Editing 1836 (section)

=== January–June ===
[[File:Ramakrishna.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ramakrishna]]]]
[[File:Isabella Mary Beeton.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Isabella Beeton]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Mendele Mocher Sforim]], Russian Yiddish writer (d. [[1917]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema|Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema]], Dutch-English painter (d. [[1912]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Charles Ingalls|Charles Phillip Ingalls]], American [[Settler|pioneer]], father of author [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]] (d. [[1902]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Henri Fantin-Latour]], French painter (d. [[1904]])
** [[Hugh Judson Kilpatrick]], American general, politician, and diplomat (d. [[1881]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Signe Rink]], Greenland-born Danish writer, ethnologist (d. [[1909]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Leopold von Sacher-Masoch]], Austrian writer for whom masochism is named (d. [[1895]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Tenshoin]], wife of 13th Shōgun of Japan, [[Tokugawa Iesada]] (d.[[1883]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Robert Halpin]], Irish mariner, cable layer (d. [[1894]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Ramakrishna Paramhansa]], Indian religious leader (d. [[1886]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Léo Delibes]], French composer (d. [[1891]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Winslow Homer]], American painter (d. [[1910]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Henry Billings Brown]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1913]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Stuart Robson (actor)|Stuart Robson]], American stage comedian (d. [[1903]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Isabella Beeton]], English writer on household management (d. [[1865]])
* [[March 20]] – Sir [[Edward Poynter]], French-born British artist (d. [[1919]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Frederick Pabst]], German-American brewer (d. [[1904]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Charles Bendire]], U.S. Army captain, ornithologist (d. [[1897]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Manuel de la Cámara y Libermoore]], Spanish admiral (d. [[1920]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Touch the Clouds]], Native American chieftain (Teton Lakota Sioux) (d. [[1905]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Mélanie de Pourtalès]], French salonnière, courtier (d. [[1914]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Jay Gould]], American financier (d. [[1892]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Friedrich Baumfelder]], German composer, conductor, and pianist (d. [[1916]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Jules Chéret]], French printmaker (d. [[1932]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], English physician, suffragette (d. [[1910]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Wesley Merritt]], American general (d. [[1910]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Lyman J. Gage]], American financier (d. [[1927]])