Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish novelist (d. 1916) March 8 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932) March 9 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1938) March 12 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (d. 1896) March 13 – Alice Bellvadore Sams Turner, American physician (d. 1915) – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906 [O.S. 1905]) March 26 – A. E. Housman, English poet (d. 1936) April–June April 3 – Reginald De Koven, American composer, music critic (d. 1920) April 7 – Jacques Loeb, German–American physiologist, biologist (d. 1924) April 8 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938) April 14 – Luigi Capello, Italian general (d. 1941) April 17 – Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1941) May 1 – Jacqueline Comerre-Paton, French artist (d. 1955) May 15 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906) May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (d. 1930) June 5 – Belle Archer, American actress (d. 1900) June 9 – Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (d. 1925) June 21 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist (d. 1937) July–September July 6 Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, British general (d. 1939) Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) July 13 – Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, British co-founder of the London School of Economics (d. 1947) July 28 – Mary Anderson, American stage actress (d. 1940) July 29 – Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, Portuguese priest (d. 1948) August 2 – Auguste Adib Pacha, 2-time prime minister of Lebanon (d. 1936) August 4 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952) August 16 – Dora Knowlton Ranous, American actress, author and translator (d. 1916) August 18 – Anna Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1935) September 3 – Jean Jaurès, French socialist (d. 1914) September 7 – Margaret Crosfield, British palaeontologist, geologist (d. 1952) September 16 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese dictator (d. 1916) September 17 William H. Bonney (Billy The Kid), American outlaw, gunfighter (d. 1881) I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (d. 1929) September 18 – Lincoln Loy McCandless, Hawaiian politician, rancher (d. 1940) September 19 – Marshall Pinckney Wilder, American actor, humorist, comedian and monologist (d. 1915) September 21 – Francesc Macià, Catalan politician (d. 1933) September 24 – Radko Dimitriev, Bulgarian and Russian general (d. 1918) September 28 – Alfredo Baquerizo,