Editing 1871 (section)

=== January–February ===
[[File:(Portrait of James Weldon Johnson) (LOC) - Flickr - The Library of Congress.jpg|110px|thumb|[[James Weldon Johnson]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Ebert face.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Friedrich Ebert]]]]
[[File:BIRDIE BLYE.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Birdie Blye]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R98911, Heinrich Mann.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Heinrich Mann]]]]
[[File:Morgenstern-h420.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Christian Morgenstern]]]]
[[File:Ernst Stromer.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Manuel Gondra]], Paraguayan author and journalist, 21st [[President of Paraguay]] (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Manuel Gondra|author2=Carlos E. Castañeda|author3=Jack Autrey Dabbs|title=Calendar of the Manuel E. Gondra Manuscript Collection, the University of Texas Library|publisher=Editorial Jus|year=1952|page=xv}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[Émile Borel]], French mathematician, politician (d. [[1956]])
* [[January 8]] – [[William O. Taylor]], American newspaper executive (d. [[1955]])
* [[January 17]] – [[David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty]], British admiral (d. [[1936]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty – The Last Naval Hero: An Intimate Biography |last=Roskill |first=Captain Stephen Wentworth |location=London |publisher=Collins |year=1980 |isbn=0-689-11119-3 | page=20}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – [[Frederick Maurice (military historian)|Frederick Maurice]],  [[British Army]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]], [[Correspondent|military correspondent]], writer and academic (d. [[1951]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Fabián García]], Mexican-American [[Horticulture|horticulturist]] (d. [[1948]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Wilfred Lucas]], Canadian-born actor (d. [[1940]])
* [[February 4]] 
** [[Friedrich Ebert]], [[President of Germany]] (d. [[1925]])
** [[Heinrich Schnee]], [[Germans|German]] lawyer, colonial civil servant, politician, writer, and association official (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 6]] – [[C. V. Kunhiraman]], Indian social reformer, journalist and the founder of ''[[Kerala Kaumudi]]'' daily (d. [[1949]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Howard Taylor Ricketts]], American pathologist (d. [[1910]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Florence Roberts (actress, born 1871)|Florence Roberts]], American stage actress (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Harry Brearley]], English inventor (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Lesya Ukrainka]], born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian writer; political, civil and feminist activist (d. [[1913]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Matti Turkia]], Finnish politician (d. [[1946]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansanedustajat: Matti Turkia |url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |publisher=[[Parliament of Finland]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725145056/https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/kansanedustajat/Sivut/911650.aspx |archive-date=25 July 2020 |location=Helsinki, Finland |language=fi}}</ref>
* [[February 27]] – [[Otto Praeger]], American postal official, implemented U.S. Airmail (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 28]] 
** [[Manuel Díaz Rodríguez]], Venezuelan writer and politician (d. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Solé | first = Carlos A | title = Latin American writers | publisher = Scribner | location = New York | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780684185972 | page=431}}</ref>
** [[Arthur Charles Fox-Davies]], British expert on [[heraldry]] (d. [[1928]])