Editing 1875 (section)

=== January&ndash;February ===
[[File:1904 Thomas J Hicks.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Thomas Hicks (athlete)|Thomas Hicks]]]]
[[File:Ibn Saud.png|thumb|125x125px|King [[Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia|Ibn Saud]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-D0116-0041-019, Albert Schweitzer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Albert Schweitzer]]]]
[[File:JeanneCalmentaged40.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jeanne Calment]]]]
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Alexandros Diomidis]], Prime Minister of Greece (d. [[1950]])
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[J. Stuart Blackton]], American film producer (d. [[1941]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Leslie Green]], English architect (d. [[1908]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]], American sculptor, socialite (d. [[1942]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Reinhold Glière]], Russian composer (d. [[1956]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Felix Hamrin]], 22nd Prime Minister of Sweden (d. [[1937]])
** [[Albert Schweitzer]], Alsatian philosopher and musician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1965]])
* [[January 15]]
**[[Thomas Burke (sprinter)|Thomas Burke]], American sprinter (d. [[1929]])
**King [[Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia]] (d. [[1953]])
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[D. W. Griffith]], American film director (''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'') (d. [[1948]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Eddie Polo]], Austrian-American actor (d. [[1961]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Fritz Kreisler]], Austrian violinist (d. [[1962]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Prandtl]], German physicist (d. [[1953]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Erkki Melartin]], Finnish composer (d. [[1937]])
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Valentine O'Hara]], Irish author, authority on Russia and the [[Baltic states]] (d. [[1941]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Jeanne Calment]], French supercentenarian, world's longest lived person (d. [[1997]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Emma Dunn]], British-born stage, screen actress (d. [[1966]])