Editing 1871 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–February ===
[[File:(Portrait of James Weldon Johnson) (LOC) - Flickr - The Library of Congress.jpg|110px|thumb|[[James Weldon Johnson]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Ebert face.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Friedrich Ebert]]]]
[[File:BIRDIE BLYE.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Birdie Blye]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R98911, Heinrich Mann.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Heinrich Mann]]]]
[[File:Morgenstern-h420.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Christian Morgenstern]]]]
[[File:Ernst Stromer.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Manuel Gondra]], Paraguayan author and journalist, 21st [[President of Paraguay]] (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Manuel Gondra|author2=Carlos E. Castañeda|author3=Jack Autrey Dabbs|title=Calendar of the Manuel E. Gondra Manuscript Collection, the University of Texas Library|publisher=Editorial Jus|year=1952|page=xv}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[Émile Borel]], French mathematician, politician (d. [[1956]])
* [[January 8]] – [[William O. Taylor]], American newspaper executive (d. [[1955]])
* [[January 17]] – [[David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty]], British admiral (d. [[1936]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty – The Last Naval Hero: An Intimate Biography |last=Roskill |first=Captain Stephen Wentworth |location=London |publisher=Collins |year=1980 |isbn=0-689-11119-3 | page=20}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – [[Frederick Maurice (military historian)|Frederick Maurice]],  [[British Army]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]], [[Correspondent|military correspondent]], writer and academic (d. [[1951]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Fabián García]], Mexican-American [[Horticulture|horticulturist]] (d. [[1948]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Wilfred Lucas]], Canadian-born actor (d. [[1940]])
* [[February 4]] 
** [[Friedrich Ebert]], [[President of Germany]] (d. [[1925]])
** [[Heinrich Schnee]], [[Germans|German]] lawyer, colonial civil servant, politician, writer, and association official (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 6]] – [[C. V. Kunhiraman]], Indian social reformer, journalist and the founder of ''[[Kerala Kaumudi]]'' daily (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Howard Taylor Ricketts]], American pathologist (d. [[1910]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Florence Roberts (actress, born 1871)|Florence Roberts]], American stage actress (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Harry Brearley]], English inventor (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Lesya Ukrainka]], born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian writer; political, civil and feminist activist (d. [[1913]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Matti Turkia]], Finnish politician (d. [[1946]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Matti Turkia |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725145056/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |archive-date=25 July 2020 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Otto Praeger]], American postal official, implemented U.S. Airmail (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 28]] 
** [[Manuel Díaz Rodríguez]], Venezuelan writer and politician (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Solé | first = Carlos A | title = Latin American writers | publisher = Scribner | location = New York | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780684185972 | page=431}}</ref>
** [[Arthur Charles Fox-Davies]], British expert on [[heraldry]] (d. [[1928]])

=== March–April ===
* [[March 1]] 
** [[Ben Harney]], American composer and pianist (d. [[1938]])
** [[Hermann Kallenbach]], Lithuanian-born Jewish South African architect (d. [[1945]])
** [[Oskar Heinroth]], German biologist and zoologist (d. [[1945]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Boris Galerkin]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1945]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Rosa Luxemburg]], German politician (d. [[1919]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Rosa Luxemburg Murder Case Reopened|last=Wroe|first=David|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6840393/Rosa-Luxemburg-murder-case-reopened.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6840393/Rosa-Luxemburg-murder-case-reopened.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|date=18 December 2009|access-date=30 November 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] – [[Afonso Costa]], Portuguese lawyer, professor, politician and 3-time [[Prime Minister of Portugal]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Edward FitzGerald (mountaineer)|Edward FitzGerald]], American-born [[Mountaineering|mountaineer]] and soldier of British descent (d. [[1931]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Kitty Marion]], German-born actress and women's rights activist in England and the United States (d. [[1944]])
* [[March 15]] 
** [[Constantin Argetoianu]], 41st Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1955]])
** [[James B. A. Robertson]], American lawyer, judge and the fourth [[governor of Oklahoma]] (d. [[1938]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Konstantinos Pallis]], Greek general (d. [[1941]])
* [[March 19]] 
** [[Schofield Haigh]], English cricketer (d. [[1921]])
** [[John Henry Taylor]], English professional golfer (d. [[1963]])
** [[Baroness Mary Vetsera]] (d. [[Mayerling Incident|1889]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Birdie Blye]], American pianist (d. [[1935]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole]], Hawaiian royalty and politician (d. [[1922]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Heinrich Mann]], German writer (d. [[1950]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Herman van Roijen (born 1871)|Herman van Roijen]], Dutch diplomat (d. [[1933]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Aleksei Chichibabin]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Russia|Russian]] organic chemist (d. [[1945]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Arthur Griffith]], [[President of Ireland]] (d. [[1922]])
* [[April 1]] – [[F. Melius Christiansen]], [[Norway|Norwegian]]-born violinist and [[choral conductor]] (d. [[1955]])
* [[April 3]] – [[John Wren]], Australian business man (d. [[1953]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Luke McNamee]], American admiral (d. [[1952]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Giorgi Mazniashvili]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] general and prominent military figures in the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Charlotte Maxeke]], South African religious leader, social and political activist (d. [[1939]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Clarence Hudson White]], American photographer (d. [[1925]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Ioannis Metaxas]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1941]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius]], Lithuanian author, [[Roman Catholic]] archbishop and blessed (d. [[1927]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Jonathan Zenneck]], German physicist, electrical engineer (d. [[1959]])

=== May–June ===
* [[May 2]] – [[Francis P. Duffy]], Canadian-born American Catholic priest (d. [[1932]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Emmett Dalton]], American outlaw, train robber and member of the [[Dalton Gang]] (d. 1937)
* [[May 6]]
** [[Victor Grignard]], French chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] laureate (d. [[1935]])
** [[Christian Morgenstern]], German author (d. [[1914]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Gyula Károlyi]], 29th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1947]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia]], third son of [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]], [[Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Maria of Russia]] and brother of [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] (d. [[1899]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Walter Stanley Monroe]], businessman, politician, and former [[List of premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador#Dominion Prime Ministers of Newfoundland (1907–1934)|Prime Minister]] of [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]] (d. [[1952]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Walter Russell]], American artist (d. [[1963]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Camille Huysmans]], Belgian politician and former [[prime minister of Belgium]] (d. 1968)
* [[May 27]] – [[Georges Rouault]], French painter, graphic artist (d. [[1958]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Teriimaevarua III]], last [[Queen regnant|Queen]] of [[Bora Bora]] (d. [[1932]])
* [[June 5]] 
** [[Nicolae Iorga]], 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1940]])<ref>Victor Iova, "Tabel cronologic", in N. Iorga, ''Istoria lui Mihai Viteazul'', Vol. I, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1979, pp. xxvii.  {{OCLC|6422662}}</ref>
** [[Michele Angiolillo]], [[Italian anarchist]] (d. [[1897]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Khwaja Salimullah]], fourth [[Nawab of Dhaka]] and one of the leading Muslim politicians during the [[British Raj|British rule in India]] (d. [[1915]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Howard Gould]], American financier and the son of [[Jay Gould]] (d. [[1959]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Walter Cowan]], British admiral (d. [[1956]])
* [[June 12]] 
** [[Ernst Stromer]], German paleontologist (d. [[1952]])
** [[Lu Zhengxiang]], Chinese [[diplomat]] and a [[Roman Catholic]] priest and monk (d. [[1949]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Princess Hélène of Orléans]], member of the deposed [[House of Orléans|Orléans royal family]] of France (d. [[1951]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Jacob Ellehammer]], Danish inventor (d. [[1946]])
* [[June 17]] – [[James Weldon Johnson]], American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter and early civil rights activist (d. [[1938]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Edmund Breese]], American actor (d. [[1936]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Jantina Tammes]], Dutch plant biologist (d. [[1947]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Reginald R. Belknap]], United States Navy rear admiral (d. [[1959]])

=== July–August ===
[[File:Marcel Proust vers 1895.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Marcel Proust]]]]
[[File:Orville Wright-1928.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Orville Wright]]]]
[[File:Ernest Rutherford LOC.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Ernest Rutherford]]]]
[[File:Pietro Badoglio 3.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Pietro Badoglio]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Wilhelm von Mirbach]], German diplomat (d. [[1918]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Claus Schilling]], German medical researcher and war criminal (d. [[1946]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Marcel Proust]], French writer (d. [[1922]])
* [[July 13]] – [[John Norton-Griffiths]], British engineer, army officer, and politician (d. [[1930]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Lyonel Feininger]], German painter (d. [[1956]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Sada Yacco]], Japanese stage actress (d. [[1946]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Aarnoud van Heemstra]], Dutch [[nobleman]], [[jurist]] and politician (d. [[1951]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Richard Turner (Canadian Army officer)|Richard Turner]], Canadian soldier (d. [[1961]])
* [[August 1]] – [[John Lester]], American [[cricket]]er (d. [[1969]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Oldest people|Augusta Holtz]], Polish-American supercentenarian, last surviving person born in 1871 (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Lillian Smith (trick shooter)|Lillian Smith]], American [[Exhibition shooting|trick shooter]] and [[trick rider]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[August 12]] 
** [[Gustavs Zemgals]], 2nd President of Latvia (d. [[1939]])
** [[Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada]], Cuban writer, politician, diplomat, and sixth [[President of Cuba]] (d. [[1939]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Karl Liebknecht]], German politician (d. [[1919]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Guangxu Emperor]] of China (d. [[1908]])
* [[August 19]]
** [[Orville Wright]], American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Wilbur (d. [[1948]])
** [[Joseph E. Widener]], American art collector (d. [[1943]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Sofia Panina]], Russian politician (d. [[1956]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Nils Edén]], 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[1945]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Edward Lavin Girroir]], Canadian politician (d. [[1932]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Theodore Dreiser]], American writer (d. [[1945]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Albert François Lebrun]], French politician (d. [[1950]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Ernest Rutherford]], New Zealand physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[August 31]] 
** [[Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg|Ernst II]], last reigning duke of [[Saxe-Altenburg]] and German general in [[World War I]] (d. [[1955]])
** [[Syed Hasan Imam]], [[Indian people|Indian]] [[politician]] and served as President of the [[Indian National Congress]] (d. [[1933]])

=== September–October ===
* [[September 1]] – [[J. Reuben Clark]], Under Secretary of State for U.S. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] (d. [[1961]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Francis Aylmer Maxwell]], [[British Indian Army|British-Indian Army]] officer in the [[Second Boer War]] and [[First World War|WWI]] (d. [[1917]])
* [[September 10]]
** [[Thomas Adams (architect)|Thomas Adams]], British urban planner (d. [[1940]])
** [[Charles Collett]], English [[Great Western Railway]] chief mechanical engineer (d. [[1952]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona|Scipione Borghese]], Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and race driver (d. [[1927]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Alma Kruger]], American actress (d. [[1960]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Aloysius, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg]]
* [[September 17]] – [[Eivind Astrup]], Norwegian Arctic explorer (d. [[1895]])
* [[September 19]] 
** [[Frederick Ruple]], Swiss-born American portrait painter (d. [[1938]])
** [[Gösta Lilliehöök (1871–1952)|Gösta Lilliehöök]], Swedish Army officer (d. [[1952]])
** [[Magnus Johnson]], American politician (d. [[1936]])
* [[September 22]] – [[Gaskell Romney]], American [[patriarch]] of the [[Romney family]] (d. [[1955]])
* [[September 23]] – [[František Kupka]], Czech painter and [[graphic artist]] (d. [[1957]]) 
* [[September 24]] – [[Lottie Dod]], English athlete (d. [[1960]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Winsor McCay]], American cartoonist, animator (d. [[1934]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Grazia Deledda]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1936]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Pietro Badoglio]], Italian field marshal, prime minister (d. [[1956]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Adolphe Stoclet]], Belgian engineer, financier and noted collector (d. [[1949]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Cordell Hull]], [[United States Secretary of State]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1955]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Kim Bo-hyon]], paternal grandfather of [[Kim Il Sung]], great-grandfather of [[Kim Jong Il]], and great-great-grandfather of [[Kim Jong Un]] (d. [[1955]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Sulejman Delvina]], Albanian politician (d. [[1932]])
* [[October 10]] – [[David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford|David Lindsay]], British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and art connoisseur (d. [[1940]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Sidney Dillon Redmond]], American civic leader, physician, lawyer, and politician (d. [[1948]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Alexander von Zemlinsky]], Austrian [[composer]], [[Conducting|conductor]], and teacher (d. [[1942]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Walter Bradford Cannon]], American physiologist (d. [[1945]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Harriet Boyd Hawes]], American archaeologist (d. [[1945]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Dénes Berinkey]], 21st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[1944]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Atul Prasad Sen]], Bengali composer, lyricist, singer, lawyer, philanthropist, social worker, educationist and writer (d. [[1934]])
* [[October 25]] – [[John Gough (British Army officer)|John Gough]], British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1915]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Vatslav Vorovsky]], Russian [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]], [[Marxist]] revolutionary, literary critic, publicist and [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] diplomat (d. [[1923]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Buck Freeman]], American baseball player (d. [[1949]])
** [[Paul Valéry]], French poet (d. [[1945]])

=== November–December ===
* [[November 1]] – [[Stephen Crane]], American writer (d. [[1900]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Dagmar Hansen]], Danish [[cabaret]]-singer, stage-performer and Denmark's first "[[pin-up girl]]" (d. [[1959]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Vladislav F. Ribnikar]], Serbian journalist (d. [[1914]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Wajed Ali Khan Panni]], Bengali aristocrat and philanthropist (d. [[1936]])<ref name="rcv">{{cite Banglapedia|article=Panni, Wazed Ali Khan|author=Mir Shamsur Rahman}}</ref>
* [[November 10]]  
** [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]], American best-selling novelist (d. [[1947]])
** [[Sachchidananda Sinha]], Indian lawyer, parliamentarian, and journalist (d. [[1950]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Amadeu Vives i Roig]], Spanish-Catalan composer and writer (d. [[1932]])
* [[November 23]] – [[William Watt (Australian politician)|William Watt]], Australian politician, [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. [[1946]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Luigi Sturzo]], Italian [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|Catholic priest]] and politician (d. [[1959]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Giovanni Giorgi]], Italian physicist and [[Electrical engineering|electrical engineer]] (d. [[1950]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Joe Kelley]], American [[National Baseball Hall of Fame|Baseball Hall of Famer]] (d. [[1943]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Emily Carr]], Canadian artist (d. [[1945]])
* [[December 14]] – [[August von Hayek]], Austrian physician and botanist (d. [[1928]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Manuel Fernández Silvestre]], Spanish general (d. [[1921]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Virginia Fábregas]], Mexican actress (d. [[1950]])<ref name="virginia">{{cite web |title=Virginia Fábregas |url=http://rotonda.segob.gob.mx/work/models/Rotonda/Resource/contenidos/P34t.html |publisher=Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres |access-date=13 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714124242/http://rotonda.segob.gob.mx/work/models/Rotonda/Resource/contenidos/P34t.html |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Meyer London]], American politician (d. [[1926]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni]], Moroccan [[sharif]] and tribal leader (d. [[1925]])
* [[Sevasti Qiriazi]], Albanian educator, women's rights activist (d. [[1949]])
* [[Zhang Jinghui]], Chinese general and politician, second and final [[Prime Minister of Manchukuo]] (d. [[1959]])
* [[Armando Falconi]], Italian [[Stage actor|stage]] and [[film actor]] (d. [[1954]])
* [[Cyrus Avery]], creator of [[U.S. Route 66|US Route 66]] (d. [[1963]])
* [[Hasan Rıza Pasha]], general in the [[Military of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Army]] (d. [[1913]])
* [[Isfandiyar Khan]], [[Khan of Khiva]] between September 1910 and 1 October 1918 (d. [[1918]])
* [[R. Ramachandra Rao]], Indian civil servant, mathematician and social and political activist (d. [[1936]])
* [[Konstantinos Spanoudis]], Greek politician and journalist (d. [[1941]])