explorer, botanist, artist, colonial administrator, linguist (d. 1927) June 16 King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950) William D. Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1929) Isabel Grimes Richey, American poet (d. 1910) June 19 – Sir George Alexander, English actor (d. 1918) June 20 Charles W. Chesnutt, African-American author, essayist, political activist (d. 1932) Paul Maistre, French general (d. 1922) Alexander Ragoza, Russian general and Ukrainian politician (d. 1919) June 28 – Otis Skinner, American film actor (d. 1943) July–December July 9 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942) July 14 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette, mother of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst (d. 1928) July 16 – Petar Bojović, Serbian field marshal (d. 1945) July 20 – Baba Sawan Singh, Second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (d. 1948) July 21 – Maria Christina of Austria, queen consort of Spain, second wife of Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1929) July 28 – José Luis Tamayo, 20th president of Ecuador (d. 1947) August 1 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884) August 2 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, queen consort, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934) August 10 – Georgi Todorov, Bulgarian general (d. 1934) August 11 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930) August 13 – G. E. M. Skues, Newfoundland-born British inventor of nymph fly fishing (d. 1949) August 15 – E. Nesbit, English children's novelist (d. 1924) August 18 – Thomas S. Rodgers, American admiral (d. 1931) August 19 Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (d. 1937) Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (d. 1934) August 21 – Ethlyn T. Clough, American newspaper owner, editor, and manager (d. 1936) August 27 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932) August 30 – Ignaz Sowinski, Polish architect (d. 1917) September 1 Andrew Jackson Zilker, American philanthropist (d. 1934) Carl Auer von Welsbach, Austrian chemist and inventor (d. 1929) September 15 – Emma Augusta Sharkey, American dime novelist (d. 1902) September 16 Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish admiral and politician (d. 1944) Bonar Law, Canadian-born Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923) September 21 – Shimamura Hayao, Japanese admiral (d. 1923) October 3 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924) October 12 – John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1918) October 15 – William Sims, American admiral (d. 1936) October 19 – George Albert Boulenger,