Editing 1853 (section)

=== January–June ===
[[File:Vincent van Gogh - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project (454045).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Vincent van Gogh]]]]
[[File:Ella Eaton Kellogg, age 60.png|thumb|110px|[[Ella Eaton Kellogg]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Karl von Einem]], German general (d. [[1934]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Henning von Holtzendorff]], German admiral (d. [[1919]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer C. |title=World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection |date=2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1851099658 |pages=767–768|author1-link=Spencer C. Tucker }}</ref>
* [[January 16]]
**[[Johnston Forbes-Robertson]], English actor (d. [[1937]])
**[[Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton|Sir Ian Hamilton]], British general (d. [[1947]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Eusebio Hernández Pérez]], Cuban eugenicist, obstetrician, and guerrilla (d. [[1933]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[John Marks Moore]], American politician (d. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Daniell|first=Lewis E.|title=Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, Embracing the Executive Staff, Heads of Departments, United States Senators and Representatives, Members of the XXth legislature|date=1887|publisher=Press of the City Printing Company|publication-place=Austin|lccn=19016834|page=19|quote=The Secretary of State, was born in Houston county, Texas, on the twenty-third day of January, 1853.}}</ref>
* [[January 28]]
** [[José Martí]], Cuban revolutionary (d. [[1895]])
** [[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]], Russian philosopher (d. [[1900]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Kitasato Shibasaburō]], Japanese physician, bacteriologist (d. [[1931]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Kaneko Kentarō]], Japanese politician, diplomat (d. [[1942]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Ernest Fenollosa]], Catalan-American philosopher (d. [[1908]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Annie Le Porte Diggs]], Canadian-born state [[librarian]] of [[Kansas]] (d. [[1916]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Ella Loraine Dorsey]], American author, journalist, and translator (d. [[1935]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Howard Pyle]], American artist, fiction writer (d. [[1911]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Thomas Mackenzie]], 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. [[1930]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Robert William Felkin]], British writer (d. [[1926]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Ferdinand Hodler]], Swiss painter (d. [[1918]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]], 5th Qajarid Shah of Persia (d. [[1907]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Yakov Zhilinsky]], Russian general (d. [[1918]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Elihu Thomson]], English-American engineer, inventor, co-founder of [[General Electric]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Vincent van Gogh]], Dutch painter (d. [[1890]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Emil Jellinek]], German automobile entrepreneur (d. [[1918]])
* [[April 7]]
** [[Ella Eaton Kellogg]], American pioneer in dietetics (d. [[1920]])
** [[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany]] (d. [[1884]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Alphonse Bertillon]], French police officer, forensic scientist (d. [[1914]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Alexey Abaza]], Russian admiral and politician (d. [[1917]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Marie Robinson Wright]], American travel writer (d. [[1914]])
* [[May 20]]
**[[Ella Hoag Brockway Avann]], American educator (d. [[1899]])
**[[Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov]], Russian general (d. [[1920]])
* [[May 26]] - [[Placido Moreira Dias]], Brazilian military commander (d. ?)
* [[May 28]] – [[Carl Larsson]], Swedish painter (d. [[1919]])
* [[June 3]] – [[William Flinders Petrie]], English Egyptologist (d. [[1942]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Chester Adgate Congdon]], American mining magnate (d. [[1916]])