Editing 1849 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–March ===
[[File:Edmund Barton crop.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Edmund Barton]]]]
[[File:Aleksander Świętochowski by Ignacy Łopieński (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Aleksander Świętochowski]]]]
[[File:AugustStrindberg.jpg|thumb|110px|[[August Strindberg]]]]
[[File:Oskar Hertwig.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Oscar Hertwig]]]]
[[File:Lord Randolph Churchill.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Lord Randolph Churchill]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 134-C1743, Alfred von Tirpitz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alfred von Tirpitz]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2004-0098A, Bernhard von Bülow.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bernhard von Bülow]]]]
[[File:Empress Shoken2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Empress Shōken]]]]
* [[January 8]] – [[Stepan Makarov]], Russian admiral (d. [[1904]])
* [[January 9]] – [[John Hartley (tennis)|John Hartley]], English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. [[1935]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench]], Spanish impressionist painter (d. [[1916]])
* [[January 14]] – [[James Moore (cyclist)|James Moore]], English winner of the first ever cycle race (d. [[1935]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Aleksander Świętochowski]], Polish writer of the Positivist period (d. [[1938]])
** [[Edmund Barton|Sir Edmund Barton]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1920]])
* [[January 22]] – [[August Strindberg]], Swedish author, playwright, and painter (d. [[1912]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Lord Randolph Churchill]], British statesman (d. [[1895]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Alexander Kielland]], Norwegian author (d. [[1906]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Giovanni Passannante]], Italian anarchist (d. [[1910]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Georg Luger]], Austrian firearm designer (d. [[1923]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Luther Burbank]], American biologist, botanist (d. [[1926]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Alfred von Tirpitz]], German admiral (d. [[1930]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Franz S. Exner]], Austrian physicist (d. [[1926]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 6]] – [[John William Waterhouse]], Italian-born British artist (d. [[1917]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Nikolai Nebogatov]], Russian admiral (d. [[1922]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Oscar Hertwig]], German zoologist (d. [[1922]])
* [[April 24]]
** [[Emma Whitcomb Babcock]], American litterateur and author (d. [[1926]])
** [[Helen Taggart Clark]], American journalist and poet (d. [[1918]])
** [[Joseph Gallieni]], French general (d. [[1916]])
* [[April 25]] – [[Felix Klein]], German mathematician (d. [[1925]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Augusto Aubry]], Italian admiral, politician (d. [[1912]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Kamimura Hikonojō]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1916]])
* [[May 3]]
** [[Bertha Benz]], German automotive pioneer (d. [[1944]])
** [[Bernhard von Bülow]], 8th [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1929]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Empress Shōken]], consort of [[Emperor Meiji|Emperor Meiji of Japan]] (d. [[1914]])
* [[May 19]] – [[John Hubbard (admiral)|John Hubbard]], American admiral (d. [[1932]])
* [[May 22]]
** [[Louis Perrier]], member of the [[Swiss Federal Council]] (d. [[1913]])
** [[Aston Webb|Sir Aston Webb]], British architect (d. [[1930]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Károly Khuen-Héderváry]], 2-time prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Alzina Stevens]], American labor leader, social reformer, and editor (d. [[1900]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Michael Ancher]], Danish painter (d. [[1927]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Pedro Montt]], 14th president of Chile (d. [[1910]])

=== July–September ===
[[File:Emmalazarusengraving.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emma Lazarus]]]]
[[File:Maurice Barrymore 001.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Maurice Barrymore]]]]
[[File:Sarah Orne Jewett 7.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Sarah Orne Jewett]]]]
[[File:Ivan Pavlov NLM3.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ivan Pavlov]]]]
[[File:James Whitcomb Riley, 1913.jpg|thumb|110px|[[James Whitcomb Riley]]]]
[[File:GeorgFrobenius (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georg Frobenius]]]]
[[File:Frances Burnett.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Frances Hodgson Burnett]]]]
* [[July 4]]
** [[Fernand de Langle de Cary]], French general (d. [[1927]])
** [[Vladimir Vasilyevich Smirnov]], Russian general (d. [[1918]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Emma Lazarus]], American author and activist (d. [[1887]])
* [[July 29]]
** [[Max Nordau]], Austrian author, philosopher and [[Zionism|Zionist]] leader (d. [[1923]])
** [[Edward Theodore Compton]], English-German painter and mountain climber (d. [[1921]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Seaton Schroeder]], American admiral (d. [[1922]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collection: Seaton Schroeder papers {{!}} U.S. Naval War College Archives |url=https://usnwcarchives.org/repositories/2/resources/334 |access-date=2023-10-17 |website=usnwcarchives.org}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] – [[William Ernest Henley]], English poet, writer, critic (d. [[1903]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Benjamin Godard]], French composer (d. [[1895]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Emma Curtis Hopkins]], American spiritual writer (d. [[1925]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Sarah Orne Jewett]], American writer (d. [[1909]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Edmund Poë|Sir Edmund Poë]], British admiral (d. [[1921]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Alexander von Krobatin]], Austro-Hungarian field marshal and politician (d. [[1933]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Ivan Pavlov]], Russian physiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1936]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Martha Place]], American murderer, first woman executed in the [[electric chair]] (d. [[1899]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Maurice Barrymore]], British-American stage actor, playwright (d. [[1905]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Hugo von Seeliger]], German astronomer (d. [[1924]])

=== October–December ===
*[[October 7]] – [[James Whitcomb Riley]], American poet and author (d. [[1916]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Mary Baker McQuesten]], Canadian letter writer and missionary (d. [[1934]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]], German mathematician (d. [[1917]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Oskar Enkvist]], Russian admiral (d. [[1912]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Marie Louise Andrews]], American author and editor (d. [[1891]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]], English-American playwright, author (d. [[1924]])
* [[November 29]] – [[John Ambrose Fleming|Sir Ambrose Fleming]], English electrical engineer, inventor (d. [[1945]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Eduard Seler]], Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (d. [[1922]])
* [[December 6]] – [[August von Mackensen]], German field marshal (d. [[1945]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Saionji Kinmochi]], Japanese prince and prime minister (d. [[1940]])
* [[December 12]] – [[William Kissam Vanderbilt]], American railway magnate (d. [[1920]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Laura M. Johns]], American suffragist, journalist (d. [[1935]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Henry Clay Frick]], American industrialist, art collector (d. [[1919]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[John W. Kern]], American politician (d. [[1917]])
** [[Raymond P. Rodgers]], American admiral (d. [[1925]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Nogi Maresuke]], Japanese general (d. [[1912]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Muhammad Abduh]], Islamic reformer (d. [[1905]])
* [[Elisabeth Cavazza]], American author, journalist, and music critic (d. [[1926]])
* [[Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge]], American philanthropist, author and reformer (d. [[1902]])
* [[Ellen Eglin]], American inventor
* [[Pavlos Karolidis]], Greek historian (d. [[1930]])
* [[Aleksandr Loran]], Russian inventor (d. [[1911]])
* [[Euphemia Wilson Pitblado]], American activist, social reformer, and writer (d. [[1928]])