Editing 1828 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Jules Verne by Étienne Carjat.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Jules Verne]]]]
[[File:Henry Dunant-young.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean Henri Dunant]]]]
* [[January 17]] – [[Alexandru Cernat]], Moldavian-born Romanian general and politician (d. 1893)
* [[January 22]] – [[Dora d'Istria]], Romanian-Albanian writer (d. 1888)
* [[January 23]] – [[Saigō Takamori]], Japanese ''[[samurai]]'' (d. 1877)
* [[February 8]] – [[Jules Verne]], French science fiction author (d. 1905)
* [[March 13]] – [[Sébastien Lespès]], French admiral (d. 1897)
* [[March 17]] – [[Patrick Cleburne]], Irish soldier, Confederate general (d. 1864)
* [[March 18]] – [[Randal Cremer|Sir Randal Cremer]], English politician, pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. 1908)
* [[March 20]] – [[Henrik Ibsen]], Norwegian playwright (d. 1906)
* [[March 24]] – [[Horace Gray]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. 1902)
* [[March 25]] – [[George Montgomery White]], American politician (d. 1860)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wilmington-journal-george-m-white-death/92171489|title=George Montgomery White's death notice|newspaper=The Wilmington Journal|publication-place=[[Wilmington, North Carolina]]|date=July 19, 1860}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] – [[Johanna Mestorf]], German [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] [[archaeologist]] (d. 1909)
* [[April 20]] – [[Josephine Butler]], British social reformer (d. 1906)
* [[April 26]] – [[Martha Finley]], American teacher, author (d. 1909)
* [[April 29]] – [[Étienne Stéphane Tarnier]], French obstetrician, inventor (d. 1897)
* [[May 8]]
** [[Henry Dunant]], Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. 1910)
** [[Charbel Makhluf]], Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (d. 1898)
* [[May 12]] – [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], English poet, painter (d. 1882)
* [[June 21]] – [[Ferdinand André Fouqué]], French geologist, petrologist (d. 1904)
* [[June 28]] – [[Alexandre Franquet]], French admiral (d. 1907)

=== July–December ===
[[File:L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Leo Tolstoy]]]]
* [[July 9]] – [[Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano]], Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
* [[July 23]] – [[Jonathan Hutchinson|Sir Jonathan Hutchinson]], English physician (d. 1913)
* [[July 28]] – [[Iosif Gurko]], Russian field marshal (d. 1901)
* [[July 31]] – [[Ignacio de Veintemilla]], 11th President of Ecuador (d. 1908)
* [[August 6]] – [[Andrew Taylor Still]], American father of osteopathy (d. 1917)
* [[August 17]] – [[Maria Deraismes]], French feminist (d. 1894)
* [[August 28]] – [[William A. Hammond]], American military physician, neurologist and 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) (d. 1900)
* [[September 1]] – [[Anthony Hoskins]], British admiral (d. 1901)
* [[September 8]]
** [[Joshua Chamberlain]], [[Governor of Maine]], President of [[Bowdoin College]] in [[Brunswick, Maine]] (d. 1914)
** [[Clarence Cook]], American art critic, writer (d. 1900)
* [[September 9]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]])/[[August 28]] ([[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]) – [[Leo Tolstoy]], Russian writer (d. 1910)
* [[October 2]] – [[Charles Floquet]], Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)
* [[October 20]] – [[Horatio Spafford]], American author of the hymn ''It Is Well with My Soul'' (d. 1888)
* [[October 31]] – [[Joseph Swan|Sir Joseph Swan]], English physicist, chemist (d. 1914)
* [[November 17]] – [[Milton Wright (bishop)|Milton Wright]], American bishop, father of aviation pioneers the [[Wright brothers]] (d. 1917)
* [[November 19]] – [[Rani Lakshmibai]], queen of the [[Maratha]]-ruled princely Indian state of [[Jhansi]] (d. 1858)
* [[November 24]] – [[Henry Lomb]], German-American optician, co-founder of [[Bausch & Lomb]] (d. 1908)
* [[November 26]] – [[René Goblet]], Prime Minister of France (d. 1905)
* [[December 8]] – [[Clinton B. Fisk]], [[American temperance movement]] leader (d. 1890)

=== Date unknown ===
* [[William Robert Woodman]], British co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (d. 1891)  
* [[Ely S. Parker]], Seneca lieutenant colonel and first Native [[Commissioner of Indian Affairs]]