– Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, British field marshal (d. 1913) June 24 Gustaf Åkerhielm, 6th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1900) Alfred William Bennett, English botanist (d. 1902) July–December July 14 – Alfred Biliotti, Italian Levantine British consular officer and archaeologist (d. 1915) July 26 – Gheorghe Manu, 17th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1911) July 27 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923) August 3 – Auguste Schmidt, German educator, women's rights activist (d. 1902) August 9 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (d. 1877) August 16 – Eliza Ann Otis, American poet, newspaper publisher and philanthropist (d. 1904) August 20 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901) September 2 – Henry Hotze, Swiss American Confederate propagandist (d. 1887) September 20 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1918) September 22 – Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, twice Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1913) October 2 – William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897) October 20 – Mary F. Eastman, American educator, lecturer, writer and suffragist (d. 1908) October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) October 23 – Antonio Flores Jijón, 13th President of Ecuador (d. 1915) November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908) November 9 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873) November 12 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887) November 13 – Edwin Booth, American tragedian (d. 1893) November 14 – Sir Hugh Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1909) November 19 – Eliza Lynch, First Lady of Paraguay (d. 1886) November 27 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897) November 30 – Frederick Richards British admiral (d. 1912) December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator, author of the Golden Law (d. 1889) December 13 – Petre S. Aurelian, 19th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1909) December 20 – Samuel Mudd, American doctor to John Wilkes Booth (d. 1883) December 25 – Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1916) Date unknown Margaret Fox, American medium (d. 1893) Fu Shanxiang, Chinese scholar, Chancellor (d. 1864) Deaths January–June January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752) January 16 –Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer (b. 1769) January 16 – Banastre Tarleton, British general, politician (b. 1754) January 23 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757) March