Editing 1838 (section)

=== January–March ===
[[File:Ernst Mach 01.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Ernst Mach]]]]
[[File:Ernest Solvay 1900s.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Ernest Solvay]]]]
[[File:Isabelle Bogelot.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Isabelle Bogelot]]]]
* [[January 4]] – [[General Tom Thumb]], American circus performer, entertainer (d. [[1883]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Anton Berindei]], Wallachian-born Romanian general and politician (d. [[1899]])
** [[Max Bruch]], German composer (d. [[1920]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Franz Brentano]], German philosopher, psychologist (d. [[1917]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Edward W. Morley]], American chemist noted for working on the [[Michelson–Morley experiment]] (d. [[1923]])
* [[February 2]] – [[John Joseph Jolly Kyle]], Scots-born Argentine chemist (d. [[1922]])<ref>Enrique Herrero Ducloux, "Juan J. J. Kyle (1838-1922)", Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, t. XCIII, 170, Buenos Aires, 1922.  [https://archive.org/stream/analesdelasocied94soci#page/n179/mode/1up]</ref>
* [[February 6]] – [[Henry Irving|Sir Henry Irving]], English actor (d. [[1905]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)|Sir Evelyn Wood]], British field marshal, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1919]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Julius Dresser]], American writer (d. [[1893]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Annetta Seabury Dresser]], American writer (d. [[1893]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Henry Brooks Adams]], American historian (d. [[1918]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Ernst Mach]], Austrian physicist, philosopher (d. [[1916]])
* [[March 3]] – [[George William Hill]], American astronomer (d. [[1914]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Ōkuma Shigenobu]], Japanese politician (d. [[1922]])
* [[March 12]] – [[William Henry Perkin|Sir William Perkin]], English chemist (d. [[1907]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Alice Cunningham Fletcher]], American [[ethnologist]], [[anthropologist]], and [[social scientist]] (d. [[1923]])