is established in London. Date unknown Samuel Colt incorporates his business as the Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company and opens a new factory, the Colt Armory, in Hartford, Connecticut. The cocaine alkaloid is first isolated by German chemist Friedrich Gaedcke. Palm oil sales from West Africa to the United Kingdom reach 40,000 tons. Births January–June January 5 – King C. Gillette, American razor inventor (d. 1932) January 20 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899) January 21 John Browning, American firearms inventor (d. 1926) Henry Jackson, British admiral (d. 1929) February 6 – Barbara Galpin, American journalist (d. 1922) February 12 – Marie-Anne de Bovet, French writer February 13 – Paul Deschanel, President of France (d. 1922) February 17 – Otto Liman von Sanders, German general (d. 1929) February 24 – Johannes von Eben, German general (d. 1924) March 4 – Luther Emmett Holt, American pediatrician (d. 1924) March 12 – Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (d. 1920) March 13 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916) March 24 – Andrew Mellon, American banker, philanthropist (d. 1937) March 25 – Grace Carew Sheldon, American journalist and businesswoman (d. 1921) March 29 – James O. Barrows, American stage and screen actor (d.1925) April 9 Pavlos Kountouriotis, Greek admiral, 2-time president (d. 1935) John Marden, Australian headmaster, pioneer of women's education (d. 1924) April 21 – Hardy Richardson, American baseball player (d. 1931) April 23 – Marco Fidel Suárez, 9th President of Colombia (d. 1927) April 27 – Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, French feminist (d. 1929) April 28 – Mario Nicolis di Robilant, Italian general (d. 1943) May 1 – Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924) May 8 – Bohuslav Brauner, Czech chemist (d. 1935) May 9 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932) May 10 – Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Bengali yogi, author of The Holy Science (d. 1936) May 21 Émile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (d. 1916) Ella Stewart Udall, American telegraphist (d. 1937) May 23 – Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (d. 1924) May 28 – Emilio Estrada Carmona, 18th President of Ecuador (d. 1911) June 1 – Edward Angle, American dentist (d. 1930) June 2 – Archibald Berkeley Milne, British admiral (d. 1938) June 14 – Robert M. La Follette, American politician (d. 1925) June 18 – Alice Sudduth Byerly, American temperance activist (d. 1904) June 28 – Theodor Reuss, German occultist (d. 1923)