Hershey, American chocolate manufacturer (d. 1945) September 15 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1930) September 18 – John Hessin Clarke, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1945) September 20 – Antoine de Mitry, French general (d. 1924) September 28 – Lewis Bayly, British admiral (d. 1938) October–December October 2 Martinus Theunis Steyn, Boer lawyer, politician and statesman, sixth and last President of the Orange Free State (1896-1902) (d. 1916) A. E. Waite, British occultist (d. 1942) October 5 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (d. 1942) October 14 – Joseph Rucker Lamar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1916) October 24 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894) October 27 – Ernst Trygger, 19th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1943) November 5 Joseph Tabrar, British songwriter (d. 1931) Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944) November 9 – Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore, American physician (d. 1942) November 14 – Mihail Savov, Bulgarian general (d. 1928) November 15 – Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (d. 1918) November 17 – George Marchant, English-born inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist (d. 1941) November 26 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913) November 27 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952) November 28 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885) November 29 – Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911) December 3 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist (d. 1924) December 4 – Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, American poet and novelist (d. 1915) Date unknown Marguerite Merington, English-born American author (d. 1951) Deaths January–June January 27 – Dorothea Lieven, Baltic-German diplomat in Russian services (b. 1785) February 10 – David Thompson, British-Canadian explorer (b. 1770) February 15 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804) February 16 – Elisha Kent Kane, American explorer of the Arctic regions (b. 1820) March 9 – Dominic Savio, Italian adolescent saint (b. 1842) March 11 – Manuel José Quintana, Spanish poet (b. 1772) April 8 – Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827) May 2 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (b. 1810) May 11 – Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal, private detective (b. 1775) May 13 – Parley P. Pratt, early American Latter Day Saint movement leader (murdered) (b. 1807) May 23 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789) May 29 –