Editing 1849 (section)

=== January–March ===
[[File:Edmund Barton crop.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Edmund Barton]]]]
[[File:Aleksander Świętochowski by Ignacy Łopieński (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Aleksander Świętochowski]]]]
[[File:AugustStrindberg.jpg|thumb|110px|[[August Strindberg]]]]
[[File:Oskar Hertwig.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Oscar Hertwig]]]]
[[File:Lord Randolph Churchill.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Lord Randolph Churchill]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 134-C1743, Alfred von Tirpitz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alfred von Tirpitz]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2004-0098A, Bernhard von Bülow.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bernhard von Bülow]]]]
[[File:Empress Shoken2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Empress Shōken]]]]
* [[January 8]] – [[Stepan Makarov]], Russian admiral (d. [[1904]])
* [[January 9]] – [[John Hartley (tennis)|John Hartley]], English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. [[1935]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench]], Spanish impressionist painter (d. [[1916]])
* [[January 14]] – [[James Moore (cyclist)|James Moore]], English winner of the first ever cycle race (d. [[1935]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Aleksander Świętochowski]], Polish writer of the Positivist period (d. [[1938]])
** [[Edmund Barton|Sir Edmund Barton]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1920]])
* [[January 22]] – [[August Strindberg]], Swedish author, playwright, and painter (d. [[1912]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Lord Randolph Churchill]], British statesman (d. [[1895]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Alexander Kielland]], Norwegian author (d. [[1906]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Giovanni Passannante]], Italian anarchist (d. [[1910]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Georg Luger]], Austrian firearm designer (d. [[1923]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Luther Burbank]], American biologist, botanist (d. [[1926]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Alfred von Tirpitz]], German admiral (d. [[1930]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Franz S. Exner]], Austrian physicist (d. [[1926]])