1916) August 15 – Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major, Scottish-born Swiss physician (d. 1923) August 17 – Mariano Rampolla, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1913) August 18 – Moritz Brasch, German philosopher (d. 1895) August 19 – C. I. Scofield, American theologian (d. 1921) August 20 – Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1921) August 21 – Marion McCarrell Scott, American educator (d. 1922) August 22 – John M. Thome, American astronomer (d. 1908) August 23 – William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932) August 24 – Ernst Wülcker, German archivist and lexicographer (d. 1895) August 26 – Victor Gardthausen, German ancient historian (d. 1925) August 27 – Wilhelm Wisser, German dialectologist (d. 1935) August 28 – August Sedláček, Czech historian (d. 1926) August 29 – Alfred Agache, French painter (d. 1915) August 30 – Carl Theodor Albrecht, German astronomer (d. 1915) August 31 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919) September September 1 – William Ziegler, American industrialist (d. 1905) September 2 – Richard Alsop Wise, American educator (d. 1900) September 4 Charles Dilke, British statesman (d. 1911) Jabez Balfour, English businessman and fraudster (d. 1916) September 5 – Friedrich Reusch, German sculptor (d. 1906) September 6 – Alexander Fok, Russian general (d. 1926) September 7 – Otto von Diederichs, German admiral (d. 1918) September 9 – Oscar Montelius, Swedish archaeologist (d. 1921) September 10 – William Gill, English explorer (d. 1882) September 11 – Adolf Wach, German jurist (d. 1926) September 12 – Daniel F. Davis, American politician and 37th governor of Maine (d. 1897) September 14 – Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist (d. 1924) September 16 – George Brettingham Sowerby III, British conchologist, publisher, illustrator (d. 1921) September 17 – William Elliot Griffis, American Congregationalist minister (d. 1928) September 18 – Charles Valentine Riley, British-born American entomologist and artist (d. 1895) September 19 Homer D. Call, American politician (d. 1929) François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot, Quebec political figure (d. 1908) September 20 – Julius Lessing, German art historian (d. 1908) September 21 – Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville, French politician (d. 1924) September 22 – Pietro Respighi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1913) September 23 – Emily Warren Roebling, American engineer (d. 1903) September 24 – Carl Constantin Platen, German physician (d. 1899) September 25 Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, American geologist (d. 1928) Melville Reuben Bissell, American entrepreneur (d. 1889) September