Editing 1871 (section)

=== July–August ===
[[File:Marcel Proust vers 1895.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Marcel Proust]]]]
[[File:Orville Wright-1928.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Orville Wright]]]]
[[File:Ernest Rutherford LOC.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Ernest Rutherford]]]]
[[File:Pietro Badoglio 3.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Pietro Badoglio]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Wilhelm von Mirbach]], German diplomat (d. [[1918]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Claus Schilling]], German medical researcher and war criminal (d. [[1946]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Marcel Proust]], French writer (d. [[1922]])
* [[July 13]] – [[John Norton-Griffiths]], British engineer, army officer, and politician (d. [[1930]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Lyonel Feininger]], German painter (d. [[1956]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Sada Yacco]], Japanese stage actress (d. [[1946]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Aarnoud van Heemstra]], Dutch [[nobleman]], [[jurist]] and politician (d. [[1951]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Richard Turner (Canadian Army officer)|Richard Turner]], Canadian soldier (d. [[1961]])
* [[August 1]] – [[John Lester]], American [[cricket]]er (d. [[1969]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Oldest people|Augusta Holtz]], Polish-American supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1871 (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Lillian Smith (trick shooter)|Lillian Smith]], American [[Exhibition shooting|trick shooter]] and [[trick rider]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[August 12]] 
** [[Gustavs Zemgals]], 2nd President of Latvia (d. [[1939]])
** [[Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada]], Cuban writer, politician, diplomat, and sixth [[President of Cuba]] (d. [[1939]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Karl Liebknecht]], German politician (d. [[1919]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Guangxu Emperor]] of China (d. [[1908]])
* [[August 19]]
** [[Orville Wright]], American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Wilbur (d. [[1948]])
** [[Joseph E. Widener]], American art collector (d. [[1943]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Sofia Panina]], Russian politician (d. [[1956]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Nils Edén]], 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[1945]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Edward Lavin Girroir]], Canadian politician (d. [[1932]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Theodore Dreiser]], American writer (d. [[1945]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Albert François Lebrun]], French politician (d. [[1950]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Ernest Rutherford]], New Zealand physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[August 31]] 
** [[Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg|Ernst II]], last reigning duke of [[Saxe-Altenburg]] and German general in [[World War I]] (d. [[1955]])
** [[Syed Hasan Imam]], [[Indian people|Indian]] [[politician]] and served as President of the [[Indian National Congress]] (d. [[1933]])