advocate of the Hebrew language (d. 1922) January 10 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator, photographer (d. 1929) January 11 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947) January 13 – Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian physician (d. 1931) January 21 – Anna Bowman Dodd, American author (d. 1929) January 22 – Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, English soldier, explorer and colonial administrator (d. 1945) January 25 – Lillie Eginton Warren, American speech therapy pioneer (d. 1926) January 27 – Neel Doff, Dutch-born French author (d. 1942) January 28 – Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist (d. 1940) February 15 – John Joseph Montgomery, American glider pioneer (d. 1911) February 18 – Wilhelm Schmidt, German pioneer of superheated steam for use in locomotives (d. 1924) February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1939) February 24 – Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude, Belgian general (d. 1928) March 6 – Samuel Untermyer, American lawyer (d. 1940) March 8 – Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist, homesteader (d. 1915) March 9 – Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer, architect (d. 1942) March 10 – Kōkichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954) March 15 – Liberty Hyde Bailey, American botanist (d. 1954) March 18 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor, automotive pioneer (d. 1913) March 23 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941) March 27 – Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, German physician, bacteriologist (d. 1945) March 28 – Joséphin Péladan, French novelist (d. 1918) March 30 – DeWolf Hopper, American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer (d. 1935) April 3 – Mary Harrison McKee, de facto First Lady of the United States (d. 1930) April 19 – May Robson, Australian-born American actress (d. 1942) April 22 - Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, Belgian art collector and art historian (d. 1901) April 23 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) April 30 – Mary Dimmick Harrison, 2nd wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1948) May 8 – Heinrich Berté, Austrian operetta composer (d. 1924) May 21 – Édouard Goursat, French mathematician (d. 1936) May 26 – Horace Smith-Dorrien, British general (d. 1930) June 5 – Carl Swartz, 14th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1926) June 8 Charlotte Scott, English mathematician (d. 1931) Florence Hull Winterburn, American children's author (unknown year of death) June 12 – Harry Johnston, British