educator (d. 1945) Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist (d. 1918) July 15 – Ernest Troubridge, British admiral (d. 1926) July 16 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931) July 24 – Percy FitzPatrick, South African author, politician and mining financier (d. 1931) August 5 – Joseph Merrick (the Elephant Man), English sufferer from deformities (d. 1890) August 16 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player, coach (d. 1965) August 21 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (d. 1911) August 22 – Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918) August 24 – Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (d. 1956) August 26 – Herbert Booth, English-born Salvationist, third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926) August 29 Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1949) September 7 – Edgar Speyer, American-born international financier and philanthropist (d. 1932) September 11 Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British general, 12th Governor General of Canada (d. 1935) Hawley Harvey Crippen, American-born medical practitioner, uxoricide (hanged 1910) O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, American short-story writer (d. 1910) September 12 – Carl Eytel, German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (d. 1925) September 19 – Arvid Lindman, Swedish admiral, industrialist, and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1936) September 22 – Anastasios Charalambis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1949) September 23 – Denis Auguste Duchêne, French general (d. 1950) September 25 – Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952) September 27 – Louis Botha, Boer general, first Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1919) October–December October 3 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902) October 12 – Theodor Boveri, German biologist (d. 1915) October 13 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer (d. 1900) October 18 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952) October 19 – Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954) October 26 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter (d. 1944) October 27 – Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (d. 1928) October 28 – Nicholas Timothy Clerk, Gold Coast theologian, missionary and Presbyterian minister (d. 1961) November 5 – Annie Laurie Wilson James, American journalist focused on horses (unknown year of death) November 14 – George Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1914) November 15 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946) November 16 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944) November 19