(d. 1928) January 23 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943) January 24 – Edith Wharton, American fiction writer (d. 1937) January 29 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934) January 30 – Walter Damrosch, German-born American orchestral conductor (d. 1950) February 3 – James Clark McReynolds, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1946) February 4 Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, 13th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1953) George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer, journalist (d. 1920) February 7 – Bernard Maybeck, American Arts and Crafts architect (d. 1957) February 8 – Ferdinand Ferber, French Army captain, aviation pioneer (d. 1909) February 17 – Edward German, English composer (d. 1936) March 4 – Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist, meteorologist (d. 1940) March 8 – George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born American military hero (d. 1904) March 13 – Jane Delano, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. 1919) March 14 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist, meteorologist (d. 1951) March 25 – George Sutherland, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1942) March 28 – Aristide Briand, French politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932) March 29 – Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-born American painter (d. 1947) April–June April 2 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American president of Columbia University, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947) April 6 – Georges Darien, French writer (d. 1921) April 11 Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist, politician, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948) Lurana W. Sheldon, American author and editor (d. 1945) April 26 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter (d. 1938) April 27 – Rudolph Schildkraut, Ottoman-born Austrian actor (d. 1930) May 15 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist, narrator (d. 1931) May 27 – John Kendrick Bangs, American author, satirist (d. 1922) June 5 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930) June 7 – Philipp Lenard, Hungarian–German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1947) June 10 – John de Robeck, British admiral (d. 1928) June 21 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince, historian (d. 1943) June 27 – May Irwin, Canadian actress, singer (d. 1938) July–September July 2 William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942) Christopher Cradock, British admiral (d. 1914) July 8 – Josephine White Bates, Canadian-born American author (d. 1934) July 14 Florence Bascom, American geologist and