Editing 1839 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Paul cezanne 1861.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Paul Cézanne]] {{dubious|date=July 2021}}]]
[[File:Marianne Hainisch.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Marianne Hainisch]]]]
[[File:Josiah Willard Gibbs -from MMS-.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]]]
[[File:FredericTilton2.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Frederic W. Tilton]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Gustave Trouvé]], French electrical engineer, inventor (d. [[1902]])
* [[January 8]] – [[William A. Clark]], American politician, entrepreneur (d. [[1925]])
* [[January 9]] – [[John Knowles Paine]], American composer (d. [[1906]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Paul Cézanne]], French painter (d. [[1906]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul Cézanne {{!}} French artist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Cezanne |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=14 May 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – [[Rachel Lloyd (chemist)|Rachel Lloyd]], American chemist (d. [[1900]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Caroline Testman]], Danish women's rights activist  (d. [[1919]])
* [[February 11]]
** [[Josiah Willard Gibbs]], American physicist, chemist (d. [[1903]])
** [[Almon Brown Strowger]], American telecommunications engineer (d. [[1902]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Rayko Zhinzifov]], Bulgarian poet and translator (d. [[1877]])<ref>{{cite book |editor=Igor I. Kaliganov |title=Materials for the virtual Museum of Slavic Cultures. Issue II |date=2020 |publisher=Institute of Slavic Studies of RAS |location=Moscow |isbn=978-5-7576-0440-4 |page=277 |url=https://inslav.ru/publication/materials-virtual-museum-slavic-cultures-issue-ii-m-2020}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] – [[Pascual Cervera y Topete]], Spanish admiral (d. [[1909]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Francis Pharcellus Church]], American editor, publisher (d. [[1906]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Jamsetji Tata]], Indian Parsi businessman (d. [[1904]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Josephine Cochrane]], American inventor of the first commercially successful dishwasher (d. [[1913]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Daniel Ridgway Knight]], American artist (d. [[1924]])
* [[March 16]]
** [[Sully Prudhomme]], French poet, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. [[1907]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1901/prudhomme/biographical/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=4 September 2021}}</ref>
** [[John Butler Yeats]], Irish artist (d. [[1922]])<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Byrne |editor1-first=James Patrick |editor2-last=Coleman |editor2-first=Philip |editor3-last=King |editor3-first=Jason Francis |title=Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia |date=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-614-5 |page=923 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agfvVQnBu9MC&pg=PA923}}</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Modest Mussorgsky]], Russian composer (d. [[1881]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Julius von Hann]], Austrian meteorologist (''The father of modern meteorology'') (d. [[1921]])
* [[March 25]]
** [[Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist)|Carlo Pellegrini]], Italian caricaturist (d. [[1889]])
** [[Marianne Hainisch]], founder, leader of the Austrian women's movement (d. [[1936]])
* [[March 27]] – [[John Ballance]], 14th [[Premier of New Zealand]] (d. [[1893]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Karl, Freiherr von Prel]], German philosopher (d. [[1899]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Belle L. Pettigrew]], American teacher, missionary (d. [[1912]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Nikolay Przhevalsky]], Russian explorer (d. [[1888]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì]], 12th Prime Minister of Italy (d. [[1908]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Tom Allen (boxer)|Tom Allen]], English boxer (d. [[1903]])
* [[April 30]]
** [[Floriano Peixoto]], 2nd President of Brazil (d. [[1895]])
** [[Tsukioka Yoshitoshi|Yoshitoshi]], Japanese artist (d. [[1892]])
* [[May 21]]  – [[Mary of the Passion]], French [[Roman Catholic]] religious sister, missionary, and blessed (d. [[1904]])
* [[June 1]]  – [[Abdyl Frashëri]], Albanian politician (d.[[1892]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg]], Prime Minister of Denmark (d. [[1912]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Arthur Tooth]], [[Anglican]] [[clergyman]] prosecuted for [[Ritualism in the Church of England|Ritualist]] practices in the [[1870s]] (d. [[1931]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Machado de Assis]], Brazilian author (d. [[1908]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Portrait of J. D. Rockefeller.jpg|thumb|110px|[[John D. Rockefeller]]]]
[[File:Alfred_Sisley_photo_full.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alfred Sisley]]]]
* [[July]] – [[Baba Jaimal Singh]], Founder of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (d. [[1903]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Édouard Pottier]], French admiral (d. [[1903]])
* [[July 8]] – [[John D. Rockefeller]], American industrialist, philanthropist (d. [[1937]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Ephraim Shay]], American inventor of the [[Shay locomotive]] (d. [[1916]])
* [[July 18]] – [[James Surtees Phillpotts]], English author (d. [[1930]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Jacob Hägg]], Swedish admiral and painter (d. [[1931]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Isabelle Gatti de Gamond]], Italo-Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician (d. [[1905]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Ignacio Andrade]], 37th President of Venezuela (d. [[1925]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Walter Pater]], English essayist, critic (d. [[1894]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Nelson A. Miles]], American general (d. [[1925]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Antonín Petrof]], Czech piano maker (d. [[1915]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Henry George]], American writer, politician, and political economist (d. [[1897]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Patricio Montojo y Pasarón]], Spanish admiral (d. [[1917]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Gregorio Luperón]], Dominican soldier, activist and general (d. [[1897]]) 
* [[September 10]] – [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (d. [[1914]])
* [[September 12]] –  [[Mary H. Graves]], American minister, literary editor, writer (d. [[1908]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Oscar de Négrier]], French general (d. [[1913]])
* [[October 9]]
** [[Georges Leclanché]], French electrical engineer, inventor (d. [[1882]])
** [[Winfield Scott Schley]], American admiral (d. [[1911]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Jeanne Merkus]], Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier, and political activist (d. [[1897]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Alfred Sisley]], French Impressionist landscape painter (d. [[1899]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Pál Luthár]], Slovene writer in Hungary (d. [[1919]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Frank Furness]], American architect, soldier (d. [[1912]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Emil Škoda]], Czech engineer, industrialist (d. [[1900]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Christian Wilberg]], German painter (d. [[1882]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Catherine Amanda Coburn]], American journalist, newspaper editor (d. [[1913]])
* [[December 5]] – [[George Armstrong Custer]], American cavalry officer (d. [[1876]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Redvers Buller|Sir Redvers Buller]], British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1908]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Sherman Conant]], American soldier and politician (d. [[1890]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Avis Crocombe]], English cook at [[Audley End House]]