffrey.jpg/110px-Percy_Shaw_Jeffrey.jpg)
Percy Shaw Jeffrey born 14 March
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- Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951)
- Richard Howland Hunt, American architect and member of the notable Hunt family of Vermont (d. 1931)
- Percy Shaw Jeffrey, Schoolmaster, academic and author (d. 1952)
- Eva Thatcher, American film actress (d. 1942)
- Geerhardus Vos, American theologian (d. 1949)
- March 15
- Gordon Beves, Umpire (d. 1927)
- Herbert King-Hall, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1936)
- Alejandro Sawa, Spanish writer (d. 1909)
- March 16
- Dan Abbott, American baseball player (d. 1930)
- Ernest Arthur Gardner, English archaeologist (d. 1939)
- Arthur Gaskin, British artist (d. 1928)
- Wil van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh's sister (d. 1941)
- Cecil Haig, British fencer (d. 1947)
- Otto von Stetten, German General of the Cavalry in World War I (d. 1937)
- March 17
- Dina Barberini, Italian opera singer (d. 1932)
- François-Rupert Carabin, French artist (d. 1932)
- G. E. Farrow, British writer (d. 1919)
- Silvio Gesell, German economist (d. 1930)
- Edward Griffiths, English cricketer (d. 1893)
- Charles Laval, French painter associated with the Synthetic movement and Pont-Aven School (d. 1894)
- Homer Plessy, American Louisiana Creole of Color plaintiff (d. 1925)
- March 18
- Dorr Felt, American inventor (d. 1930)
- Eugène Jansson, Painter (d. 1915)
- P. Rajagopalachari (d. 1927)
- March 19
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/LtGovNewlands.jpg/110px-LtGovNewlands.jpg)
Henry William Newlands born 19 March
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- Arthur Merric Boyd, Australian painter (d. 1940)
- Adolf Kneser, German mathematician (d. 1930)
- Henry William Newlands, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
- Ruggero Panerai, Italian painter (d. 1923)
- Marcel Rieder, French painter (d. 1942)
- Joseph Stoppenbach, American businessman and politician (d. 1944)
- William Henry Watkins, British co-operative activist (d. 1924)
- March 20 – John Charles Groome, American police commissioner (d. 1930)
- March 21 – Arthur Carnell, Sport shooter (d. 1940)
- March 22
- Frank Bacon, English footballer (d. 1917)
- Laura Jean Libbey, American writer (d. 1924)
- Edward Treharne, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1904)
- March 23
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/EduardStudy.jpg/110px-EduardStudy.jpg)
Eduard Study born 23 March
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- George Head Barclay, British diplomat (d. 1921)
- Kenny Davenport, English footballer (d. 1908)
- Alfred Dührssen, German gynecologist and obstetrician (d. 1933)
- Gabriela Preissová, Czech writer (d. 1946)
- Nathaniel Reed, American gunman (d. 1950)
- Eduard Study, German mathematician; worked on invariant theory of ternary forms and spherical trigonometry (d. 1930)
- March 24
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Frank_W_Benson_artist_headshot-crop.jpg/110px-Frank_W_Benson_artist_headshot-crop.jpg)
Frank Weston Benson born 24 March
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- Frank Weston Benson, American artist from Salem (d. 1951)
- Émile Marchoux, French microbiologist (d. 1943)
- William L. Mathues, American politician (d. 1908)
- Gilbert McMicking, British politician (d. 1942)
- Louisa Woosley, first woman ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (d. 1952)
- March 25
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Justice_George_Sutherland_5.jpg/110px-Justice_George_Sutherland_5.jpg)
George Sutherland born 25 March
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- Charlie Geggus, American baseball player (d. 1917)
- Patrick Gilday, American labor unionist (d. 1917)
- William E. Johnson, American leader of the Anti-Saloon League (d. 1945)
- May Morris, English artisan (d. 1938)
- Theodor Rumpel, German surgeon (d. 1923)
- George Sutherland, U.S. jurist and political figure (d. 1942)
- March 26
- Bernhard M. Jacobsen, American politician (d. 1936)
- Harry Pickett, English cricketer (d. 1907)
- Dicky Richards (d. 1903)
- March 27
- Francesc Alió, Composer (d. 1908)
- Hipólito Boaventura Caron, Brazilian painter and designer (d. 1892)
- Arthur Groenouw, German ophthalmologist (d. 1945)
- March 28
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Angelo_Battelli.jpg/110px-Angelo_Battelli.jpg)
Angelo Battelli born 28 March
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- Angelo Battelli, Italian physicist (d. 1916)
- Aristide Briand, French politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
- Alfred Marr, Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885 (d. 1940)
- George Marshall-Hall, Australian composer, conductor and poet (d. 1915)
- March 29
- Carl Busch, Danish-born American composer (d. 1943)
- William Guard, American opera publicist (d. 1932)
- Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-born American painter (d. 1947)
- March 30
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Ossian_Schauman.jpg/110px-Ossian_Schauman.jpg)
Ossian Schauman born 30 March
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- Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, Film director film writer (d. 1913)
- Francis R. Pryor, British playwright (d. 1937)
- Leonard James Rogers, British mathematician (d. 1933)
- Ossian Schauman, Finnish scientist (d. 1922)
- David Henry Souter, Australian journalist and illustrator (d. 1935)
- George Stephan, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (d. 1944)
- March 31
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Claude_Augustus_Swanson.jpg/110px-Claude_Augustus_Swanson.jpg)
Claude A. Swanson born 31 March
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- Art Benedict, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- William E. Humphrey (d. 1934)
- Gustav A. Olsen-Berg, Norwegian politician (d. 1896)
- Claude A. Swanson, American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia (d. 1939)
April
- April 1
- Carl Charlier, Swedish astronomer (d. 1934)
- A.J. Gibson, architect in Missoula (d. 1927)
- Frederick G. Roberts, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1936)
- April 2
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Portrait_of_Nicholas_Murray_Butler.jpg/110px-Portrait_of_Nicholas_Murray_Butler.jpg)
Nicholas Murray Butler born 2 April
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- Nicholas Murray Butler, American president of Columbia University and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947)
- Bryan Mahon (d. 1930)
- James McGhee, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1941)
- William Bauchop Wilson, (Scottish-born) American labor leader and progressive (d. 1934)
- April 3
- Oscar Grossheim, American photographer (d. 1954)
- Willie Hume, Irish racing cyclist (d. 1941)
- Adam Rolland Rainy, British politician (d. 1911)
- John Thayer, American ornithologist (d. 1949)
- April 4
- Wilhelm Altmann, German historian (d. 1951)
- Robert King, English footballer (d. 1950)
- John McCloskey, American baseball manager (d. 1940)
- Erich Paulun, German physician (d. 1909)
- Hugh Rathbone, British politician (d. 1940)
- Peter Joseph Shields, American judge (d. 1962)
- April 5
- Vicente Álvarez, Philippine revolutionary hero (d. 1942)
- Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet (d. 1935)
- Edwin Edwards, Businessman, local politician, newspaper proprietor and editor, balladeer (d. 1909)
- Leo Stern, British cellist (d. 1904)
- April 6
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Knipovich.jpg/110px-Knipovich.jpg)
Nikolai Knipovich born 6 April
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- Georges Darien, French writer (d. 1921)
- Eddie Hogan, American baseball player (d. 1932)
- Nikolai Knipovich, Russian zoologist (d. 1939)
- Francis T. Ryan, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1927)
- April 7
- William Haselden Ellerbe, American politician (d. 1899)
- Savvas the New of Kalymnos, Greek saint (d. 1947)
- Christian Landenberger, German artist (d. 1927)
- April 8
- George Briner, Australian politician (d. 1920)
- Georges Louis Humbert, French general (d. 1921)
- Charles Willock, English cricketer (d. 1919)
- April 9
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Henry_Tonks01.jpg/110px-Henry_Tonks01.jpg)
Henry Tonks born 9 April
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- Charles Brent, American Episopal bishop (d. 1929)
- Anna Maria Roos, Swedish educator (d. 1938)
- Harold Steel, English cricketer who played for Lancashire and Cambridge University (d. 1911)
- Henry Tonks, British artist (d. 1937)
- April 10
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Elliot_Johnson.jpg/110px-Elliot_Johnson.jpg)
Elliot Johnson (politician) born 10 April
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- Wilbur Lucius Cross, American literary critic who served as the 71st Governor of Connecticut (d. 1948)
- Ed Ford, American baseball player (d. 1931)
- Alison Garland, British politician (d. 1939)
- Carl Goetz, Austrian actor (d. 1932)
- Elliot Johnson, Australian politician (d. 1932)
- Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone, Canadian politician (d. 1936)
- E. E. Seevers, American politician (d. 1927)
- April 11
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Charles_Evans_Hughes_cph.3b15401.jpg/110px-Charles_Evans_Hughes_cph.3b15401.jpg)
Charles Evans Hughes born 11 April
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Friedrich_Berthold_Reinke_at_24_years_of_age.jpg/110px-Friedrich_Berthold_Reinke_at_24_years_of_age.jpg)
Friedrich Berthold Reinke born 11 April
-
- William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- Heinrich Cunow, German politician (d. 1936)
- R. Austin Freeman, British writer of detective stories (d. 1943)
- Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and statesman (d. 1948)
- Thomas Kearns, United State Senator from Utah (d. 1918)
- Friedrich Berthold Reinke, German anatomist (d. 1919)
- Fred Swanton, businessman who served as mayor of Santa Cruz (d. 1940)
- Samuel Winslow, American politician (d. 1940)
- April 12
- Nikolay Likhachyov, Russian art historian (d. 1936)
- Frank A. Mason, American football player and coach (d. 1940)
- April 13
- Arthur Holland, British politician (d. 1927)
- Flaminius Raiberti, French politician who was a Radical Republican deputy for Nice for 32 years (d. 1929)
- Ahmad II of Tunis (d. 1942)
- April 14
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MartinGBrumbaugh.jpg/110px-MartinGBrumbaugh.jpg)
Martin Grove Brumbaugh born 14 April
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- Giuseppe Brentano, Italian architect (d. 1889)
- Martin Grove Brumbaugh, American politician (d. 1930)
- Néstor Montoya, American politician (d. 1923)
- William Tonge, Cricketer (d. 1943)
- April 15
- Amico Bignami, Italian physician and pathologist (d. 1929)
- Lelia N. Morris, American Methodist hymnwriter (d. 1929)
- Martin A. Morrison, American politician (d. 1944)
- John Robb, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1913)
- Sy Sutcliffe, American baseball player (d. 1893)
- April 16 – John Baxter Barbour, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1929)
- April 17
- Herbert William Allingham, British surgeon (d. 1904)
- John M. Faison, American politician (d. 1915)
- Henry Mullin, Canadian baseball player (d. 1937)
- Abbott Barnes Rice, American politician (d. 1926)
- April 18
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Henry_Lynch.jpg/110px-Henry_Lynch.jpg)
H. F. B. Lynch born 18 April
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/George_Baker_cricketer.jpg/110px-George_Baker_cricketer.jpg)
George Baker (cricketer, born 1862) born 18 April
-
- George Baker, English cricketer (d. 1938)
- Harry Bell, English footballer (d. 1948)
- George Dovey, Owner of the National League's Boston Doves (d. 1909)
- Gustav Lund, Norwegian Sami preacher (d. 1912)
- H. F. B. Lynch, British politician (d. 1913)
- William A. Shanklin, American academic (d. 1924)
- George Westcott, Bishop of Lucknow (d. 1928)
- Charles B. Witmer, United States federal judge (d. 1925)
- April 19
- Thomas Rogers Kimball, American architect (d. 1934)
- Thomas Wardall, English county cricketer (d. 1932)
- April 20 – Paul Scherrer, Swiss politician (d. 1935)
- April 21
- Ralph W. Moss, American politician (d. 1919)
- François-Léon Sicard (d. 1934)
- John Thayer, American first-class cricketer (d. 1912)
- April 22
- Albert Christopher Addison, writer, Newspaper reporter (d. 1935)
- Jeanne Chauvin, second woman to obtain a degree in law in France (d. 1926)
- C. Hayden Coffin, English actor and singer in many famous Edwardian musical comedies (d. 1935)
- Robert Thomson Melrose, Australian pastoralist and politician (d. 1945)
- John Rosser, Australian cricketer (d. 1925)
- April 24
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Nathaniel_B._Dial.jpg/110px-Nathaniel_B._Dial.jpg)
Nathaniel B. Dial born 24 April
-
- A. C. Benson, English essayist (d. 1925)
- Gaston Bussière, French Symbolist painter and illustrator (d. 1928)
- Nathaniel B. Dial, American politician (d. 1940)
- Hugo Markus Ganz, German journalist (d. 1922)
- Cyril Maude, English actor-manager (d. 1951)
- April 25
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Edward_Grey_1914.jpg/110px-Edward_Grey_1914.jpg)
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon born 25 April
-
- Maurice Reymond de Broutelles, Swiss artist (d. 1936)
- Philip P. Campbell, American politician (d. 1941)
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (d. 1933)
- Edmund Radcliffe Pears, Royal navy officer (d. 1941)
- John R. Ramsey, American politician (d. 1933)
- Samuel J. Ramsperger, American politician (d. 1936)
- Frederick Willoughby, English cricketer (d. 1952)
- April 26
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Edmund_C._Tarbell.jpg/110px-Edmund_C._Tarbell.jpg)
Edmund C. Tarbell born 26 April
-
- James T. Powers, American actor (d. 1943)
- Niels Thorkild Rovsing, Danish surgeon (d. 1927)
- Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter (d. 1938)
- Harold Bridgwood Walker (d. 1934)
- April 27
- Hans Kehr, German surgeon (d. 1916)
- William Wallace McCredie, American politician (d. 1935)
- Rudolph Schildkraut, Istanbul born American actor (d. 1930)
- Roderick Dhu Sutherland, Nebraska Populist politician (d. 1915)
- Hugh Vincent, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1931)
- April 28
- William Norton, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1898)
- John Shannon (d. 1926)
- Tudor St George Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1906)
- April 29
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Altsheler.jpg/110px-Altsheler.jpg)
Joseph Alexander Altsheler born 29 April
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- Joseph Alexander Altsheler, American newspaper reporter (d. 1919)
- Edward Boddington, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1897)
- Carl Friedemann, Composer, conductor, and musician (d. 1952)
- Frédérique Vallet-Bisson, French painter (d. 1949)
- April 30 – Heinrich Zoelly, Developer of turbines, patented geothermal heat pump (d. 1937)
May
- May 1
- Ida Stover Eisenhower, First Mother of the United States (d. 1946)
- Thomas M. Jett, American politician (d. 1939)
- Marcel Prévost, French author and dramatist (d. 1941)
- Harchandrai Vishandas, British Indian lawyer (d. 1928)
- May 2
- Ollie Beard, Major League Baseball player, burgoo (d. 1887)
- Maurice Emmanuel, French composer of classical music born in Bar-sur-Aube (d. 1938)
- Thomas Williams, English-born Australian politician (d. 1953)
- May 3
- Dirk van Foreest, Dutch chess player (d. 1956)
- Frank Luxford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1954)
- May 4
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Enrico_Caviglia.jpg/110px-Enrico_Caviglia.jpg)
Enrico Caviglia born 4 May
-
- Romeo Antoniazzi, Italian luthier (d. 1925)
- Enrico Caviglia, Marshal of Italy (d. 1945)
- Thomas F. Conway, New York politician (d. 1945)
- John Adam Cramb, British historian (d. 1913)
- Albert Moll (d. 1939)
- William Joseph O'Connor, Canadian rower (d. 1892)
- Billy Otterson, American baseball player (d. 1940)
- Henry Beyer Robertson, son of Henry Robertson (d. 1948)
- May 5 – Hermon Carey Bumpus, American academic administrator (d. 1943)
- May 6
- Jeff Davis (d. 1913)
- Edwin W. Rice, American engineer (d. 1935)
- Oscar Underwood, American politician from Alabama and candidate for President of the United States (d. 1929)
- May 7
- Siegfried Kalischer, German neurologist (d. 1956)
- Nevil Macready, British Army officer (d. 1946)
- May 8
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Emilie_Rathou.jpg/110px-Emilie_Rathou.jpg)
Emilie Rathou born 8 May
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- Horace Bivins, Buffalo Soldier of the United States Army (d. 1937)
- Henry Bruce, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1948)
- S. Wallace Dempsey, American politician (d. 1949)
- Hugo Erdmann, German chemist (d. 1910)
- Emilie Rathou, Swedish Social Democrat, temperance- and women's right activist (d. 1948)
- May 9
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/WO_Valentine.jpg/110px-WO_Valentine.jpg)
William Valentine born 9 May
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- Charles Wilberforce Daniels, British medical doctor and scientist (d. 1927)
- J. Doyle Penrose, Irish painter (d. 1932)
- Hugh Stowell Scott (d. 1903)
- William Valentine, innovative educator and missionary in service of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (d. 1928)
- May 10
- Alcon Bowman, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
- L. C. Pedersen (d. 1929)
- Frank Wyman, American baseball player (d. 1916)
- May 11
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Franklin_S._Billings.jpg/110px-Franklin_S._Billings.jpg)
Franklin S. Billings born 11 May
-
- Ryland Adkins, British politician (d. 1925)
- Franklin S. Billings, American politician (d. 1935)
- Thomas Arkle Clark, American academic (d. 1932)
- Bernard Currey, Royal Navy officer who commanded the 5th Battle Squadron (d. 1936)
- Anders Sandvig, Founded Norwegian cultural museum (d. 1950)
- May 12
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Chicken_Wolf.jpg/110px-Chicken_Wolf.jpg)
Jimmy Wolf born 12 May
-
- T.C. Johnson, Firearm designer (d. 1934)
- Louise Phelps Kellogg, American historian (d. 1942)
- Anthony R. Kuser, American businessman (d. 1929)
- Max Wentscher, German philosopher (d. 1942)
- Jimmy Wolf, Major League Baseball player (d. 1903)
- May 13
- William Clough, British politician (d. 1937)
- Thomas Johannes Lauritz Parr, Norwegian psychologist (d. 1935)
- Joseph Redfearn, English county cricketer (d. 1931)
- Arthur R. Richardson, Canadian politician (d. 1936)
- Janko Veselinović, Writer (d. 1905)
- May 14 – Thomas Payne (d. 1932)
- May 15
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Arthur_Schnitzler_1912.jpg/110px-Arthur_Schnitzler_1912.jpg)
Arthur Schnitzler born 15 May
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- Cassius Jackson Keyser, American mathematician of pronounced philosophical inclinations (d. 1947)
- Wilhelm Max Müller, American orientalist (d. 1919)
- Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)
- Arthur Wakerley, British architect and politician (d. 1931)
- May 16
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Lensmall.jpg/110px-Lensmall.jpg)
Len Small born 16 May
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- Margaret Fountaine, British entomologist (d. 1940)
- George Grewcock, English cricketer (d. 1922)
- Andrieus A. Jones, Democratic Party politician from New Mexico, represented the state in the United States Senate (d. 1927)
- Camillo Pace, Italian pastor (d. 1948)
- Anna Seward Pruitt, missionary in China (d. 1948)
- Len Small, American politician (d. 1936)
- Willem de Zwart, Dutch painter (d. 1931)
- May 17 – H. Reeves-Smith, Actor (d. 1938)
- May 18
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg/110px-Josephus_Daniels_1.jpg)
Josephus Daniels born 18 May
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- Josephus Daniels, progressive Democrat (d. 1948)
- Tom Gillen, American baseball player (d. 1889)
- Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, German psychologist (d. 1929)
- Anderson Howell Walters, American politician (d. 1927)
- May 19
- João do Canto e Castro, Portuguese Navy officer and the fifth President of the Portuguese Republic (d. 1934)
- Gino Loria, Italian mathematician (d. 1954)
- May 20
- André Berthelot, son of the chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot and a député of the Seine (d. 1938)
- Constant-Désiré Despradelle, French architect (d. 1912)
- Hans Hartmann-MacLean, German sculptor (d. 1946)
- May 21
- Imro Fox, Magician (d. 1910)
- Thomas Ewing III, Commissioner of the US Patent office (d. 1942)
- May 22
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/ff/Solomon_Dias_Bandaranaike_%281862-1946%29.jpg/110px-Solomon_Dias_Bandaranaike_%281862-1946%29.jpg)
Solomon Dias Bandaranaike born 22 May
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- Solomon Dias Bandaranaike (d. 1946)
- Enrico Brunetti, British musician and entomologist (d. 1927)
- Henry Cowan, politician in the United Kingdom (d. 1932)
- Hans Schmaus, German pathologist (d. 1905)
- Nathaniel Schmidt (d. 1939)
- May 23
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Dummy_Hoy.jpg/110px-Dummy_Hoy.jpg)
Dummy Hoy born 23 May
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- Hermann Gunkel (d. 1932)
- Yrjö Halonen, Finnish cantor (d. 1941)
- David George Hogarth, British archaeologist and scholar associated with T (d. 1927)
- Dummy Hoy (d. 1961)
- Eugene Zimmerman, Swiss cartoonist (d. 1935)
- May 24
- Allan Heywood Bright, British politician (d. 1941)
- Annie Chemis, Homemaker, dairy worker, petitioner, charwoman (d. 1939)
- Newton W. Gilbert, politician from Indiana (d. 1939)
- May 25
- Richard Kentfield, Cricketer (d. 1904)
- Bill G. Lowrey, American politician (d. 1947)
- May 26
- Henry John, English cricketer who played for Lancashire (d. 1941)
- Patrick O'Connor (d. 1923)
- May 27
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/Ed_Crane.jpg/110px-Ed_Crane.jpg)
Ed Crane (baseball) born 27 May
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- John Kendrick Bangs, American author and satirist (d. 1922)
- John Edward Campbell, Irish mathematician (d. 1924)
- Arthur Cocks, Australian politician (d. 1943)
- Ed Crane, Major League Baseball player (d. 1896)
- Francis Llewellyn Griffith, eminent British Egyptologist (d. 1934)
- Charles Hoggins, Australian politician (d. 1923)
- May 28
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Henry_Slocum.jpg/110px-Henry_Slocum.jpg)
Henry Slocum (tennis) born 28 May
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- Edward Treacher Collins, English surgeon and ophthalmologist (d. 1932)
- Theodor Fischer, German architect and teacher (d. 1938)
- Amos E. Germer, American politician and lawyer (d. 1935)
- Henry Slocum, American male tennis player (d. 1949)
- Andrei Zarin, Russian writer (d. 1929)
- May 29 – Alfred Jørgen Bryn, Norwegian patent engineer (d. 1937)
- May 30
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Sabir.jpg/110px-Sabir.jpg)
Mirza Alakbar Sabir born 30 May
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- Anton Ažbe, Slovenian artist (d. 1905)
- Kristian Magdalon Bing, Norwegian jurist and mountaineer (d. 1935)
- Konstantin Fofanov, Russian poet (d. 1911)
- Eduard Heyck, German poet (d. 1941)
- Anders Nielsen, Danish politician (d. 1914)
- Courtice Pounds (d. 1927)
- Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Azerbaijani poet (d. 1911)
- May 31 – Cynthia May Alden, teacher, editor (d. 1931)
June
- June 1 – Charles Jesson, British politician (d. 1926)
- June 2
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Prof.Julius_Tafel.jpg/110px-Prof.Julius_Tafel.jpg)
Julius Tafel born 2 June
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- William Cross Barratt, British general (d. 1940)
- Adolf des Coudres, Painter (d. 1924)
- Émile Mâle, French art historian (d. 1954)
- Friedrich Rathgen, German chemist (d. 1942)
- Julius Tafel, Swiss chemist (d. 1918)
- Thomas Fleming Wilson, British politician (d. 1929)
- June 3
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ambrose_E._B._Stephens_npcc.20878.jpg/110px-Ambrose_E._B._Stephens_npcc.20878.jpg)
Ambrose E. B. Stephens born 3 June
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- Humfrey Anger, Canadian music educator (d. 1913)
- George Cory, South African historian and chemist (d. 1935)
- Gaston Rivierre, French racing cyclist (d. 1942)
- Ambrose E. B. Stephens, American politician (d. 1927)
- June 4
- Camille Decoppet, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1912–1919) (d. 1925)
- Catherine Waugh McCulloch, American lawyer and noted suffragist (d. 1945)
- June 5
- Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg, Austrian politician (d. 1931)
- Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
- Richard Jose, Singer (d. 1941)
- June 6 – Henry Newbolt (d. 1938)
- June 7
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Phillipp_Lenard_in_1900.jpg/110px-Phillipp_Lenard_in_1900.jpg)
Philipp Lenard born 7 June
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- Fernando Díaz de Mendoza y Aguado, Spanish actor (d. 1930)
- Alexander Barbour, Scottish footballer (d. 1930)
- Alice Van Vechten Brown (d. 1949)
- Aubrey FitzClarence, 4th Earl of Munster, British peer (d. 1928)
- Philipp Lenard, Hungarian–German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1947)
- Phil Reccius, Major League Baseball player (d. 1902)
- June 8
- John Dunn, Cricketer (d. 1892)
- Tom Lee, American baseball player (d. 1886)
- Ole Jacob Skattum, Norwegian politician (d. 1930)
- David Ogden Watkins, American mayor (d. 1938)
- June 9
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Herbert_Baker00.jpg/110px-Herbert_Baker00.jpg)
Herbert Baker born 9 June
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- Herbert Baker (d. 1946)
- John Franklin Miller (d. 1936)
- Lyman T. Tingier, American politician (d. 1920)
- Luigi Trinchero, Italian sculptor (d. 1944)
- June 10
- Caroline Louise Dudley, later (Mrs. Leslie Carter), American stage and silent screen actress (d. 1937)
- John de Robeck, British admiral (d. 1928)
- June 11
- Johann Dietrich Alfken, German entomologist (d. 1945)
- Rodolfo Benini, Italian statistician (d. 1956)
- John Coleman (d. 1905)
- Edward Thomas Connold, English naturalist and author with a particular interest in oak galls (d. 1910)
- John Daniel FitzGerald, Australian politician (d. 1922)
- Violet Florence Martin, Irish author, co-wrote novels with cousin Edith Somerville under the pen name of Martin Ross (died 1915)
- Ralph W. Thomas, American politician (d. 1920)
- June 12
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Jamesbrady.jpg/110px-Jamesbrady.jpg)
James H. Brady born 12 June
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- James H. Brady, Republican politician from Idaho (d. 1918)
- William Carter, British politician (d. 1932)
- Philippe A. Guye, chemist that was awarded the Davy Medal in 1921 "for his researches in physical chemistry" (d. 1922)
- Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, German novelist and playwright (d. 1934)
- Edgar Smith, Major League Baseball player (d. 1892)
- Alexander Spitzmüller, Austrian politician (d. 1953)
- Winthrop E. Stone, professor of chemistry and served as the president of Purdue University from 1900–1921 (d. 1921)
- June 13
- Frederick Baume, New Zealand politician (d. 1910)
- Cyrus L. Lathrop, American politician and farmer (d. 1941)
- June 14
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/GeorgeBenjaminNichols1891.jpg/110px-GeorgeBenjaminNichols1891.jpg)
George Nichols (cricketer) born 14 June
-
- Frank Buchanan, American politician (d. 1930)
- William Carr, British biographer (d. 1925)
- Herbert Dicksee (d. 1942)
- John J. Glennon, Irish American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1946)
- Forrest Goodwin, American politician (d. 1913)
- Max Linde, German art collector (d. 1940)
- John Ulric Nef, American chemist (d. 1915)
- George Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1911)
- June 15
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Otto_Wiener_%28physicist%29.jpg/110px-Otto_Wiener_%28physicist%29.jpg)
Otto Wiener (physicist) born 15 June
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/James_Taft_Hatfield_%28cropped%29.jpg/110px-James_Taft_Hatfield_%28cropped%29.jpg)
James Taft Hatfield born 15 June
-
- William Carlile, British politician (d. 1950)
- Edwin G. Fifield, American businessman and politician (d. 1925)
- Frantz Funck-Brentano, French historian (d. 1947)
- James Taft Hatfield, American philologist and professor at Northwestern University (d. 1945)
- George Helmore, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 1922)
- John Poyntz Tyler, American bishop (d. 1931)
- Peek-A-Boo Veach, Major League Baseball player (d. 1937)
- Otto Wiener, German physicst (d. 1927)
- June 16
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Alma_White_01b.jpg/110px-Alma_White_01b.jpg)
Alma Bridwell White born 16 June
-
- Richard Beamish, Irish politician and company director (d. 1938)
- Henry C. Christians, American businessman and politician (d. 1945)
- Olaf Frydenlund, Sport shooter (d. 1947)
- Manuel Antonio Mesones Muro, Peruvian explorer (d. 1930)
- Tommy Taylor, Christchurch mayor (d. 1911)
- Alma Bridwell White, founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church (d. 1946)
- June 17
- Gerard D'Arcy-Irvine, Anglican coadjutor bishop (d. 1932)
- Arthur Letts, American businessman (d. 1923)
- Edward Nicholl, British politician (d. 1939)
- June 18
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Charlie_Ganzel.jpg/110px-Charlie_Ganzel.jpg)
Charlie Ganzel born 18 June
-
- John Lement Bacon, Vermont State Treasurer (d. 1909)
- Dick Blaisdell, American baseball player (d. 1886)
- Charlie Ganzel, American baseball player (d. 1914)
- Otto Immisch, German philologist (d. 1932)
- Carolyn Wells, United States author and poet (d. 1942)
- June 19 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (d. 1952)
- June 20 – James Edward Ignatius Masterson (d. 1935)
- June 21
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Prince_Damrong_Rajanubhab.jpg/110px-Prince_Damrong_Rajanubhab.jpg)
Damrong Rajanubhab born 21 June
-
- George Henry Chamberlain, American legislator (d. 1943)
- Arthur James Grant, British historian (d. 1948)
- Henry Holden Huss, American composer (d. 1953)
- Archibald MacMechan, Canadian academic (d. 1933)
- Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
- Humphry Rolleston, British baronet (d. 1944)
- Johannes Schlaf, Playwright and author (d. 1941)
- June 22
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Lule-Warrenton.jpg/110px-Lule-Warrenton.jpg)
Lule Warrenton born 22 June
-
- Arthur Ferguson, British police officer (d. 1935)
- Havelock Hudson, British Indian Army general (d. 1944)
- Blaise-Ferdinand Letellier, Canadian politician (d. 1930)
- Lule Warrenton, American actress (d. 1932)
- June 23
- William Woodward Baldwin, American lawyer and government official (d. 1954)
- Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, American mathematician (d. 1931)
- Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll, Dutch entomologist (d. 1924)
- Geraldine Ulmar, American singer and actress (d. 1932)
- June 24
- Emilio Bobadilla, Cuban writer (d. 1921)
- Claude George Drummond Hay, British politician and businessman (d. 1920)
- George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis, British peer (d. 1952)
- Chris Knutsen, American guitar maker (d. 1930)
- Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, German prince (d. 1885)
- June 25
- Herbert Brereton Baker, British chemist (d. 1935)
- Thomas Wegner Larsen Haaland, Norwegian politician (d. 1935)
- June 26
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/General_Harry_Taylor_cph.3b34316.jpg/110px-General_Harry_Taylor_cph.3b34316.jpg)
Harry Taylor (engineer) born 26 June
-
- Eberhard Fraas, geologist (d. 1915)
- John Hay (d. 1925)
- Frank Liddell, Australian politician (d. 1939)
- Harry Taylor, U (d. 1930)
- June 27
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Irwin_postcard.jpg/110px-Irwin_postcard.jpg)
May Irwin born 27 June
-
- May Irwin, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1938)
- J. A. Loggie, American politician (d. 1936)
- Johann Puch (d. 1914)
- Ernest Leopold Sichel, Painter (d. 1941)
- John Simpkins, American politician (d. 1898)
- June 28
- Peter of Krutitsy, Russian Orthodox bishop and martyr (d. 1937)
- Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel, German gynaecologist (d. 1909)
- Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle, British MP (d. 1937)
- June 29
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/WilliamJohnstonTupper.jpg/110px-WilliamJohnstonTupper.jpg)
William Johnston Tupper born 29 June
-
- August Hjelt, Finnish politician (d. 1919)
- Gustav Imroth, South African businessman (d. 1948)
- Adolf Loewy, German physiologist (d. 1937)
- William Johnston Tupper, politician and office holder in Manitoba (d. 1947)
- June 30
- Tug Arundel, American baseball player (d. 1912)
- Charles Hobhouse (d. 1941)
- John Hulme, Cricketer (d. 1940)
July
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Besim_%C3%96mer_Akalin.jpg/110px-Besim_%C3%96mer_Akalin.jpg)
Besim Ömer Akalın born 1 July
-
- Besim Ömer Akalın, Physician (d. 1940)
- Henri Lammens, Orientalist historian and Jesuit (d. 1937)
- George W. Storter, Jr., trader and founder of Everglades City (d. 1931)
- Fred Townsend, American politician (d. 1918)
- David White (d. 1935)
- July 2
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/William_Henry_Bragg_Nobel_bw.jpg/110px-William_Henry_Bragg_Nobel_bw.jpg)
William Henry Bragg born 2 July
-
- William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
- Christopher Cradock, British admiral (d. 1914)
- Alicia O'Shea Petersen (d. 1923)
- Fiske Warren, American philanthropist (d. 1938)
- July 3
- Theodor Aaset, Politician (d. 1914)
- Tristram T. Hyde, mayor of Charleston (d. 1931)
- Friedrich Koch, German composer, cellist and teacher (d. 1927)
- James E. Plew, Chicago businessman (d. 1938)
- Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 3rd Baronet, British Baronet (d. 1929)
- July 4
- Walter L. Fisher (d. 1935)
- William Henry Hunt Gleason, American politician (d. 1949)
- July 5
- Horatio Caro, British chess player (d. 1920)
- Alice Underwood Fitch, American painter (d. 1936)
- George Nuttall, British bacteriologist (d. 1937)
- July 7
- Charles Boxshall, Australian-born New Zealand wicket-keeper who played first-class cricket (d. 1924)
- Ludwig Fulda, German playwright and a poet with a strong social commitment (d. 1939)
- July 8
- Ella Reeve Bloor, American labor organizer and long-time activist in the socialist and communist movements (d. 1951)
- William Coverdale, English County cricketer (d. 1934)
- Sarah Ann Henley, British bartender (d. 1948)
- July 9
- Albert Hilton, English cricketer (d. 1935)
- Isidore Konti, Vienna-born (of Hungarian parents) sculptor (d. 1938)
- July 10
- Samuel J. Foley, American politician from New York (d. 1922)
- Theodore Marburg, American jurist (d. 1946)
- Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (d. 1946)
- Walter I. Smith, United States federal judge (d. 1922)
- July 11
- Liza Lehmann, English operatic soprano and composer (d. 1918)
- Charles Frederick Menninger, American physician (d. 1952)
- July 12 – James McKay (d. 1931)
- July 13
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/George_E._Smith.jpg/110px-George_E._Smith.jpg)
George E. Smith (gambler) born 13 July
-
- Samuel David Alexander, Croatian Jewish industrialist (d. 1943)
- Mary Foy, American librarian (d. 1962)
- Georg Lasson, German theologian (d. 1932)
- Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia, Russian grand duke (d. 1879)
- George E. Smith, American gambler (d. 1905)
- July 14
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Klimt.jpg/110px-Klimt.jpg)
Gustav Klimt born 14 July
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Florence_Bascom2.jpg/110px-Florence_Bascom2.jpg)
Florence Bascom born 14 July
-
- Florence Bascom, Geologist (d. 1945)
- Willie Campbell, Professional golfer (d. 1900)
- Law Daniels, American baseball player (d. 1929)
- Albert Keates, British organ builder (d. 1949)
- Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist (d. 1918)
- Henri Vanwaetermeulen, French general (d. 1918)
- James Cromar Watt, Scottish architect (d. 1940)
- Heinrich Zimmern, Assyriologist (d. 1931)
- July 15
Ernest Troubridge born 15 July
-
- Richard Eckermann, German admiral (d. 1916)
- Frank Putnam Flint, politician and banker (d. 1929)
- James Nicholas Kehoe, Member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky (d. 1945)
- Edwin F. Leonard, American politician (d. 1931)
- Percy de Paravicini, English footballer (d. 1921)
- Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath (d. 1946)
- Ernest Troubridge, Royal Navy officer during the First World War (d. 1926)
- July 16
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Mary_Garrity_-_Ida_B._Wells-Barnett_-_Google_Art_Project_-_restoration_crop.jpg/110px-Mary_Garrity_-_Ida_B._Wells-Barnett_-_Google_Art_Project_-_restoration_crop.jpg)
Ida B. Wells born 16 July
-
- Ada Blanche (d. 1953)
- George Kessler, German American pioneer city planner and landscape architect (d. 1923)
- Ida B. Wells, American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931)
- Jesse F. West, American politician (d. 1929)
- July 17
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Dev_Shamsher_Jang_Bahadur_Rana.jpg/110px-Dev_Shamsher_Jang_Bahadur_Rana.jpg)
Dev Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana born 17 July
-
- Oscar Levertin, Swedish poet (d. 1906)
- Dev Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana (d. 1914)
- Herbert Smith, British politician (d. 1938)
- Konrad Wagner, Physician (d. 1948)
- July 18
- Harry Tate, English cricketer (d. 1949)
- Alfred Burke Thompson, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
- John Lee Wortham, American businessman and politician (d. 1924)
- July 19
- H. Cooper Cliffe, British stage and screen actor (d. 1939)
- Henry Jones, Australian businessman (d. 1926)
- July 20
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Eustice_3121123268_bf067ac64e_o.jpg/110px-Eustice_3121123268_bf067ac64e_o.jpg)
William Corcoran Eustis born 20 July
-
- Fyodor Braun, German academic (d. 1942)
- Paul Bujor, Romanian zoologist who specialized in animal morphology (d. 1952)
- William Corcoran Eustis, United States Army officer (d. 1921)
- Sidney Rowlatt, English barrister and judge (d. 1945)
- July 21
- John Wycliffe Black, British politician (d. 1951)
- Willie Kavanaugh Hocker, Designer of the Flag of Arkansas (d. 1944)
- July 22
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/CosmoDuffGordon.jpg/110px-CosmoDuffGordon.jpg)
Cosmo Duff-Gordon born 22 July
-
- Thomas Ball Barratt, Norwegian pastor (d. 1940)
- Red Bittmann, American baseball player (d. 1929)
- Cosmo Duff-Gordon (d. 1931)
- Gus Elen, British singer (d. 1940)
- Warren Hale, Cricketer (d. 1934)
- Lucien Poincaré, French physicist (d. 1920)
- July 23
- Frederick W. Sims, American maypr (d. 1925)
- Timothy Sullivan, New York politician who controlled Manhattan's Bowery (d. 1913)
- Benjamin Zimmerman, Canadian businessman (d. 1923)
- July 24
- James Percy FitzPatrick, South African businessman and writer (d. 1931)
- W. H. Whiting, Jr., American academic administrator (d. 1949)
- July 25
- Norma Borthwick, British artist and writer and an Irish language activist (d. 1934)
- Joseph Marshall, English cricketer (d. 1913)
- James Tolmie (d. 1939)
- July 26
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Miguel_Lillo.jpg/110px-Miguel_Lillo.jpg)
Miguel Lillo born 26 July
-
- Edwin Burr Babbitt, United States general (d. 1939)
- William Bleasdell Cameron (d. 1951)
- George B. Cortelyou, American Presidential Cabinet secretary (d. 1940)
- John Hinds, British politician (d. 1928)
- Vasil Kanchov, Bulgarian historian (d. 1902)
- Miguel Lillo, Argentine naturalist and professor (d. 1931)
- July 27
- T. C. Van Eaton, American politician (d. 1951)
- Joan Mary Fry, Quaker Social Reformer and relief worker (d. 1955)
- Henry Alfred Pegram, British artist (d. 1937)
- Franz Albert Seyn (d. 1918)
- Arthur Vicars, English-born genealogist and heraldic expert who lived in Ireland (d. 1921)
- July 28
- John Ford, American politician (d. 1941)
- Charles Hoar, Cricketer (d. 1913)
- Fritz Syberg, Painter, illustrator (d. 1939)
- July 29
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Colonel_S._P._Rolt.jpg/110px-Colonel_S._P._Rolt.jpg)
Stuart Peter Rolt born 29 July
-
- Eduard Brückner, Austrian scientist (d. 1927)
- Alexandru Ionescu, Labour activist (d. 1929)
- Mona McBurney, Pianist and composer (d. 1932)
- Robert Lewis Reid, American Impressionist painter and muralist (d. 1929)
- Stuart Peter Rolt, British Army general (d. 1933)
- July 30
- A.R. Pardington, Civil engineer (d. 1915)
- Božena Viková-Kunětická, Czech nationalist politician (d. 1934)
- July 31
- James Brown, English footballer (d. 1922)
- Augustus Clark, Cricketer (d. 1928)
- George Edward Mannering, Banker, mountaineer, writer (d. 1947)
- Robert Naumann, American farmer (d. 1926)
- Alan Rotherham, English rugby union player (d. 1898)
August
- August 1
- Hermann Brunn, German mathematician (d. 1939)
- John Drughorn, British businessman (d. 1943)
- M. R. James (d. 1936)
- August 2
- William Ashbie Hawkins, American lawyer (d. 1941)
- Arthur Headlam, British bishop (d. 1947)
- Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian bureaucrat (d. 1947)
- August 3 – Samuel Pethebridge, Australian general (d. 1918)
- August 4
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Gustav_von_Seyffertitz_in_Mystery_Liner.jpg/110px-Gustav_von_Seyffertitz_in_Mystery_Liner.jpg)
Gustav von Seyffertitz born 4 August
-
- Albert Gran, Norwegian born (d. 1932)
- John Keppie, Scottish architect (d. 1945)
- John Jeremiah Lawler, Catholic bishop (d. 1948)
- George Lawton, English footballer (d. 1930)
- Gustav von Seyffertitz, German film actor and director (d. 1943)
- Dharma Man Tuladhar (d. 1938)
- August 5
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Joseph_Merrick_carte_de_visite_photo%2C_c._1889.jpg/110px-Joseph_Merrick_carte_de_visite_photo%2C_c._1889.jpg)
Joseph Merrick born 5 August
-
- Andrew William Barton, British politician (d. 1957)
- Marcel Baschet, Portrait painter (d. 1941)
- Lucy Everest Boole, British chemist (d. 1904)
- Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man", English sufferer from deformities (d. 1890)
- Robert Mills-Roberts, Footballer & surgeon (d. 1935)
- Knud Arne Petersen, Danish architect (d. 1943)
- August 6
Elizabeth Robins born 6 August
-
- Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (d. 1932)
- Armand Rassenfosse, Belgian artist (d. 1934)
- Marcus Ravenswaaij, Dutch sport shooter (d. 1919)
- Elizabeth Robins, actress (d. 1952)
- August 7
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Rudolf-eickemeyer-portrait.jpg/110px-Rudolf-eickemeyer-portrait.jpg)
Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. born 7 August
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- Paul Auguste Danguy, French botanist (d. 1942)
- Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., Photographer (d. 1932)
- Jim Gray, American baseball player (d. 1938)
- Henri Le Sidaner, French painter (d. 1939)
- William Walton, English cricketer (d. 1925)
- August 8
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Edward_Kent%2C_Jr.jpg/110px-Edward_Kent%2C_Jr.jpg)
Edward Kent, Jr. born 8 August
-
- Edward Kent, Jr., American jurist (d. 1916)
- Hermann Lemp, Electrical engineer (d. 1954)
- Mary Virginia Cook Parrish, American activist (d. 1945)
- William Reynolds-Stephens, British artist (d. 1943)
- August 9
- Hubert Burge, British bishop (d. 1925)
- Gangadhar Meher, Indian writer (d. 1924)
- James Menzies, Australian politician representing Lowan (d. 1945)
- David Philipson, American Reform rabbi (d. 1949)
- Blamire Young, English artist (d. 1935)
- August 10
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/Conant.jpg/110px-Conant.jpg)
James Wallace Conant born 10 August
-
- Jørgen Brunchorst, Norwegian natural scientist (d. 1917)
- James Wallace Conant, American businessman (d. 1906)
- William Hussey, American astronomer (d. 1926)
- Ernst R. Kroeger, American composer (d. 1934)
- Charles Margrett, Cricketer (d. 1941)
- Victor Félix Schiffner, Austrian bryologist (d. 1944)
- August 11
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Brig-Gen_David_Henderson.jpg/110px-Brig-Gen_David_Henderson.jpg)
David Henderson (British Army officer) born 11 August
-
- David Henderson (d. 1921)
- Ivan Ivanov, Russian mathematician (d. 1939)
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond, American singer (d. 1946)
- Nurse Maude, Hospital matron, district nurse, social worker (d. 1935)
- August 12
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Julius_Rosenwald_02.jpg/110px-Julius_Rosenwald_02.jpg)
Julius Rosenwald born 12 August
-
- Martin Brendel, German astronomer (d. 1939)
- Josef Alois Kessler, Catholic bishop (d. 1933)
- John C. Lodge, influential politician from Detroit (d. 1950)
- Jules Richard, French mathematician (d. 1956)
- Julius Rosenwald, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1932)
- James Cranswick Tory, Canadian politician (d. 1944)
- August 13
- Cassiano Conzatti (d. 1951)
- Basil Peto, British politician (d. 1945)
- August 14
- Frank Broadstreet Carvell, Canadian politician (d. 1924)
- Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant, Australian academic (d. 1936)
- August 15
- William Henry Kelson, British doctor (d. 1940)
- Ivar Lantto, Finnish schoolteacher (d. 1938)
- Fernanda Nissen, Norwegian politician and journalist (d. 1920)
- August 16
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/AAStagg-1906.jpg/110px-AAStagg-1906.jpg)
Amos Alonzo Stagg born 16 August
-
- Dora Bright, English composer and pianist (d. 1951)
- Paul Aloysius Kenna (d. 1915)
- James McLachlan, Australian politician (d. 1938)
- Francis Pember, Cricketer (d. 1954)
- Ludwig Hermann Plate, German zoologist (d. 1937)
- Amos Alonzo Stagg, American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports (d. 1965)
- August 17 – Sterling P. Strong, American politician (d. 1936)
- August 18
- Nicholas Grattan-Doyle, British politician (d. 1941)
- Carl-Emil Johansson, Olympic tug of war competitor (d. 1938)
- Harry Koons, Major League Baseball third baseman (d. 1932)
- Henry Lapp, American cabinetmaker (d. 1904)
- Frederick Cayley Robinson, British artist (d. 1927)
- Thomas Townley, Canadian lawyer and the eighth Mayor of Vancouver (d. 1935)
- August 19 – C. V. Hartman, Swedish botanist and anthropologist (d. 1941)
- August 20
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Omar_Mukhtar_13.jpg/110px-Omar_Mukhtar_13.jpg)
Omar Mukhtar born 20 August
-
- Jesse Carleton, Amateur golfer (d. 1921)
- Bertram Cubitt, British civil servant (d. 1942)
- John S. McGroarty, American politician (d. 1944)
- Omar Mukhtar (d. 1931)
- Paul Stäckel, German mathematician (d. 1919)
- August 21
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Burr-mcintosh-1904.jpg/110px-Burr-mcintosh-1904.jpg)
Burr McIntosh born 21 August
-
- Louis-Philippe Brodeur, Canadian journalist (d. 1924)
- Victor de Cottens, French playwright and director (d. 1956)
- Burr McIntosh (d. 1942)
- Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (d. 1911)
- James Lorrain Smith, British pathologist (d. 1931)
- August 22
- Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- Hjalmar von Sydow, Swedish politician (d. 1932)
- Ed Yewell, American baseball player (d. 1940)
- August 23
- Frederic Geeson, English cricketer (d. 1920)
- Jan Kotrč, Czech chess master (d. 1943)
- August 24
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/M%C3%A9hely-Lajos-1862-1952.jpg/110px-M%C3%A9hely-Lajos-1862-1952.jpg)
Lajos Méhelÿ born 24 August
-
- Zonia Baber, geologist and geographer (d. 1955)
- Leland Lewis Duncan, British antiquarian (d. 1923)
- Samuel A. Eliot, American Unitarian minister (d. 1950)
- David H. Jarvis, United States Revenue Cutter Service officer (d. 1911)
- Lajos Méhelÿ, Hungarian zoologist (d. 1953)
- Arthur Turner, Korean bishop (d. 1910)
- August 25
- Albert Derrick, Australian philatelist (d. 1931)
- Steve Fairbairn, rower and an influential rowing coach at Jesus College Boat Club (d. 1938)
- Hank Simon, American baseball player (d. 1925)
- August 26
- Marion Bidder, English physiologist and one of the first women to do independent research in Cambridge (d. 1932)
- Herbert Booth, English-born Salvationist, third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
- Alfred Gudeman, American-German classical scholar (d. 1942)
- Theodor Siebs, German linguist (d. 1941)
- August 27
- James Bilsborrow, Catholic bishop (d. 1931)
- William M. K. Olcott, American politician and lawyer (d. 1933)
- August 28 – Roberto Marcolongo, Italian mathematician (d. 1943)
- August 29
Andrew Fisher born 29 August
-
- James Joseph Butler, American politician (d. 1917)
- William Cookson, Indian-born English cricketer who played for Somerset (d. 1922)
- Andrew Fisher, Scottish-born fifth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
- S. M. Holden, British journalist and political activist (d. 1943)
- Fred Huntley, Actor, Film director (d. 1931)
- David Kldiashvili, Georgian writer (d. 1931)
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
- Cyrus C. Yawkey, American businessman and politician (d. 1943)
- August 30
- John Brodie, English footballer (d. 1925)
- Lawrence C. Phipps, United States Senator representing Colorado from 1919 until 1931 (d. 1958)
- C. M. Ridding, Sanskrit scholar (d. 1941)
- August 31
- Hector Caron, Canadian politician (d. 1937)
- William Gray, manufacturer and political figure in Ontario (d. 1916)
September
- September 1
- Adolphe Appia (d. 1928)
- Radó von Kövesligethy, Hungarian physicist (d. 1934)
- Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse, Canadian circus owner (d. 1931)
- September 2
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Frederick_Buscombe_Vancouver.jpg/110px-Frederick_Buscombe_Vancouver.jpg)
Frederick Buscombe born 2 September
-
- Frederick Buscombe, 11th Mayor of Vancouver (d. 1938)
- Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (d. 1921)
- Riley Hatch, Silent film actor (d. 1925)
- Harry van Heerden, South African politician (d. 1933)
- Franjo Krežma (d. 1881)
- Stanisław Narutowicz (d. 1932)
- William Shipway, Australian politician (d. 1925)
- September 3
- Ira Aten, American sheriff (d. 1953)
- Moses Hyamson, British rabbi (d. 1949)
- Florence Maybrick, American murderer (d. 1941)
- September 4
- John de Mestre Hutchison, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1932)
- Hermann Winnefeld, German archaeologist (d. 1918)
- September 5
Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet born 5 September
-
- Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston, Academic administrator, biographer, and clergyman (d. 1942)
- Denis St. George Daly, Polo player (d. 1942)
- Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1935)
- Addison T. Smith, American politician (d. 1956)
- September 6
- G. Aubrey Goodman, Malaysian judge (d. 1921)
- John Green, British agriculturalist (d. 1953)
- Guyon Purchas, Australian architect (d. 1940)
- September 7
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sir_Edgar_Speyer.jpg/110px-Sir_Edgar_Speyer.jpg)
Edgar Speyer born 7 September
-
- Violet Cameron, English actress (d. 1919)
- Ed Daily, American baseball player (d. 1891)
- Benno Jacob, German rabbi (d. 1945)
- Mike McDermott, American baseball player (d. 1943)
- Rudolf Much, Austrian academic (d. 1936)
- David Shanahan (d. 1936)
- Edgar Speyer, British-American financier and philanthropist (d. 1932)
- September 8
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Horace-kephart-1906.jpg/110px-Horace-kephart-1906.jpg)
Horace Kephart born 8 September
-
- Mariano Benlliure, Spanish artist (d. 1947)
- Gordon C. Greene, Steamship captain (d. 1927)
- Célestin Hennion, French head of the Prefecture of Police (d. 1915)
- Gaillard Hunt, American writer (d. 1924)
- Horace Kephart, American writer (d. 1931)
- Venkata Ranga Rao, Indian knight (d. 1921)
- Cecil Wilson, British politician (d. 1945)
- September 9
- Charles Dobson, English footballer (d. 1939)
- Charles Fey, American inventor (d. 1944)
- Albert Piddington, shortest serving Justice of the High Court of Australia (d. 1945)
- September 10
- Ivane Andronikashvili (d. 1947)
- Olof Hanson, American architect (d. 1933)
- Christopher de Paus, papal count (d. 1943)
- September 11
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Julian_Byng.jpg/110px-Julian_Byng.jpg)
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy born 11 September
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Dr_crippen.jpg/110px-Dr_crippen.jpg)
Hawley Harvey Crippen born 11 September
-
- Frank Beal, American actor and film director of the silent film era (d. 1934)
- Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (d. 1938)
- Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British general, 12th Governor General of Canada (d. 1935)
- Hawley Harvey Crippen, American-born medical practitioner and uxoricide (hanged 1910)
- Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, Dutch-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1940)
- Joseph Gonzales, politician and American businessman (d. 1940)
- Augustin Henninghaus, German missionary and bishop (d. 1939)
- O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, American short-story writer (d. 1910)
- John Maden, British politician (d. 1920)
- September 12
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Carl_Eytel%2C_artist%2C_sketching_on_his_pad_during_his_trip_with_George_Wharton_James_to_the_Colorado_River%2C_ca.1900_%28CHS-4299%29.jpg/110px-Carl_Eytel%2C_artist%2C_sketching_on_his_pad_during_his_trip_with_George_Wharton_James_to_the_Colorado_River%2C_ca.1900_%28CHS-4299%29.jpg)
Carl Eytel born 12 September
-
- Carl Eytel, German American artist, painted and drew desert subjects in the American Southwest (d. 1925)
- William Holmes (d. 1917)
- Charles Melliss (d. 1936)
- Frank Hamilton Short, American lawyer (d. 1920)
- September 13 – Charles S. Dana, American politician (d. 1939)
- September 14
- Wilfred Bolton, English rugby union player (d. 1930)
- Eugen Ehrlich, Austrian legal scholar and sociologist of law (d. 1922)
- Dawes Hicks, British philosopher (d. 1941)
- Giulio Salvadori, Italian poet (d. 1928)
- A. G. Stephen, Scottish banker (d. 1924)
- September 15
- Jack Brennan, American baseball player (d. 1914)
- Henry Chesson, Australian politician (d. 1948)
- Elmer Cleveland, American baseball player (d. 1913)
- Claude Farrer, British tennis player (d. 1890)
- Edmund Otis Hovey, American geologist (d. 1924)
- Friedrich von Lindequist, German colonial official (d. 1945)
- September 16
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Selden_Palmer_Spencer.jpg/110px-Selden_Palmer_Spencer.jpg)
Selden P. Spencer born 16 September
-
- Félix Dubois, French journalist and explorer (d. 1945)
- Edwin Mortimer Hopkins, university professor and American football coach (d. 1946)
- Thomas Baker Jones, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1959)
- Selden P. Spencer, American politician (d. 1925)
- John Taiaroa (d. 1907)
- September 17
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/KennyBurn.jpg/110px-KennyBurn.jpg)
Kenneth Burn born 17 September
-
- Anna Bugge, Norwegian feminist (d. 1928)
- Kenneth Burn (d. 1956)
- Samuel Jay Crumbine, Public health pioneer (d. 1954)
- John Garland (d. 1921)
- Ernest Henty, politician (d. 1895)
- Jean de Madre, Polo player (d. 1934)
- September 18
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/The_Duke_of_Leeds_1906.jpg/110px-The_Duke_of_Leeds_1906.jpg)
George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds born 18 September
-
- Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1933)
- William Elliot Cairnes, British officer and military writer (d. 1902)
- Leonard Darlot, Australian politician (d. 1943)
- George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds, British politician (d. 1927)
- September 19
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Arvid_Lindman.jpg/110px-Arvid_Lindman.jpg)
Arvid Lindman born 19 September
-
- Carl Apstein, German zoologist (d. 1950)
- Juliusz Bursche, Polish bishop (d. 1942)
- Arvid Lindman, Swedish admiral, industrialist, and politician (d. 1936)
- Lefty Marr, American baseball player (d. 1912)
- Adeline De Walt Reynolds, American character actress who made her film debut at the age of 79 (1941) (d. 1961)
- September 20
- George P. B. Alderman, Architect (d. 1929)
- Louis Dalton, Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician (d. 1945)
- Eustaquio Ilundáin y Esteban, Catholic cardinal (d. 1937)
- Bo Sweeney, United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior (d. 1917)
- Arnoldo Zocchi, noted Italian sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century (d. 1940)
- September 21
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Johan_Castberg_1900.jpg/110px-Johan_Castberg_1900.jpg)
Johan Castberg born 21 September
-
- Johan Castberg, Norwegian jurist and politician best known for representing the Radical People's Party (d. 1926)
- Maurice Chabas, French painter (d. 1947)
- Charles Dowse, Irish bishop (d. 1934)
- Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet (d. 1935)
- James E. Talmage, English chemist and geologist (d. 1933)
- September 22
- Frank Cooke, New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago and Nelson (d. 1933)
- Bob Keating, American baseball player (d. 1922)
- Alex Moffat, American football player (d. 1914)
- September 23
Kirke La Shelle born 23 September
-
- Denis Auguste Duchêne, French general (d. 1950)
- Marcus C. Lisle, American politician (d. 1894)
- Arthur Neal, British politician (d. 1933)
- Kirke La Shelle, American playwright and theatrical producer (d. 1905)
- September 24
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Harry_Ell%2C_1914.jpg/110px-Harry_Ell%2C_1914.jpg)
Harry Ell born 24 September
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/J%C3%BAlia_Lopes_de_Almeida.jpg/110px-J%C3%BAlia_Lopes_de_Almeida.jpg)
Júlia Lopes de Almeida born 24 September
-
- Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Brazilian writer (d. 1934)
- Olof Bergqvist, Swedish bishop (d. 1940)
- Cincinnatus Fabian D'Abreo, Pakistani politician (d. 1929)
- Harry Ell, New Zealand politician (d. 1934)
- Gertrude Kingston, British actor (d. 1937)
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill, American mathematician (d. 1951)
- William Sidebottom, Australian cricketer (d. 1948)
- Alfred Ford Skinner, politician from the U (d. 1931)
- Arnt Severin Ulstrup, Norwegian politician (d. 1922)
- September 25
- Léon Boëllmann, French composer of Alsatian origin (d. 1897)
- William J. Burke, American politician and businessman (d. 1925)
- Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
- September 26
- Victor Delbos, French historian and philosopher (d. 1916)
- Charles Heggie, Scottish footballer (d. 1925)
- John Bayne Maclean, Canadian publisher (d. 1950)
- George A. Stewart, American football coach (d. 1894)
- September 27
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Francis_Adams_%28writer%29_0001.jpg/110px-Francis_Adams_%28writer%29_0001.jpg)
Francis Adams (writer) born 27 September
-
- Francis Adams (d. 1893)
- Michael F. Blenski, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (d. 1932)
- Louis Botha, Boer general and first Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1919)
- Edward Manville, Electrical engineer (d. 1933)
- Paul Marchal, French entomologist (d. 1942)
- Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, Mexican architect (d. 1946)
- Thomas L. Rubey, American politician (d. 1928)
- September 28
- Philander Claxton, American educator (d. 1957)
- W. T. Goodge, writer (d. 1909)
- Violet Hunt, British author and literary hostess (d. 1942)
- September 29
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Ed_Morris_baseball_card.jpg/110px-Ed_Morris_baseball_card.jpg)
Ed Morris (1880s pitcher) born 29 September
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- Paul Bonwit, American businessman (d. 1939)
- Jack Barnato Joel, British businessman (d. 1940)
- Ed Morris, American baseball player (d. 1937)
- John Smith Murdoch (d. 1945)
- Kaew Nawarat, 36th and last King of Lanna and Prince Ruler of Chiang Mai (d. 1939)
- Fred Russell (d. 1957)
- September 30 – Wilton Lackaye, American actor (d. 1932)
October
- October 1
- Marie Henri Andoyer, Astronomer and mathematician (d. 1929)
- Charles Reynolds Brown, American writer (d. 1950)
- R. E. Burt, American mayor (d. 1943)
- Esther Boise Van Deman, leading archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (d. 1937)
- Francis Hill, English cricketer (d. 1935)
- October 2
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Frank_Sandford.jpg/110px-Frank_Sandford.jpg)
Frank Sandford born 2 October
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- Justus D. Barnes, American actor (d. 1946)
- Launcelot Kiggell, British Army general (d. 1954)
- Frank Sandford, American religious leader (d. 1948)
- Marty Sullivan, American baseball player (d. 1894)
- October 3
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Andrew_J._Montague.jpg/110px-Andrew_J._Montague.jpg)
Andrew Jackson Montague born 3 October
-
- Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
- Andrew Jackson Montague, American politician from Virginia (d. 1937)
- Cipriano Muñoz, 2nd Count of la Viñaza, Spanish diplomat (d. 1933)
- William Irvin Swoope, American politician (d. 1930)
- October 4
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Sebastian_Finsterwalder.jpg/110px-Sebastian_Finsterwalder.jpg)
Sebastian Finsterwalder born 4 October
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- Sebastian Finsterwalder, Bavarian mathematician and surveyor (d. 1951)
- Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Dutch artist (d. 1925)
- Nripendra Narayan (d. 1911)
- Edward Stratemeyer, American publisher and writer of children's fiction (d. 1930)
- October 5
- Thomas Henry Mahy, Guernsey poet (d. 1936)
- Wilhelm Solf, German scholar (d. 1936)
- October 6
- Joseph Weldon Bailey, United States Senator (d. 1929)
- Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and United States Senator from Indiana (d. 1927)
- Duncan E. McKinlay, American politician (d. 1914)
- October 7
- Harden Bennion, American politician (d. 1939)
- Loren E. Wheeler, American politician (d. 1932)
- October 8
- Charlie Manlove, American baseball player (d. 1952)
- Emil von Sauer (d. 1942)
- J. C. Tolmie, Canadian politician (d. 1938)
- October 9
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Fatma_Aliye_Topuz.jpg/110px-Fatma_Aliye_Topuz.jpg)
Fatma Aliye Topuz born 9 October
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- Powhatan Henry Clarke, United States Army officer and Indian Wars Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1893)
- Henry L. Myers, American politician (d. 1943)
- John M. Sell, Housepainter, interior decorator, Socialist legislator (d. 1930)
- Fatma Aliye Topuz, Turkish writer (d. 1936)
- October 10
- Dennis Driscoll, American baseball player (d. 1901)
- Arthur De Greef, Belgian pianist and composer (d. 1940)
- Ada Leverson, British writer, witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle, friend of Oscar Wilde (d. 1933)
- Émile Mayrisch, Luxembourgian industrialist (d. 1928)
- Peter Muldoon, Catholic bishop (d. 1927)
- Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld, French painter (d. 1960)
- Julius Tröger, German chemist (d. 1942)
- John G. Wallenmeier, Jr., American politician (d. 1917)
- October 11
- J. T. Grein, British impresario (d. 1935)
- Fleetwood Varley, Sport shooter (d. 1936)
- October 12
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mary_Kingsley_West_African_Studies.jpg/110px-Mary_Kingsley_West_African_Studies.jpg)
Mary Kingsley born 12 October
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- Theodor Boveri, German biologist (d. 1915)
- Mary Kingsley, English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer throughout West Africa (d. 1900)
- John F. Mitchell (d. 1943)
- Ferdinand Pfohl, German composer (d. 1949)
- October 13
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Herman_Lewis_McInnes.jpg/110px-Herman_Lewis_McInnes.jpg)
Herman McInnes born 13 October
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- Abang Haji Abdillah, Sarawak politician (d. 1946)
- Richard James Horatio Gottheil, American Semitic scholar (d. 1936)
- William John Hanna, Canadian politician (d. 1919)
- Herman McInnes, Canadian politician (d. 1923)
- October 14
- Samuel Cunningham, British politician (d. 1946)
- Alexander Guchkov, Russian politician (d. 1936)
- October 15
- Conrad Ansorge, German musician (d. 1930)
- Enrico Clerici, Italian mineralogist geologist (d. 1938)
- Christian Mølsted, Painter (d. 1930)
- October 16
- Hermann von Gottschall, German chess player (d. 1933)
- Anton Kraabel, North Dakota Republican Party politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (d. 1934)
- October 17
- Herbert Bealey Adshead, Canadian politician (d. 1932)
- Sophie Tatum LaCroix, designer and author (d. 1949)
- October 18
- Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952)
- Henry Leaf, British racquets player (d. 1931)
- October 19
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Fratelli_Lumiere.jpg/110px-Fratelli_Lumiere.jpg)
Auguste and Louis Lumière born 19 October
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- Bertram Tracy Clayton, American soldier and politician (d. 1918)
- Maurice Janin, French general (since April 20 (d. 1946)
- Auguste and Louis Lumière (d. 1948)
- Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
- Edhem Mulabdić, Bosniak writer (d. 1954)
- Marcel Sembat, French politician (d. 1922)
- October 20
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Maud_Nathan.jpg/110px-Maud_Nathan.jpg)
Maud Nathan born 20 October
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- Thomas Hastie Bryce, British anatomist (d. 1946)
- Friedrich Meinecke, German historian (d. 1954)
- Maud Nathan, American activist (d. 1946)
- Herbert Nield, British politician (d. 1932)
- Benjamin Bowditch Thayer, vice president of Anaconda Copper and served on the Naval Consulting Board (d. 1933)
- October 21
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/58/HegyeshalmiLajos.jpg/110px-HegyeshalmiLajos.jpg)
Lajos Hegyeshalmi born 21 October
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- John Findlay (d. 1929)
- Lajos Hegyeshalmi, Hungarian politician (d. 1925)
- Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton, British politician (d. 1937)
- Donald Murray, British politician (d. 1923)
- Folke Zettervall, Swedish architect (d. 1955)
- October 22
- James McAndrews, American politician (d. 1942)
- Sándor Popovics, Hungarian politician (d. 1935)
- October 23
- Domício da Gama, Brazilian journalist and diplomat (d. 1925)
- João Duarte de Sousa, Portuguese historian (d. 1909)
- October 24 – Abram W. Foote, Vermont businessman and politician (d. 1941)
- October 25
- Giuseppe Bastianelli, Italian scientist (d. 1959)
- Josiah Mills, English cricketer (d. 1929)
- Percival Turnbull, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1937)
- October 26
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Portrait_of_Hilma_af_Klint.jpg/110px-Portrait_of_Hilma_af_Klint.jpg)
Hilma af Klint born 26 October
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- David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans (d. 1948)
- Brinsley Hall, Australian politician (d. 1940)
- Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter (d. 1944)
- Nikolay Leontiev, Russian explorer (d. 1910)
- Thomas J. Preston, Jr., American Professor of Archeology at Princeton University (d. 1955)
- Edmond Savard, Canadian politician (d. 1925)
- October 27 – Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (d. 1928)
- October 28
- Pekka Ahmavaara, Finnish bank director and politician (d. 1929)
- Philip Martineau, English cricketer (d. 1944)
- October 29
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Charles_S_Farnsworth.jpg/110px-Charles_S_Farnsworth.jpg)
Charles S. Farnsworth born 29 October
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- Herbert Bainbridge, English cricketer (d. 1940)
- Vansittart Bowater, British politician (d. 1938)
- Charles S. Farnsworth, United States Army general (d. 1955)
- Wilfred Miller Vincent Koch, British surgeon and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (d. 1939)
- John Bernard O'Hara, Australian poet (d. 1927)
- October 30
- Anton Funtek, Poet, writer, editor and translator (d. 1932)
- Herbert Page, first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire (d. 1927)
- Henry Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester, peer and business man (d. 1962)
- October 31
- Mary Angela Dickens, British novelist and journalist of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras (d. 1948)
- Hardie Henderson, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1903)
- Gerald Horsley, British architect (d. 1917)
November
- November 1
- Endre Hadik-Barkóczy, Hungarian politician (d. 1931)
- Emil Kolben, Entrepreneur (d. 1943)
- Feliks Koneczny (d. 1949)
- Edward McCormick, English cricketer active from 1880 to 1890 who played for Sussex (d. 1941)
- Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1941)
- November 2 – Ondřej Přikryl, Czech and Moravian politician (d. 1936)
- November 3
- Orren D. Casselman, Canadian politician (d. 1950)
- Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)
- Charles Mercer Snelling, President of the University of Georgia (d. 1939)
- November 4
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Jean_Blewett_%28cropped%29.jpg/110px-Jean_Blewett_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Jean Blewett born 4 November
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- Jean Blewett, Canadian writer (d. 1934)
- Annie McVicar, Community worker, local politician (d. 1954)
- Eden Phillpotts, English author (d. 1960)
- Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor (d. 1932)
- Jón Stefánsson, Icelandic writer and academic (d. 1952)
- István Thomán, Hungarian musician (d. 1940)
- November 5
- Alexandre Bigot, French artist (d. 1927)
- Leonardo Castellanos y Castellanos, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1912)
- Thomas William Heney, Australian writer (d. 1928)
- Frederick Hickford, Australian politician (d. 1929)
- William Horwood, Canadian politician (d. 1945)
- Jim McElroy, Major League Baseball player (d. 1889)
- Patrick Stirling, English footballer (d. 1925)
- November 6
- Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson, British politician (d. 1936)
- Edward Bulfin, British Army General (d. 1939)
- November 7
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/KneiselQuartet.jpg/110px-KneiselQuartet.jpg)
Louis Svećenski born 7 November
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- Masajiro Furuya, Banker and businessperson (d. 1938)
- Matthew Killilea, American lawyer and politician (d. 1902)
- Frederick Potbury, English cricketer (d. 1943)
- Louis Svećenski, Croatian American violinist (d. 1926)
- Herbert George Welch, American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (d. 1969)
- November 8
- Ed Boyce, American labor leader (d. 1941)
- Andrés Héctor Carvallo (d. 1934)
- Signe Hornborg, Architect (d. 1916)
- Napoléon-Pierre Tanguay, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
- November 9
- Alphonso Carinci, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1963)
- Gigo Gabashvili, Painter and educator from Georgia (country) (d. 1936)
- November 10
- Chester Hardy Aldrich, American politician (d. 1924)
- Hugh Bennett, English cricketer (d. 1943)
- John Bollons (d. 1929)
- Konstantin Bozveliev, Bulgarian politician (d. 1951)
- Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton, British politician (d. 1945)
- Abram Bowman Kolb, American lyricist (d. 1925)
- Joseph A. McQueen, Canadian politician (d. 1918)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt, German entomologist (d. 1936)
- William Peterfield Trent, professor of English literature at Columbia University (d. 1939)
- Adolf Wallenberg, German internist and neurologist (d. 1949)
- November 11
- Theodore DuBose Bratton, American bishop (d. 1944)
- Rudolf Koechlin, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1939)
- Emmanuel de Margerie, French geographer (d. 1953)
- William Mason, 1st Baron Blackford, British politician and public servant (d. 1947)
- November 12
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Frank_Burr_Mallory.jpg/110px-Frank_Burr_Mallory.jpg)
Frank Burr Mallory born 12 November
-
- Vasile Goldiș, Romanian politician (d. 1934)
- Frank Burr Mallory, American pathologist (d. 1941)
- Georg F.L. Sarauw, Swedish botanist and archaeologist (d. 1928)
- Theodor Ziehen, German neurologist (d. 1950)
- November 13
- Arcadio Maxilom, Filipino teacher and hero of the Philippine Revolution (d. 1924)
- Pete Meegan, Major League Baseball player (d. 1905)
- Podge Weihe, American baseball player (d. 1914)
- November 14
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Johann_Heinrich_von_Bernstorff_1908.jpg/110px-Johann_Heinrich_von_Bernstorff_1908.jpg)
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff born 14 November
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- Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German politician and the ambassador to the United States (d. 1939)
- František Dvořák, Czech painter (d. 1927)
- Charles Hall Grandgent, American academic (d. 1939)
- George Washington Vanderbilt II, art collector and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family (d. 1914)
- November 15
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Gerhart_Hauptmann_nobel.jpg/110px-Gerhart_Hauptmann_nobel.jpg)
Gerhart Hauptmann born 15 November
-
- Adolf Bartels, German writer (d. 1945)
- Maxwell Evarts (d. 1913)
- Leonard Benjamin Franklin, British politician (d. 1944)
- Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)
- Jim Long, American baseball player (d. 1932)
- Delbert K. Smith, American farmer and politician (d. 1905)
- William Codman Sturgis, American mycologist (d. 1942)
- November 16
- Edith Ogden Harrison, American writer (d. 1955)
- Gus C. Henderson, Influential African-American (d. 1915)
- David Rocyn-Jones, British rugby union official (d. 1953)
- November 17
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Charles_Hagberg_Wright.jpg/110px-Charles_Hagberg_Wright.jpg)
Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright born 17 November
-
- Aylmer Haldane, British Army general (d. 1950)
- Ernest Hunter, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (d. 1944)
- Ella E. McBride, American photographer (d. 1965)
- Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, Librarian (d. 1940)
- November 18
- Ernest Choquette, Canadian politician and author (d. 1941)
- John M. Moore, American rancher and statesman from Texas, served in the United States House of Representatives (d. 1940)
- Charlie Shaw, Footballer (d. 1931)
- James Edward Sullivan, American sports official of Irish descent (d. 1914)
- Alfred Edwin Winter, Australian politician who represented Wallaroo for the United Labor Party (d. 1939)
- George Wood, English county cricketer (d. 1948)
- November 19
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Billy_Sunday_1921.jpg/110px-Billy_Sunday_1921.jpg)
Billy Sunday born 19 November
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- Manuel Earnshaw, Filipino politician (d. 1936)
- Anna de Koven, American writer (d. 1953)
- Robert Parkyn, Canadian politician (d. 1939)
- George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, British Earl (d. 1947)
- Billy Sunday, American baseball player, evangelist and prohibitionist (d. 1935)
- November 20
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Dan_Casey2.jpg/110px-Dan_Casey2.jpg)
Dan Casey born 20 November
-
- Dan Casey, American baseball player (d. 1943)
- Walter Norris Congreve (d. 1927)
- Carl Godlewski, circus clown (d. 1949)
- Georges Palante, French sociologist (d. 1925)
- Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (d. 1939)
- November 21 – Galen L. Stone, American financier and philanthropist (d. 1926)
- November 22
- Edward Benjamin Cushing, engineer and academic administrator (d. 1924)
- Arthur Stewart Eve, British physicist (d. 1948)
- Consuelo Fould, French painter (d. 1927)
- Warwick Goble, British artist (d. 1943)
- November 23
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Theo_van_Rysselberghe_by_Theo_van_Rysselberghe.jpg/110px-Theo_van_Rysselberghe_by_Theo_van_Rysselberghe.jpg)
Théo van Rysselberghe born 23 November
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Portrait_of_Gilbert_Parker.jpg/110px-Portrait_of_Gilbert_Parker.jpg)
Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet born 23 November
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- Alexander P. Anderson, American botanist and breakfast cereal inventor (d. 1943)
- Pierre Augustin Dangeard, French botanist and mycologist (d. 1947)
- Ernest Guglielminetti, Swiss physician (d. 1943)
- Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet (d. 1932)
- Théo van Rysselberghe, Belgian neo-impressionist painter (d. 1926)
- William E. Tou Velle, American politician (d. 1951)
- Salvador Viniegra, Spanish painter (d. 1915)
- Alberto Williams, Argentine composer of classical music (d. 1952)
- November 24
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Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen born 24 November
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- Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen, Bavarian general (d. 1953)
- Charles Godfrey, English cricketer (d. 1941)
- Bernhard Stavenhagen, German pianist (d. 1914)
- Francis Seymour Stevenson, British politician (d. 1938)
- November 25
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/FHT-in-1894.jpg/110px-FHT-in-1894.jpg)
Frederick Howard Taylor born 25 November
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- Katharine Adams, Bookbinder (d. 1952)
- Gaston Frommel (d. 1906)
- Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
- Frederick Howard Taylor, Missionary in China and Author (d. 1946)
- November 26
- Edmund Wyly Grier, Canadian artist (d. 1957)
- Aurel Stein (d. 1943)
- November 27
- William Blackman, English cricketer (d. 1885)
- Franz Xaver Kugler, German chemist (d. 1929)
- November 28
- George Boomer, American journalist (d. 1915)
- Antoine Depage, Belgian physician (d. 1925)
- Henry McMahon (d. 1949)
- Albert Rigolot, French painter (d. 1932)
- Charles Augustus Strong, Philosopher, psychologist (d. 1940)
- James Toomey, Australian trade unionist (d. 1920)
- November 29
- Joe Elvin, British entertainer (d. 1935)
- Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German right-wing politician (d. 1934)
- Otis Turner, American director (d. 1918)
- November 30
- John Arthur Jackson, British politician (d. 1937)
- Karl Emil Ståhlberg, Finnihs film producer (d. 1919)
- Byrde M. Vaughan, American politician and lawyer (d. 1941)
December
- December 2
- Florence L. Barclay, English romance novelist and short story writer (d. 1921)
- Robert Luce, American politician (d. 1946)
- Charles Mallet, British politician (d. 1947)
- Louise Adeline Weitzel, American writer (d. 1934)
- December 3
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Colin Richard Keppel born 3 December
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- Charles Grafly, American sculptor and educator (d. 1929)
- Colin Richard Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1947)
- Jules Renkin, Belgian politician (d. 1934)
- John Salmond, New Zealand judge (d. 1924)
- December 4 – Frank P. Mahony, Australian artist (d. 1916)
- December 5
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Harry Fuller born 5 December
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- William Walker Atkinson, American spiritual writer (d. 1932)
- John Edmund Califano, American artist (d. 1946)
- A. Elmer Crowell, American artist (d. 1952)
- Federico Degetau, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1914)
- Nicolae Filipescu, Romanian politician (d. 1916)
- Harry Fuller, American baseball player (d. 1895)
- John Henry Leech, English entomologist (d. 1900)
- Francis Morris, Canadian politician (d. 1947)
- Dugald Stewart, Canadian politician (d. 1932)
- George B. Terrell, American politician (d. 1947)
- December 6 – Abel Henry Smith, British politician (d. 1930)
- December 7
- Paul Adam (d. 1920)
- Thorstein Diesen, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (d. 1925)
- Humphrey Jones, Welsh footballer (d. 1946)
- Henry Augustus Pilsbry, American zoologist (d. 1957)
- Edward Anthony Strauss, English corn (d. 1939)
- Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld, South African rugby union administrator (d. 1932)
- December 8
- Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
- Frederick John Fulton, Canadian politician (d. 1936)
- Charles Murphy (d. 1935)
- December 9
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Nelly Erichsen born 9 December
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- Andre W. Brewster, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)
- Ernest de Chamaillard, Painter (d. 1931)
- Joseph Clemens, American botanist (d. 1936)
- Nelly Erichsen, British artist (d. 1918)
- William Heasman, Cricketer (d. 1934)
- John Michael Higgins, Australian metallurgist (d. 1937)
- F. O. Oertel, archaeologist, civil engineer (d. 1942)
- December 10
- Bob Black, American baseball player (d. 1933)
- Georges Hulin de Loo, Belgian art historian specialising in Early Netherlandish art (d. 1945)
- Emily Malbone Morgan (d. 1937)
- Benjamin Charles Prowse, Canadian politician (d. 1930)
- Edmund Severn, American composer and violinist born in England (d. 1942)
- December 11
- John H. Arnold, American politician who served as 34th Lieutenant Governor/Ohio(1915–1917) (d. 1944)
- Denver S. Church, American politician (d. 1952)
- Carl Diener, Austrian paleontologist (d. 1928)
- Stepan Pasiuha, Ukrainian musician (d. 1933)
- Otto Valstad, Norwegian painter (d. 1950)
- December 12
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Cao Kun born 12 December
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- André Fauquet-Lemaître, Polo player (d. 1943)
- Vladimir Gurko, Russian politician (d. 1927)
- J. Bruce Ismay, English shipping magnate, White Star Line (d. 1937)
- Cao Kun (d. 1938)
- Adolfo Alejandro Nouel, Catholic bishop (d. 1937)
- Paul von Rohden, German historian (d. 1939)
- Gersz Salwe, Polish chess player (d. 1920)
- December 13
- William E. Glasscock, American politician, served as Governor of West Virginia as a Republican (d. 1925)
- Sophus Halle, Danish composer (d. 1924)
- Francis Newdegate (d. 1936)
- December 14
- Gunther von Etzel, German general (d. 1948)
- Bertha Hofer Hegner, Educator and promoter of the Kindergarten Movement (d. 1937)
- Henry Yule Oldham, British academic (d. 1951)
- Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth, British politician (d. 1951)
- December 15
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Nonpareil Dempsey born 15 December
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- Nonpareil Dempsey, Irish-born champion boxer (d. 1895)
- William Gordon, American politician (d. 1942)
- Adrien Loir, French biologist and bacteriologist (d. 1941)
- Adela Maddison, Composer (d. 1929)
- December 16
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/John_Fox%2C_Jr._-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_18318.jpg/110px-John_Fox%2C_Jr._-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_18318.jpg)
John Fox, Jr. born 16 December
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- James Brown (d. 1939)
- Eugène Demolder, Belgian writer (d. 1919)
- John Fox, Jr., American journalist (d. 1919)
- George Thurland Prior, British mineralogist (d. 1936)
- Cecil Purser, Australian doctor (d. 1953)
- December 17
- Eric Bodington, British Archdeacon (d. 1929)
- Urbain Gohier, Anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi writer (d. 1951)
- Charles A.E. Harriss, British-Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1929)
- Moriz Rosenthal, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
- December 18
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Alfred_Law.jpg/110px-Alfred_Law.jpg)
Alfred Law (cricketer) born 18 December
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- Alfred Law, English cricketer (d. 1919)
- Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham, British politician (d. 1933)
- John S. Snook, politician (d. 1952)
- Ulrich Wilcken, German historian (d. 1944)
- December 20
- James Leigh, English cricketer who played for Lancashire (d. 1925)
- Michael Strøm Lie, Norwegian diplomat (d. 1934)
- Washington Ellsworth Lindsey, American politician (d. 1926)
- December 21 – William Dalby, British mechanical engineer (d. 1936)
- December 22
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Connie Mack born 22 December
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Robert Hotung born 22 December
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- John T. Adams, Businessman (d. 1939)
- Vaughan Cornish, English geographer (d. 1948)
- Walter Samuel Goodland, American politician and the 31st Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1947)
- Robert Hotung (d. 1956)
- Connie Mack (d. 1956)
- Ivor Maxse, British Army general (d. 1958)
- J. E. Meyers, insurance salesman (d. 1944)
- Jean Hyacinthe Vincent, French physician (d. 1950)
- December 23
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/AshtonShallenberger.jpg/110px-AshtonShallenberger.jpg)
Ashton C. Shallenberger born 23 December
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- Frans Rapola, Finnish secondary school teacher and politician (d. 1910)
- Ashton C. Shallenberger, Nebraska Democratic politician and the 15th Governor of Nebraska (d. 1938)
- J. A. Spender, British journalist (d. 1942)
- John Edward Sutton, British politician (d. 1945)
- Amos Russel Wells, American writer (d. 1933)
- Hans Wessely, Austrian violinist (d. 1926)
- December 24
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Meliton_Balanchivadze%2C_composer_from_Georgia_%28Europe%29.jpg/110px-Meliton_Balanchivadze%2C_composer_from_Georgia_%28Europe%29.jpg)
Meliton Balanchivadze born 24 December
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- Meliton Balanchivadze, Georgian musician (d. 1937)
- Ferdinand Elbers, Belgian politician (d. 1943)
- Chester A. Fowler, American judge (d. 1948)
- Wilhelm Mönkemeyer, German bryologist (d. 1938)
- December 25
- Raoul de Boigne, Sport shooter (d. 1949)
- Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, British historian and writer (d. 1926)
- George William Kinman, Schoolteacher (d. 1927)
- Lee Meriwether, American writer and government official (d. 1966)
- Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician (d. 1937)
- Willard Otis Wylie, American philatelist (d. 1944)
- December 26
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Alexander Amfiteatrov born 26 December
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- Alexander Amfiteatrov (d. 1938)
- Arnold Berliner, German physicist (d. 1942)
- Albert Moore, United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1916)
- Slavko Wolf, Croatian lawyer, chess player and writer (d. 1936)
- December 27
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Elie-Jean-Joseph_Morel.jpg/110px-Elie-Jean-Joseph_Morel.jpg)
Elie-Jean-Joseph Morel born 27 December
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- William Cropper, English cricketer (d. 1889)
- Ducky Hemp, American baseball player (d. 1923)
- Alice De Wolf Kellogg, American artist (d. 1900)
- Elie-Jean-Joseph Morel, French archbishop (d. 1948)
- Edward Robinson, English county cricketer (d. 1942)
- Anton van Wouw, Dutch-born sculptor regarded as the father of South African sculpture (d. 1945)
- December 28
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20160315050622im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/William_chase_temple.jpg/110px-William_chase_temple.jpg)
William Chase Temple born 28 December
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- Edmond S. Meany, American politician and academic (d. 1935)
- Morris Rosenfeld, Yiddish poet (d. 1923)
- William Chase Temple, American sports executive (d. 1917)
- Rasmus Tveteraas, Norwegian schoolteacher (d. 1938)
- December 29
- Nora Drummond, British artist (d. 1949)
- Tahvo Kruus, Finnish farmer (d. 1918)
- Leonard Rowland, British politician (d. 1939)
- Charles Samuel, engraver, medalist, sculptor (d. 1938)
- Peter Moore Speer, Republican member of the U (d. 1933)
- December 30 – Thomas Bulch, Australian musician and composer (d. 1930)
- December 31 – Albert Sleeper, American politician and served as the 29th Governor of Michigan (d. 1934)
Deaths
January–June
- January 10 – Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (b. 1814)
- January 18 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
- February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1774)
- February 7 – Prosper Ménière, French scientist (b. 1799)
- February 20
- Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (b. 1788)
- William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, third son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln (b. 1850)
- February 21 – Justinus Kerner, German physician (b. 1786)
- February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist and poet (b. 1789)
- March 22 – Manuel Robles Pezuela, former President of Mexico (executed) (b. 1817)
- April 6 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
- April 10 – W. H. L. Wallace, American Civil War general (b. 1821)
- April 19 – Louis P. Harvey, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1820)
- May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
- May 16 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English theorist of colonization. (b. 1796)
- May 21 – John Drew Sr., Irish American actor and manager (b. 1827)
- June 17 – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, English Viceroy of India (b. 1812)
July–December
- July 24 – Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
- August 10 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
- August 18 – Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (b. 1776)
- August 20 – Javiera Carrera, Chilean independence fighter (b. 1771)
- September 6 – John Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780)
- September 10 – Carlos Antonio López, president of Paraguay (b. 1792)
- September 14 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant murdered in Japan (b. 1834)
- October 15 – Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug, German statesman (b. 1794)
- November 13 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787)
- December 13 – Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American Confederate general killed during the battle of Fredericksburg (b. 1823)
- December 18 – Barbara Fritchie, American Civil War patriot (b. 1766)
References
- ^ "The Spirit of Pestilence". University of Victoria. 2002-03-30. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
- ^ Halen, Widar (1990). Christopher Dresser. Phaidon. p. 34. ISBN 0-7148-2952-8.
- ^ "An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes 12 Stat. 489, July 1, 1862