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== Births ==

=== January–February ===
[[File:Diesel 1883.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Rudolf Diesel]]]]
[[File:Max Planck 1933.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Max Planck]]]]
[[File:Gustaf V av Sverige.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gustaf V of Sweden]]]]
[[File:Lillie Eginton Warren (1902).png|thumb|110px|[[Lillie Eginton Warren]]]]
* [[January 7]] – [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]], Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language (d. [[1922]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Heinrich Zille]], German illustrator, photographer (d. [[1929]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Harry Gordon Selfridge]], American department store magnate (d. [[1947]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Harry Gordon Selfridge|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/533543/Harry-Gordon-Selfridge|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=6 June 2018}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Oskar Minkowski]], Lithuanian physician (d. [[1931]]) 
* [[January 22]] – [[Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard]], English soldier, explorer and colonial administrator (d. [[1945]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Lillie Eginton Warren]], American speech therapy pioneer (d. [[1926]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Neel Doff]], Dutch-born French author (d. [[1942]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Eugène Dubois]], Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist (d. [[1940]])
* [[February 15]] – [[John Joseph Montgomery]], American glider pioneer (d. [[1911]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Wilhelm Schmidt (engineer)|Wilhelm Schmidt]], German pioneer of [[superheated steam]] for use in [[Steam locomotive|locomotive]]s (d. [[1924]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Charles Alexander Eastman]], Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (d. [[1939]])<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/studies_in_american_indian_literatures/v017/17.2ruoff.html |last=Ruoff |first=A. LaVonne Brown |title=Eastman's Maternal Ancestry |journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures |series=2 |volume=17 |number=2  |pages=10–17 |year=2005 |doi=10.1353/ail.2005.0059 |s2cid=161273742 |accessdate=20 June 2022}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude]], Belgian general (d. [[1928]])

=== March–April ===
* [[March 6]] – [[Samuel Untermyer]], American lawyer (d. [[1940]]) 
* [[March 8]] – [[Ida Hunt Udall]], American diarist, homesteader (d. [[1915]]) 
* [[March 9]] – [[Gustav Stickley]], American furniture designer, architect (d. [[1942]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Kōkichi Mikimoto]], Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. [[1954]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Liberty Hyde Bailey]], American botanist (d. [[1954]]) 
* [[March 18]] – [[Rudolf Diesel]], German inventor, automotive pioneer (d. [[1913]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Engineer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wDBEAQAAIAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Morgan-Grampian (Publishers)|page=386}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – [[Ludwig Quidde]], German pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1941]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bernard S. Schlessinger|author2=June H. Schlessinger|title=The Who's who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0c4PgFznyMC|year=1996|publisher=Oryx Press|isbn=978-0-89774-899-5|page=157}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer]], German physician, bacteriologist (d. [[1945]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Joséphin Péladan]], French novelist (d. [[1918]])
* [[March 30]] – [[DeWolf Hopper]], American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer (d. [[1935]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Mary Harrison McKee]], ''de facto'' [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[April 19]] – [[May Robson]], Australian-born American actress (d. [[1942]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Fritz Mayer van den Bergh]], Belgian art collector and art historian (d. [[1901]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Max Planck]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1947]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Mary Dimmick Harrison]], 2nd wife of President [[Benjamin Harrison]] (d. [[1948]])

=== May–June ===
* [[May 8]] – [[Heinrich Berté]], Austrian operetta composer (d. [[1924]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Cecil Burney]], British admiral (d. [[1929]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Édouard Goursat]], French mathematician (d. [[1936]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Horace Smith-Dorrien]], British general (d. [[1930]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ian F. W. Beckett|author2=Steven J. Corvi|title=Haig's Generals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMvHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT256|date=19 July 2007|publisher=Pen & Sword Books|isbn=978-1-78303-491-8|pages=256}}</ref>
* [[June 5]] – [[Carl Swartz]], 14th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[1926]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Charlotte Scott]], English mathematician (d. 1931)<ref>{{cite book | first=Patricia | last=Clark Kenschaft | chapter=Charlotte Angas Scott | editor1-last=Grinstein | editor1-first=Louise S. | editor2-last=Campbell | editor2-first=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=193}}</ref>
* [[June 12]] – [[Harry Johnston]], British explorer, botanist, artist, colonial administrator, linguist (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Henry Hamilton Johnston|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/african-history-biographies/sir-harry-hamilton-johnston|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Biography|access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 16]]
** King [[Gustaf V of Sweden]] (d. [[1950]])
** [[William D. Boyce]], founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. [[1929]])
** [[Isabel Grimes Richey]], American poet (d. [[1910]])
* [[June 19]] – Sir [[George Alexander (actor)|George Alexander]], English actor (d. [[1918]])
* [[June 20]]
**[[Charles W. Chesnutt]], African-American author, essayist, political activist (d. [[1932]])
**[[Paul Maistre]], French general (d. [[1922]])
**[[Alexander Ragoza]], Russian general and Ukrainian politician (d. [[1919]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Otis Skinner]], American film actor (d. [[1943]])

=== July–August ===
[[File:T Roosevelt.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Theodore Roosevelt]]]]
[[File:Selma Lagerlöf.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Selma Lagerlöf]]]]
[[File:GiacomoPuccini.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Giacomo Puccini]]]]
[[File:Emmeline Pankhurst, seated (1913).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emmeline Pankhurst]]]]
* [[July 9]] – [[Franz Boas]], German anthropologist (d. [[1942]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], English suffragette, mother of [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], [[Sylvia Pankhurst|Sylvia]] and [[Adela Pankhurst]] (d. [[1928]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Petar Bojović]], Serbian field marshal (d. [[1945]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Baba Sawan Singh]], Second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (d. [[1948]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Maria Christina of Austria]], queen consort of Spain, second wife of [[Alfonso XII of Spain]] (d. [[1929]])
* [[July 28]] – [[José Luis Tamayo]], 20th President of Ecuador (d. [[1947]])
* [[Gabriel Anton]], Austrian Neurologist (d. [[1933]])
* [[August 1]] – [[Hans Rott]], Austrian composer (d. [[1884]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont]], queen consort, regent of the Netherlands (d. [[1934]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Georgi Todorov (general)|Georgi Todorov]], Bulgarian general (d. [[1934]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Christiaan Eijkman]], Dutch physician, pathologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[August 13]] – [[G. E. M. Skues]], Newfoundland-born British inventor of nymph [[fly fishing]] (d. [[1949]])
* [[August 15]] – [[E. Nesbit]], English children's novelist (d. [[1924]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Thomas S. Rodgers]], American admiral (d. [[1931]])
* [[August 19]] 
**[[Alfred Dyke Acland]], British military officer (d. [[1937]])
**[[Ellen Willmott]], English horticulturalist (d. [[1934]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Ethlyn T. Clough]], American newspaper owner, editor, and manager (d. [[1936]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Giuseppe Peano]], Italian mathematician (d. [[1932]])<ref>{{cite book|author=H. Kennedy|title=Peano: Life and Works of Giuseppe Peano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_WPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-009-8984-9|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] – [[Ignaz Sowinski]], Polish architect (d. [[1917]])

=== September–October ===
* [[September 1]] 
** [[Andrew Jackson Zilker]], American philanthropist (d. [[1934]])
** [[Carl Auer von Welsbach]], Austrian chemist and inventor (d. [[1929]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jagdish Mehra|title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwmQTGB8LwMC&pg=PA162|year=1987|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95179-9|pages=162}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] – [[Emma Augusta Sharkey]], American [[Dime novel|dime novelist]] (d. [[1902]])
* [[September 16]]
**[[Carl August Ehrensvärd (1858–1944)|Carl August Ehrensvärd]], Swedish admiral and politician (d. [[1944]])
**[[Bonar Law]], Canadian-born [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1923]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Eccleshall|author2=Graham Walker|title=Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H6yGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA262|date=1 June 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-66231-9|pages=262}}</ref>
* [[September 21]] – [[Shimamura Hayao]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1923]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Eleonora Duse]], Italian actress (d. [[1924]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gaetana Marrone|author2=Paolo Puppa|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9NcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA654|date=26 December 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45530-9|pages=654}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] – [[John L. Sullivan]], American heavyweight boxing champion (d. [[1918]])
* [[October 15]] – [[William Sims]], American admiral (d. [[1936]])
* [[October 19]] – [[George Albert Boulenger]], Belgian naturalist (d. [[1937]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Take Ionescu]], 29th prime minister of Romania (d. [[1922]])
* [[October 27]]
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], 26th [[President of the United States]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1919]])
** [[Saitō Makoto]], Japanese admiral, 19th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1936]])

=== November–December ===
* [[November 10]] – [[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line]], German prince (d. [[1928]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Selma Lagerlöf]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1940]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomson Gale (Firm)|title=Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Lagerkvist-Pontoppidan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fqQjAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8149-4|page=29}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] – [[Albert Ranft]], Swedish theatre director, actor (d. [[1938]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Katharine Drexel]], American [[Roman Catholic]] [[saint]] (d. [[1955]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]], Indian physicist (d. [[1937]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Monoranjon Gupta|title=Jagadishchandra Bose: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bp4gAQAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan|page=2}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] – [[Kata Dalström]], Swedish politician (d. [[1923]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Adolf Schiel]], German-born officer in Boer armed forces (d. [[1903]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian composer (d. [[1924]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Herman P. Faris]], American temperance movement leader (d. [[1936]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Juan Luis Sanfuentes]], 16th President of Chile (d. [[1930]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Belmont Parker|title=Chileans of To-day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Dk_AAAAIAAJ|year=1920|publisher=G. P. Putnam's sons|page=1}}</ref>