Editing 1839 (section)

=== July–December ===
[[File:Portrait of J. D. Rockefeller.jpg|thumb|110px|[[John D. Rockefeller]]]]
[[File:Alfred_Sisley_photo_full.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Alfred Sisley]]]]
* [[July]] – [[Baba Jaimal Singh]], Founder of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (d. [[1903]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Édouard Pottier]], French admiral (d. [[1903]])
* [[July 8]] – [[John D. Rockefeller]], American industrialist, philanthropist (d. [[1937]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Ephraim Shay]], American inventor of the [[Shay locomotive]] (d. [[1916]])
* [[July 18]] – [[James Surtees Phillpotts]], English author (d. [[1930]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Jacob Hägg]], Swedish admiral and painter (d. [[1931]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Isabelle Gatti de Gamond]], Italo-Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician (d. [[1905]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Ignacio Andrade]], 37th President of Venezuela (d. [[1925]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Walter Pater]], English essayist, critic (d. [[1894]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Nelson A. Miles]], American general (d. [[1925]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Antonín Petrof]], Czech piano maker (d. [[1915]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Henry George]], American writer, politician, and political economist (d. [[1897]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Patricio Montojo y Pasarón]], Spanish admiral (d. [[1917]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Gregorio Luperón]], Dominican soldier, activist and general (d. [[1897]]) 
* [[September 10]] – [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (d. [[1914]])
* [[September 12]] –  [[Mary H. Graves]], American minister, literary editor, writer (d. [[1908]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Oscar de Négrier]], French general (d. [[1913]])
* [[October 9]]
** [[Georges Leclanché]], French electrical engineer, inventor (d. [[1882]])
** [[Winfield Scott Schley]], American admiral (d. [[1911]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Jeanne Merkus]], Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier, and political activist (d. [[1897]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Alfred Sisley]], French Impressionist landscape painter (d. [[1899]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Pál Luthár]], Slovene writer in Hungary (d. [[1919]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Frank Furness]], American architect, soldier (d. [[1912]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Emil Škoda]], Czech engineer, industrialist (d. [[1900]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Christian Wilberg]], German painter (d. [[1882]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Catherine Amanda Coburn]], American journalist, newspaper editor (d. [[1913]])
* [[December 5]] – [[George Armstrong Custer]], American cavalry officer (d. [[1876]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Redvers Buller|Sir Redvers Buller]], British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. [[1908]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Sherman Conant]], American soldier and politician (d. [[1890]])