User:Hebrides/Sandbox6

January

 * January 1
 * 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

 * 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

 * March 1
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * July 1
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
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 * 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
 * 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)