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=== January–June ===
[[File:King_Oscar_II_of_Sweden_in_uniform.png|thumb|110px|King [[Oscar II of Sweden]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Tommaso Salvini]], Italian actor (d. 1915)
* [[January 3]] – [[Konrad Duden]], German philologist (d. 1911)
* [[January 10]] – [[Epameinondas Deligeorgis]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1879)
* [[January 17]] – [[Catherine Booth]], English ''Mother'' of [[The Salvation Army]] (d. 1890)
* [[January 21]] – King [[Oscar II of Sweden]] and Norway (d. 1907)
* [[January 27]] – [[Isaac Roberts]], Welsh astronomer (d. 1904)
* [[February 2]]
** [[Alfred Brehm]], German zoologist (d. 1884)
** [[William Stanley (inventor)|William Stanley]], British inventor, engineer (d. 1909)
* [[February 22]] – [[Princess Sumiko]], Japanese princess (d. 1881)
* [[February 26]] – [[Levi Strauss]], American clothing designer (d. 1902)
* [[March 2]] – [[Carl Schurz]], German revolutionary, American statesman (d. 1906)
* [[March 14]] – [[Pierre-Hector Coullié]], Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon (d. 1912)
* [[March 16]] – [[George M. Robeson]], American politician (d. 1897)
* [[March 19]] – [[Carl Frederik Tietgen]], Danish financier, industrialist (d. 1901)
* [[April 6]] – [[Anna Haslam]], Irish women's rights activist, suffragist (d. 1922)
* [[April 10]] – [[William Booth]], British founder of [[The Salvation Army]] (d. 1912)
* [[May 8]] – [[Louis Moreau Gottschalk]], American composer, pianist (d. 1869)
* [[June 4]] – [[Allan Octavian Hume]], British civil servant (d. 1912)
* [[June 5]] – [[George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen]], Scottish-Canadian businessman,  philanthropist (d. 1921)
* [[June 6]] – [[Shusaku Honinbo]], Japanese ''Go'' player (d. 1862)
* [[June 8]] – [[John Everett Millais|Sir John Everett Millais]], British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1896)
* [[June 14]] – [[Bernard Petitjean]], French Catholic missionary to Japan (d. 1884)
* [[June 16]] – [[Geronimo]], indigenous American (Apache) leader (d. 1909)