Editing 1866 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–March ===
[[File:Frank Tudor.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Frank Tudor]]]]
[[File:Emilia Broomé.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Emilia Broomé]]]]
[[File:Matthew Charlton 1925.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Matthew Charlton]]]]
[[File:Reijiro Wakatsuki posing cropped.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wakatsuki Reijirō]]]]
* [[January 10]] – [[Hermanus Johannes Lovink]], Dutch agriculturalist and politician (d. [[1938]])<ref>{{cite web
 |publisher=[[Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands]]
 |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/lovink
 |access-date = 8 June 2024
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608002338/https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/lovink
 |archive-date=8 June 2024
|last=Poel
 |first=JMG van der
 |title=Lovink, Hermanus Johannes (1866–1938)
 |language=Dutch
 |date=12 November 2013
}}</ref>
* [[January 13]]
** [[George Gurdjieff]], Russian spiritual teacher (d. [[1949]])
** [[Vasily Kalinnikov]], Russian composer (d. [[1901]])
* [[January 15]]
** [[Nathan Söderblom]], Swedish archbishop, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1931]])
** [[Horatio Dresser]], American [[New Thought]] religious leader and writer (d. [[1954]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Percy Pilcher]], English inventor and pioneer aviator (d. [[1899]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Harry Davenport (actor)|Harry Davenport]], American actor (d. [[1949]])
* [[January 29]] 
** [[Romain Rolland]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1944]])
** [[Frank Tudor]], Australian politician (d. [[1922]])
* [[February 1]] – [[Agda Meyerson]], Swedish nurse and healthcare profession activist (d. [[1924]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Enrique Simonet]], Spanish painter (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 9]] – [[George Ade]], American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright (d. [[1944]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Janko Vukotić]], Montenegrin general (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Herbert Henry Dow]], Canadian chemical industrialist (d. [[1930]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Arthur Leopold Busch]], English-born American submarine pioneer (d. [[1956]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Hans Fruhstorfer]], German lepidopterist (d. [[1922]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Friedrich Boedicker]], German admiral (d. [[1944]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Matthew Charlton]], Australian politician (d. [[1948]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Emilio De Bono]], Italian general and fascist activist (d. [[1944]])
* [[March 21]]
** [[James Harbord]], American general (d. [[1947]])
** [[Wakatsuki Reijirō]], 25th and 28th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1949]])

=== April–June ===
[[File:Butch Cassidy with bowler hat.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Butch Cassidy]]]]
[[File:AnneSullivanMacy.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Anne Sullivan]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[Ferruccio Busoni]], Italian pianist and composer (d. [[1924]])
* [[April 3]] – [[J. B. M. Hertzog]], Boer General and 3rd Prime Minister of South Africa (d. [[1942]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Alfred Allen (actor)|Alfred Allen]], American actor (d. [[1947]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Butch Cassidy]], American outlaw (k. [[1908]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Anne Sullivan]], American tutor of [[Helen Keller]] (d. [[1936]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Ernest Starling]], English physiologist (d. [[1927]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Yamaya Tanin]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1940]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Josefa Toledo de Aguerri]], Nicaraguan pioneer educator (d. [[1962]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Hans von Seeckt]], German general (d. [[1936]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Ishii Kikujirō]], Japanese diplomat (d. [[1945]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Richard H. Jackson]], American four-star admiral (d. [[1971]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Erik Satie]], French composer (d. [[1925]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Charles F. Haanel]], American [[New Thought]] author and businessman (d. [[1949]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Miina Sillanpää]], Finnish politician (d. [[1952]])
* [[June 26]] 
** [[George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon]], English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. [[1923]])
** [[Josef Swickard]], German actor (d. [[1940]])

=== July–September ===
[[File:H.G. Wells by Beresford.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[H. G. Wells]]]]
[[File:Toulouse-Lautrec - Moulin Rouge - La Goulue.jpg|thumb|110px|[[La Goulue]]]]
[[File:Thomas_Hunt_Morgan.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thomas Hunt Morgan]]]]
[[File:Vassily-Kandinsky.jpeg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wassily Kandinsky]]]]
* [[July 6]] – [[Charles Mangin]], French general (d. [[1925]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Macklyn Arbuckle]], American actor (d. [[1931]])
* [[July 13]] – [[La Goulue]], French dancer (d. [[1929]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Frederick Blackman]], English plant physiologist (d. 1947)
* [[July 27]] – [[António José de Almeida]], 6th President of Portugal and 64th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. [[1929]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Beatrix Potter]], English children's author (''[[Peter Rabbit]]'' and ''[[The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck|Jemima Puddle-Duck]]'') (d. [[1943]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Adrien de Gerlache]], Belgian naval officer and explorer (d. [[1934]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Gheorghe Mărdărescu]], Romanian general and politician (d. [[1938]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Chief Thunderbird]], Native American actor (d. [[1946]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Matthew Henson]], African-American explorer (d. [[1955]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Jacinto Benavente]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1954]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Dmitry Merezhkovsky]], Russian novelist, poet and religious thinker (d. [[1941]])
* [[September 1]]
:* [[James J. Corbett]], American boxer (d. [[1933]])<ref>{{cite web |title=James J. Corbett {{!}} American boxer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-J-Corbett |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=8 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
:* [[Thomas F. Woodlock]], editor of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and [[Interstate Commerce Commission]] commissioner (d. [[1945]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Tristan Bernard]], French writer (d. [[1947]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Jeppe Aakjær]], Danish poet and novelist (d. [[1930]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Joe Vila]], American sportswriter (d. [[1934]])
* [[September 21]]
** [[Charles Nicolle]], French bacteriologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1936]])
** [[H. G. Wells]], English writer (d. [[1946]])
* [[September 22]] – [[Witmer Stone]], American ornithologist and botanist (d. [[1939]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Eurosia Fabris]], Italian Catholic ''Blessed'' (d. [[1932]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]], American geneticist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1945]])

=== October–December ===
[[File:Sun_Yat_Sen_portrait_2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Sun Yat-sen]]]]
[[File:J. Ramsay MacDonald LCCN2014715885 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ramsay MacDonald]]]]
* [[October 6]] 
** [[Reginald Fessenden]], Canadian inventor (d. [[1932]])
** [[Nina Bang]], Danish politician (d. [[1928]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Ramsay MacDonald]], Scottish [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Antonio Luna]], Filipino general (d. [[1899]])
** [[Dmitri Parsky]], Russian general (d. [[1921]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Paul Lincke]], German composer (d. [[1946]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Martha Annie Whiteley]], English chemist and mathematician (d. [[1956]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Sun Yat-sen]], Chinese revolutionary (d. [[1925]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Cornelia Sorabji]], Indian-born lawyer (d. [[1954]])
* [[November 28]] 
** [[Sy Sanborn]], American sportswriter (d. [[1934]])
** [[David Warfield]], American stage actor (d. [[1951]])
* [[November 30]]
** [[Robert Broom]], Scottish paleontologist (d. [[1951]])
** [[Andrey Lyapchev]], 22nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. [[1933]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Constantin Cristescu]], Romanian general (d. [[1923]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Ada Baker]], Australian soprano, singing teacher and vaudeville star (d. [[1949]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Alfred Werner]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1919]])
* [[December 16]] ([[December 4]] O.S.) – [[Wassily Kandinsky]], Russian-born painter (d. [[1944]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Kazys Grinius]], 5th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. [[1950]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Marie Cahill]], American singer and actress (d. [[1933]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Ilia Solomonovich Abelman]], Russian astronomer (d. [[1898]])<ref>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|title=ABELMAN, ILIA SOLOMONOVICH|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/231-abelman-ilia-solomonovich|author=[[Herman Rosenthal]]|volume=1|page=52}}</ref>
* [[William M. Dalton]], American Old West outlaw (d. [[1894]])