Editing 1841 (section)

=== January–June ===
[[File:Henry M Stanley 1872.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Henry Morton Stanley]]]]
[[File:Pierre Auguste Renoir, uncropped image.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]]]
* [[January 8]]
** [[Hakeem Noor-ud-Din]], Muslim scholar, 1st [[Caliph]] of the [[Ahmadiyya Muslim Community]] in [[Islam]] (d. [[1914]])
** [[Kate Stone]], American diarist (d. [[1907]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Berthe Morisot]], French painter (d. [[1895]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby]], English-Canadian politician, soldier (d. [[1908]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Benoît-Constant Coquelin]], French actor, ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' (d. [[1909]])
* [[January 25]] – [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher]], British admiral (d. [[1920]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Alexandru Candiano-Popescu]], Romanian general, lawyer, journalist, and poet (d. [[1901]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Henry Morton Stanley|Sir Henry Morton Stanley]], Welsh explorer, journalist (d. [[1904]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Félix Faure]], President of France (d. [[1899]])
* [[February 2]] – [[François-Alphonse Forel]], Swiss hydrologist (d. [[1912]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Clément Ader]], French engineer, inventor, and airplane pioneer (d. [[1926]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Sigrid Torsk]], Swedish jewellery designer (d. [[1924]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Alfred Heaver]], English property developer (d. [[1901]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales]], 4th President of Brazil (d. [[1913]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Armand Guillaumin]], French painter, lithographer (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Carl Gräbe]], German chemist (d. [[1927]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], French painter (d. [[1919]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Luigi Luzzatti]], Italian financier, economist, philosopher, and jurist, 20th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (d. [[1927]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1935]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Pietro Bonilli]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (d. [[1935]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Hermann Carl Vogel]], German astrophysicist, astronomer (d. [[1907]])
* [[April 9]] – [[William George Aston]], British consular official (d. [[1911]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Louis-Ernest Barrias]], French sculptor (d. [[1905]])
* [[May 10]] – [[James Gordon Bennett Jr.]], American newspaper publisher (d. [[1918]])
* [[May 14]] – Sir [[Squire Bancroft]], English actor (d. [[1926]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Clarence Dutton]], American geologist (d. [[1912]])
* [[June 1]] – [[Edward Lyon Buchwalter]], Union captain in the American Civil War, businessman, and banker (d. [[1933]])