Editing 1838 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–March ===
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[[File:Ernest Solvay 1900s.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Ernest Solvay]]]]
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* [[January 4]] – [[General Tom Thumb]], American circus performer, entertainer (d. [[1883]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Anton Berindei]], Wallachian-born Romanian general and politician (d. [[1899]])
** [[Max Bruch]], German composer (d. [[1920]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Franz Brentano]], German philosopher, psychologist (d. [[1917]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Edward W. Morley]], American chemist noted for working on the [[Michelson–Morley experiment]] (d. [[1923]])
* [[February 2]] – [[John Joseph Jolly Kyle]], Scots-born Argentine chemist (d. [[1922]])<ref>Enrique Herrero Ducloux, "Juan J. J. Kyle (1838-1922)", Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, t. XCIII, 170, Buenos Aires, 1922.  [https://archive.org/stream/analesdelasocied94soci#page/n179/mode/1up]</ref>
* [[February 6]] – [[Henry Irving|Sir Henry Irving]], English actor (d. [[1905]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)|Sir Evelyn Wood]], British field marshal, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1919]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Julius Dresser]], American writer (d. [[1893]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Annetta Seabury Dresser]], American writer (d. [[1893]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Henry Brooks Adams]], American historian (d. [[1918]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Ernst Mach]], Austrian physicist, philosopher (d. [[1916]])
* [[March 3]] – [[George William Hill]], American astronomer (d. [[1914]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Ōkuma Shigenobu]], Japanese politician (d. [[1922]])
* [[March 12]] – [[William Henry Perkin|Sir William Perkin]], English chemist (d. [[1907]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Alice Cunningham Fletcher]], American [[ethnologist]], [[anthropologist]], and [[social scientist]] (d. [[1923]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 2]] – [[Léon Gambetta]], 37th Prime Minister of France (d. [[1882]])
* [[April 3]] – [[John Willis Menard]], African-American politician (d. [[1893]])
* [[April 12]] – [[John Shaw Billings]], American military and medical leader (d. [[1913]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Ernest Solvay]], Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist (d. [[1922]])
** [[Martha McClellan Brown]], [[American temperance movement]] leader (d. [[1916]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]], French chemist (d. [[1912]])
* [[April 21]] – [[John Muir]], American ecologist (d. [[1914]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Tobias Asser]], Dutch jurist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1913]])
* [[May 10]] – [[John Wilkes Booth]], American actor, assassin of [[Abraham Lincoln]] (d. [[1865]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Isabelle Bogelot]], French philanthropist (d. [[1923]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Jules Méline]], French statesman (d. [[1925]])
* [[July]] ''full date unknown'' – [[Bass Reeves]], one of the first black [[United States Marshals Service|Deputy U.S. Marshals]] west of the [[Mississippi River]] (d. [[1910]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Yamagata Aritomo]], Japanese field marshal, Prime Minister (d. [[1922]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Mary Cole Walling]], American patriot, lecturer (d. [[1925]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Gustav von Schmoller]], German economist (d. [[1917]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]], Indian author (d. [[1894]])

=== July–September ===
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[[File:Georges bizet.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georges Bizet]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Marie-Louise Jaÿ]], French businesswoman (d. [[1925]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Vatroslav Jagić]], Croatian scholar (d. [[1923]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Felice Napoleone Canevaro]], Italian admiral (d. [[1926]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Ferdinand von Zeppelin]], German military officer, founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. [[1917]])
* [[July 11]] – [[John Wanamaker]], American merchant and religious, civic and political figure (d. [[1922]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet]], British statesman, author (d. [[1928]])
* [[September 2]]
** [[Bhaktivinoda Thakur]], Indian guru, philosopher (d. [[1914]])
** [[Liliuokalani]], last Queen of Hawaii (d. [[1917]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Valeriano Weyler]], Spanish general (d. [[1930]])
* [[September 21]]
** [[Constantin Budișteanu]] (birth also reported as [[November 4]]), Wallachian-born Romanian soldier and politician (d. [[1911]])
** [[Victoria Woodhull]], American woman's suffrage leader; first woman to run for U.S. President (d. [[1927]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Lawrence Sullivan Ross]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] brigadier general, Texas governor and president of [[Texas A&M University]] (d. [[1898]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Sai Baba of Shirdi|Sai Baba]],  Indian spiritual master and National saint (d. [[1918]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Henry Hobson Richardson]], American architect (d. [[1886]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait]], American physician (d. [[1904]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]] – [[Giuseppe Cesare Abba]], Italian patriot, writer (d. [[1910]])
* [[October 8]] – [[John Hay]], diplomat, private secretary to [[Abraham Lincoln]], 37th [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. 1905)
* [[October 25]] – [[Georges Bizet]], [[France|French]] composer (d. [[1875]])
* [[October 31]] – King [[Luís I of Portugal]] (d. [[1889]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama]] (d. [[1856]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Constantin Budișteanu]] (birth also reported as [[September 21]]), Wallachian-born Romanian soldier and politician (d. [[1911]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]], French writer (d. [[1889]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Rufus W. Peckham]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1909]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Joseph F. Smith]], 6th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1918]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet]], British naval officer (d. [[1917]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm]], pioneer Scandinavian actor (d. [[1907]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Stephanos Skouloudis]], 34th Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1928]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Giovanni Losi]], Italian Combonian missionary (d. [[1882]])
* [[December 3]] –  [[Cleveland Abbe]], American meteorologist (d. [[1916]])
* [[December 3]] –  [[Octavia Hill]], British social reformer (d. [[1912]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Darinka Petrovic]], Princess consort of Montenegro (d. [[1892]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]], English theologian, author (d. [[1926]])
* [[December 30]] – [[Émile Loubet]], 8th [[President of France]] (d. [[1929]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī]], Islamic teacher, writer (d. [[1897]])
*[[Bass Reeves]], American lawman and first black deputy U.S. marshall (d. [[1910]])