Births
editJanuary
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- February 1
- Geirulf Bugge, Norwegian judge (d. 1940)
- Marian Massonius, Polish philosopher (d. 1945)
- Robert Richardson, British politician (d. 1943)
- February 2
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- June 1 – Charles Jesson, British politician (d. 1926)
- June 2
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (d. 1915)
- Ralph W. Thomas, American politician (d. 1920)
- June 12
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Eberhard Fraas, geologist (d. 1915)
- John Hay (d. 1925)
- Frank Liddell, Australian politician (d. 1939)
- Harry Taylor, U (d. 1930)
- June 27
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- September 1
- Adolphe Appia (d. 1928)
- Radó von Kövesligethy, Hungarian physicist (d. 1934)
- Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse, Canadian circus owner (d. 1931)
- September 2
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (d. 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
edit- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)