Editing 1848 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–March ===
[[File:Wyatt Earp portrait.png|thumb|110px|right|[[Wyatt Earp]]]]
[[File:otto-lilienthal.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Otto Lilienthal]]]]
[[File:Paul Gauguin 1891.png|thumb|110px|right|[[Paul Gauguin]]]]
* [[January 4]] – [[Katsura Tarō]], 6th prime minister of Japan (d. [[1913]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Hristo Botev]], Bulgarian revolutionary (d. [[1876]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Henri Duparc (composer)|Henri Duparc]], French composer (d. [[1933]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Vasily Surikov]], Russian painter (d. [[1916]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Tōgō Heihachirō]], Japanese admiral (d. [[1934]])
* [[February 5]]
** [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], French author (d. [[1907]])
** [[Belle Starr]], American outlaw (d. [[1889]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Hermann von Eichhorn]], German field marshal (d. [[1918]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Benjamin Baillaud]], French astronomer (d. [[1934]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Octave Mirbeau]], French art critic, novelist (d. [[1917]])
** [[Hugo de Vries]], Dutch botanist and geneticist (d. 1935)
* [[February 18]] – [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]], American glass artist (d. [[1933]])
* [[February 24]]
** [[Grant Allen]], Canadian author (d. [[1899]])
** [[Andrew Inglis Clark]], Australian jurist and politician (d. [[1907]])
* [[February 25]] – King [[William II of Württemberg]] (d. 1921)
* [[February 27]] – [[Hubert Parry|Sir Hubert Parry]], English composer (d. [[1918]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Adelaide Neilson]], English actress (d. [[1880]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll]], daughter of Queen Victoria (d. [[1939]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Wyatt Earp]], American lawman and gunfighter (d. [[1929]])
* [[March 21]] – David McNair, Scottish plasterer and amateur footballer (Falkirk F.C.) (d.[[1935]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Aleksey Kuropatkin]], Russian general, Imperial Russian Minister of War (d. [[1925]])
* [[March 31]] – [[William Waldorf Astor]], American-born British financier and statesman (d. [[1919]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 3]] – [[Arturo Prat]], Chilean lawyer and navy officer (d. [[1879]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Randall Davidson]], British [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Hubertine Auclert]], French feminist (d. [[1914]])
* [[April 27]] – King [[Otto, King of Bavaria|Otto of Bavaria]] (d. [[1916]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1919]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Thomas Lipton|Sir Thomas Lipton]], Scottish retailer and yachtsman (d. [[1931]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Howard Vernon (Australian actor)|Howard Vernon]], Australian actor (d. [[1921]])
* [[May 23]]
** [[Otto Lilienthal]], German engineer, aviation pioneer (d. [[1896]])
* [[May 25]]
** [[Helmuth von Moltke the Younger]], German general (d. [[1916]])
* [[June 7]]
** [[Paul Gauguin]], French artist (d. [[1903]])
** [[Dolores Jiménez y Muro]], Mexican revolutionary and educator (d. [[1925]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Cornélie Huygens]], Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist (d. [[1902]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Sol Smith Russell]], American stage comedian (d. [[1902]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Mary R. Platt Hatch]], American author (d. [[1935]])

=== July–September ===
[[File:Susie King Taylor.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Susie Taylor]]]]
* [[July 3]] – [[Lothar von Trotha]], German military commander (d. [[1920]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Gábor Baross]], Hungarian statesman (d. [[1892]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves]], 5th president of Brazil (d. [[1919]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Robert I, Duke of Parma]], last ruling Duke of Parma (d. [[1907]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Anatoly Stessel]], Russian baron and general (d. [[1915]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Vilfredo Pareto]], Italian economist (d. [[1923]])
* [[July 18]] – [[W. G. Grace]], English cricketer (d. [[1915]])
* [[July 22]]
** [[Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (d. [[1914]])
** [[Winfield Scott Stratton]], American miner (d. [[1902]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Arthur Balfour]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1930]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Olive]], French painter (d. [[1936]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Susie Taylor]], African American nurse and first nurse in the [[United States Colored Troops|Black Army]] (d. [[1912]])
* [[August 15]] – [[António José Enes|António Enes]], Portuguese writer and politician (d. [[1901]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Gustave Caillebotte]], French painter (d. [[1894]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Kate Claxton]], American actress (d. [[1924]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Gheorghe Bengescu]],  Romanian diplomat and man of letters (d. [[1922]])
* [[September 3]] 
** [[Emory Speer]], American politician, jurist, and United States district judge from 1885 until 1918 (d. [[1918]])
** [[Temulji Bhicaji Nariman]], Indian physician and [[obstetrician]] (d. [[1940]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Lewis Howard Latimer]], African-American inventor (d. [[1928]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Viktor Meyer]], German chemist (d. [[1897]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Friedrich Soennecken]], German entrepreneur, inventor of the hole punch and ringbinder (d. [[1919]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 3]] – [[Henry Lerolle]], French painter (d. [[1929]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Liborius Ritter von Frank]], Austro-Hungarian general (d. [[1935]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Harmon Northrop Morse]], American chemist (d. [[1920]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Gottlob Frege]], German logician (d. [[1925]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Zinovy Rozhestvensky]], Russian admiral (d. [[1909]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Eduard Müller (Swiss politician)|Eduard Müller]], [[member of the Swiss Federal Council]] (d. [[1919]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Albert I, Prince of Monaco]] (d. [[1922]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Sándor Wekerle]], 3-time prime minister of Hungary (d. [[1921]])
* [[November 20]] – [[James M. Spangler]], American inventor (d. [[1915]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Zhang Peilun]], Chinese naval commander and government official (d. [[1903]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Margaret Abigail Cleaves]], American physician and writer (d. [[1917]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Maximilian von Prittwitz]], German general (d. [[1917]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Paul Pau]], French general (d. [[1932]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Johann Palisa]], Austrian astronomer (d. [[1925]])
* [[December 17]] – [[William Wynn Westcott]], British freemason (d. [[1925]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Alexander Bedward]], Jamaican preacher (d. [[1930]])
* [[Alice Williams Brotherton]], American author (d. [[1930]])
* [[Maryana Marrash]], Syrian writer, salonist (d. [[1919]])
* [[Mírzá Mihdí]], youngest child of Baháʼí founder Baháʼu'lláh (d. [[1870]])
* [[Viktor Sakharov]], Russian general (d. [[1905]])
* [[Mary Thomas (labor leader)]], (d. [[1905]])