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== Births == === January–March === [[File:Hilbert.jpg|thumb|110px|[[David Hilbert]]]] [[File:Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Edith Wharton]]]] * [[January 9]] – [[Carrie Clark Ward]], American silent film actress (d. [[1926]]) *[[January 14]] – [[Carrie Derick]], Canadian botanist and geneticist (d. [[1941]]) * [[January 15]] – [[Loie Fuller]], American dancer (d. [[1928]]) * [[January 23]] – [[David Hilbert]], German mathematician (d. [[1943]]) * [[January 24]] – [[Edith Wharton]], American fiction writer (d. [[1937]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Frederick Delius]], English composer (d. [[1934]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Walter Damrosch]], German-born American orchestral conductor (d. [[1950]]) * [[February 3]] – [[James Clark McReynolds]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1946]]) * [[February 4]] ** [[Hjalmar Hammarskjöld]], 13th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[1953]]) ** [[George Ernest Morrison]], Australian adventurer, journalist (d. [[1920]]) * [[February 7]] – [[Bernard Maybeck]], American Arts and Crafts architect (d. [[1957]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Ferdinand Ferber]], French Army captain, aviation pioneer (d. [[1909]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Edward German]], English composer (d. [[1936]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Robert Emden]], Swiss astrophysicist, meteorologist (d. [[1940]]) * [[March 8]] – [[George Frederick Phillips]], Canadian-born American military hero (d. [[1904]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Jane Delano]], American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. [[1919]]) * [[March 14]] – [[Vilhelm Bjerknes]], Norwegian physicist, meteorologist (d. [[1951]]) * [[March 25]] – [[George Sutherland]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1942]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Aristide Briand]], French politician, winner of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1932]]) * [[March 29]] – [[Adolfo Müller-Ury]], Swiss-born American painter (d. 1947) === April–June === * [[April 2]] – [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], American president of [[Columbia University]], winner of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1947]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Georges Darien]], French writer (d. [[1921]]) * [[April 11]] ** [[Charles Evans Hughes]], American jurist, politician, [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[1948]]) ** [[Lurana W. Sheldon]], American author and editor (d. [[1945]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Edmund C. Tarbell]], American Impressionist painter (d. [[1938]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Rudolph Schildkraut]], Ottoman-born Austrian actor (d. [[1930]]) * [[May 15]] – [[Arthur Schnitzler]], Austrian dramatist, narrator (d. [[1931]]) * [[May 27]] – [[John Kendrick Bangs]], American author, satirist (d. [[1922]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Allvar Gullstrand]], Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1930]]) * [[June 7]] – [[Philipp Lenard]], Hungarian–German physicist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[1947]]) * [[June 10]] – [[John de Robeck]], British admiral (d. [[1928]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Damrong Rajanubhab]], Thai prince, historian (d. [[1943]]) * [[June 27]] – [[May Irwin]], Canadian actress, singer (d. [[1938]]) === July–September === [[File:Klimt.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gustav Klimt]]]] [[File:Claude Debussy by Atelier Nadar.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Claude Debussy]]]] [[File:Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ida B. Wells]]]] [[File:Andrewfisher2.JPG|thumb|110px|right|[[Andrew Fisher]]]] [[File:Billy Hughes 1919.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Billy Hughes]]]] * [[July 2]] ** [[William Henry Bragg]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1942]]) ** [[Christopher Cradock]], British admiral (d. [[1914]]) * [[July 8]] – [[Josephine White Bates]], Canadian-born American author (d. [[1934]]) * [[July 14]] **[[Florence Bascom]], American geologist and educator (d. [[1945]]) **[[Gustav Klimt]], Austrian artist (d. [[1918]]) * [[July 15]] – [[Ernest Troubridge]], British admiral (d. [[1926]]) * [[July 16]] – [[Ida B. Wells]], American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. [[1931]]) * [[July 24]] – [[James Percy FitzPatrick|Percy FitzPatrick]], South African author, politician and mining financier (d. [[1931]]) * [[August 5]] – [[Joseph Merrick]] (the ''Elephant Man''), English sufferer from deformities (d. [[1890]]) * [[August 16]] – [[Amos Alonzo Stagg]], American football player, coach (d. [[1965]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Emilio Salgari]], Italian writer (d. [[1911]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (d. [[1918]]) *[[August 24]] – [[Zonia Baber]], American geographer and geologist (d. [[1956]]) * [[August 26]] – [[Herbert Booth]], English-born Salvationist, third son of [[William Booth|William]] and [[Catherine Booth]] (d. [[1926]]) * [[August 29]] ** [[Andrew Fisher]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1928]]) ** [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] laureate (d. [[1949]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Edgar Speyer]], American-born international financier and philanthropist (d. [[1932]]) * [[September 11]] ** [[Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy]], British general, 12th [[Governor General of Canada]] (d. [[1935]]) ** [[Hawley Harvey Crippen]], American-born medical practitioner, uxoricide (hanged [[1910]]) ** [[O. Henry]], born William Sydney Porter, American short-story writer (d. [[1910]]) * [[September 12]] – [[Carl Eytel]], German-American artist working in [[Palm Springs, California]] (d. [[1925 in art|1925]]) * [[September 19]] – [[Arvid Lindman]], Swedish admiral, industrialist, and politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] (d. [[1936]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Anastasios Charalambis]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1949]]) * [[September 23]] – [[Denis Auguste Duchêne]], French general (d. [[1950]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Billy Hughes]], 7th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1952]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Louis Botha]], Boer general, first [[Prime Minister of South Africa]] (d. [[1919]]) === October–December === [[File:Gerhart Hauptmann nobel.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Gerhart Hauptmann]]]] * [[October 3]] – [[Johnny Briggs (cricketer)|Johnny Briggs]], English cricketer (d. [[1902]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Theodor Boveri]], German biologist (d. [[1915]]) * [[October 13]] – [[Mary Kingsley]], English explorer (d. [[1900]]) * [[October 18]] – [[Mehmet Esat Bülkat]], Ottoman general (d. [[1952]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Auguste Lumière]], French inventor (d. [[1954]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Hilma af Klint]], Swedish abstract painter (d. [[1944]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Hugh Evan-Thomas]], British admiral (d. [[1928]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Nicholas Timothy Clerk]], Gold Coast theologian, missionary and Presbyterian minister (d. [[1961]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Annie Laurie Wilson James]], American journalist focused on horses (unknown year of death) * [[November 14]] – [[George Washington Vanderbilt II]], American businessman (d. [[1914]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Gerhart Hauptmann]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1946]]) * [[November 16]] – [[Charles Turner (Australian cricketer)|Charles Turner]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1944]]) * [[November 19]] – [[Billy Sunday]], American baseball player, evangelist and prohibitionist (d. [[1935]]) * [[November 23]] – [[Ernest Guglielminetti]], Swiss physician (d. [[1943]]) * [[November 24]] – [[Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen]], Bavarian general (d. [[1953]]) * [[December 5]] ** [[William Walker Atkinson]], American spiritual writer (d. [[1932]]) ** [[John Henry Leech]], English entomologist (d. [[1900]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Georges Feydeau]], French playwright (d. [[1921]]) * [[December 12]] – [[J. Bruce Ismay]], English shipping magnate, [[White Star Line]] (d. [[1937]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Adrien Loir]], French biologist, bacteriologist (d. [[1941]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Wilhelm Weinberg]], German physician (d. [[1937]]) ===Date unknown=== * [[Al Herpin]] (''The Man Who Never Slept''), notable French-born American insomniac (d. [[1947]]) * [[Jessie King (writer)|Jessie King]], Scottish author (unknown year of death) *[[Antoinette Kinney]], American state senator (d. 1945) * [[Sufi Azizur Rahman]], Bengali Muslim theologian and teacher (d. [[1922]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mashayekh-e-Chatgam|volume=1|last=Ahmadullah|first=Mufti|year=2016|publisher=Ahmad Publishers|location=Dhaka |pages=137–139|ISBN=978-984-92106-4-1|edition=3}}</ref>
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