– I. P. Durfee, Minnesota State Senator (died 1916) January 29 – Edward W. Morley, chemist (died 1923) February 10 – Gustav Oelwein, founder of Oelwein, Iowa (died 1913) February 12 – Julius Dresser, writer (died 1893) February 16 – Henry Adams, historian (died 1918) February 22 – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, poet (died 1912) March 3 – George William Hill, astronomer (died 1914) April 3 – John Willis Menard, African American politician (died 1893) April 12 – John Shaw Billings, military and medical leader (died 1913) April 16 – Martha McClellan Brown, temperance leader (died 1916) May 10 – John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln (killed 1865) May 12 – James McMillan, Canadian-born U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1889 to 1902 (died 1902) June 16 – Cushman Kellogg Davis, 7th Governor of Minnesota from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1887 to 1900 (died 1900) July 8 – James B. McCreary, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1911 to 1915 (died 1918) July 9 – Philip Bliss, Gospel composer (died 1876) July 18 – John A. Kimberly, entrepreneur, co-founder of Kimberly-Clark (died 1928) July 20 – Augustin Daly, dramatist and theatre manager (died 1899) July Full Date Unknown – Bass Reeves, one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River (died 1910) July 30 – Henry A. du Pont, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1906 to 1917 (died 1926) September 29 – Henry Hobson Richardson, city architect (died 1886) October 1 – Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1885 to 1897 and 1901 to 1907 (died 1918) October 2 – Hester A. Benedict, president, Pacific Coast Women's Press Association (died 1921) October 8 – John Hay, author, biographer, 37th United States Secretary of State (died 1905) November 13 – Joseph F. Smith, 6th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918) December 3 – Cleveland Abbe, meteorologist (died 1916) Deaths January 12 – Joshua Humphreys, naval architect (born 1751) January 30 – Osceola, a leader of the Seminole during the Second Seminole War (born 1804; quinsy) March 7 – Robert Townsend, member of the Culper Spy Ring (born 1753) March 16 – Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician (born 1773) August 1 – John Rodgers, naval officer (born 1772) August 19 – James Geddes, engineer, surveyor, New York State legislator and