Editing 1847 (section)

== Births ==

=== January ===
* [[January 5]] – [[Oku Yasukata]], Japanese field marshal, leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army (d. [[1930]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Caspar F. Goodrich]], American admiral (d. [[1925]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Radomir Putnik]], Serbian field marshal (d. [[1917]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Dorus Rijkers]], Dutch naval hero (d. [[1928]])

=== February ===
* [[February 3]] – [[Warington Baden-Powell]], British admiralty lawyer (d. [[1921]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Remus von Woyrsch]], German field marshal (d. [[1920]])
* [[February 5]] – [[João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal]], Portuguese politician and antiquarian (d. [[1920]])
* [[February 8]] – [[Hugh Price Hughes]], Methodist social reformer, first Superintendent of the [[West London Mission]] (d. [[1902]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Thomas Alva Edison]], American inventor (d. [[1931]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet|Sir Robert McAlpine]], Scottish builder (d. [[1930]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Robert Fuchs (composer)|Robert Fuchs]], Austrian composer (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Philipp Scharwenka]], Polish-German composer (d. [[1917]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Otto Blehr]], Norwegian attorney, Liberal Party politician, 7th [[Prime Minister of Norway]] (d. [[1927]])

=== March ===
* [[March 1]] – [[Thomas Brock|Sir Thomas Brock]], English sculptor (d. [[1922]])
* [[March 2]]
** [[Isaac Barr]], Anglican clergyman, promoter of British colonial settlement schemes (d. [[1937]])
** [[Cayetano Arellano]], first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines under the American Civil Government (d. [[1920]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Alexander Graham Bell]], Scottish-born Canadian inventor (d. [[1922]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Carl Josef Bayer]], Austrian chemist (d. [[1904]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Castro Alves]], Brazilian poet (d. [[1871]])
* [[March 18]] – [[William O'Connell Bradley]], American politician from Kentucky (d. [[1914]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Edmund Gurney]], British psychologist (d. [[1888]])
* [[March 27]]
** [[Otto Wallach]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1931]])
** [[Garret Barry (piper)|Garret Barry]], Irish musician (d. [[1899]])

=== April ===
* [[April 2]] – [[Charles Frederic Moberly Bell]], British journalist, editor (d. [[1911]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Joseph Pulitzer]], Hungarian-born journalist, newspaper publisher (d. [[1911]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter]], Polish Hasidic rabbi (d. [[1905]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Emma Irene Åström]], Finnish teacher, Finland's first female university graduate (d. [[1934]])

=== May ===
* [[May 7]] – [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1929]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Frederick William Borden|Sir Frederick William Borden]], Canadian politician (d. [[1917]])

=== June ===
* [[June 8]]
** [[Oleksander Barvinsky]], Ukrainian politician (d. [[1926]])
** [[Ida Saxton McKinley]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1907]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Gina Krog]], Norwegian suffragist (d. [[1916]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Millicent Fawcett|Dame Milicent Fawcett]], British suffragist (d. [[1929]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Luella Dowd Smith]], American educator, author, and reformer (d. [[1941]])

=== July ===
[[File:President Hindenburg.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Paul von Hindenburg]]]]
[[File:Bram Stoker 1906.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Bram Stoker]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Marcel Alexandre Bertrand]], French geologist (d. [[1907]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Wong Fei-hung]], Chinese healer, revolutionary (d. [[1925]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Damian Sawczak]], Ukrainian judge (d. [[1912]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Alexander Meyrick Broadley]], British historian (d. [[1916]])
* [[July 20]]
** [[Lord William Beresford]], Irish army officer, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1900]])
** [[Max Liebermann]], German painter, printmaker (d. [[1935]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Paul Langerhans]], German pathologist, biologist (d. [[1888]])

=== August ===
* [[August 3]] – [[John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair]], Canadian politician, Governor General (d. [[1934]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Andrey Selivanov]], Russian general and politician (d. [[1917]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Hale Johnson]], [[American temperance movement]] leader (d. [[1902]])

=== September ===
* [[September 3]] – [[Charles Stillman Sperry]], American admiral (d. [[1911]])
* [[September 5]]
** [[Jesse James]], American outlaw (d. [[1882]])
** [[Joseph Bucklin Bishop]], American journalist, publisher (d. [[1928]])
* [[September 17]] – [[John I. Beggs]], American businessman (d. [[1925]])
* [[September 22]] – [[Enrique Almaraz y Santos]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (d. [[1922]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Anandamohan Bose]], Indian politician, academic and social reformer (d. [[1906]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Wilhelmina Drucker]], Dutch feminist (d. [[1925]])

=== October ===
[[File:Maria Pia of Savoy, dowager queen of Portugal.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Maria Pia of Savoy]]]]
[[File:Thomas F. Porter.png|thumb|110px|[[Thomas F. Porter]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Annie Besant]], English women's rights activist, writer and orator (d. [[1933]])<ref>Framke, Maria: [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/besant_annie/ Besant, Annie], in: [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/home.html/ 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War]</ref>
* [[October 2]] – [[Paul von Hindenburg]], German field marshal, [[President of Germany]] (d. [[1934]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, 13th Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1926]])
** [[Maurice Bailloud]], French general (d. [[1921]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Wilgelm Vitgeft]], Russian admiral (d. [[1904]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Ralph Albert Blakelock]], American romanticist painter (d. [[1919]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Maria Pia of Savoy]], [[Queen consort of Portugal]] (d. [[1911]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Chiquinha Gonzaga]], Brazilian composer (d. [[1935]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Aurilla Furber]], American author, editor, and activist (d. [[1898]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Mifflin E. Bell]], American architect (d. [[1904]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Koos de la Rey]], Boer general (d. [[1914]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Charlie Bassett]], American sheriff (d. [[1896]])
** [[Thomas F. Porter]], American politician, 32nd [[Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts]] (d. [[1927]])

=== November ===
* [[November 1]] – [[Emma Albani|Dame Emma Albani]], Canadian operatic soprano (d. [[1930]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Georges Sorel]], French socialist philosopher (d. [[1922]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Ugo Balzani]], Italian historian (d. [[1916]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Lotta Crabtree]], American stage actress (d. [[1924]])
* [[November 8]]
** [[Jean Casimir-Perier]], 6th President of France (d. [[1907]])
** [[Bram Stoker]], Irish author of the [[Gothic fiction|Gothic]] novel ''[[Dracula]]'' (d. [[1912]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Carlo Mirabello]], Italian admiral and politician (d. [[1910]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gemignani |first1=Marco |title=MIRABELLO, Carlo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-mirabello_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=treccani.it |publisher=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |access-date=4 February 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] – [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Dagmar of Denmark]], empress of Tsar [[Alexander III of Russia]] (d. [[1928]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Afonso Pena]], Brazilian president (d. [[1909]])

=== December ===
* [[December 1]] – [[Agathe Backer-Grøndahl]], Norwegian pianist, composer (d. [[1907]])
* [[December 9]] – [[George Grossmith]], English comic writer and performer (d. [[1912]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Émile Faguet]], French writer, critic (d. [[1916]])
** [[Michel-Joseph Maunoury]], French general during [[World War I]] (d. [[1923]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Augusta Holmès]], French composer (d. [[1903]])
* [[December 21]] – [[John Chard]], British Officer (d. [[1897]])
*[[December 29]] – [[Alexis-Xyste Bernard]], Canadian Catholic bishop (d. [[1923]])
* [[December 30]] – [[John Peter Altgeld]], American politician, 20th Governor of Illinois (d. [[1902]])