west of the Mississippi River, opens in San Francisco as Minn's Evening School. Births January–March January 2 – Uryū Sotokichi, Japanese admiral (d. 1937) January 4 – Émile Courtet, French caricaturist, animator (d. 1938) January 12 Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1910) Léon de Witte de Haelen, Belgian general (d. 1933) January 13 – Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (d. 1935) January 18 – Otto von Below, German general (d. 1944) January 26 – The 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (d. 1875) January 31 – George Jackson Churchward, British chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway(d. 1933) February 1 – Lucy Wheelock, American early childhood education pioneer within the kindergarten movement (d. 1946) February 13 – Almanzo James Wilder, American writer (d. 1949) February 18 – Dmitry Shcherbachev, Russian general (d. 1932) February 22 Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941) Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894) March 4 Constantin Coandă, Romanian general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1932) Aleksei Evert, Russian general (d. 1918 or 1926) March 6 – George Dayton, American businessman, founder of Target Corporation (d. 1938) March 7 Genevieve Stebbins, American performer of the Delsarte system of expression (d. 1934) Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940) March 13 – Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, British general (d. 1932) March 15 – Christian Michelsen, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1925) March 21 – Hunter Liggett, American general (d. 1935) March 22 – Paul Doumer, President of France (d. 1932) March 26 – Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (d. 1929) March 27 Ella Hepworth Dixon, English author and editor (d. 1932) Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936) March 30 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926) April–June April 5 – Alexander of Battenberg, first Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893) April 14 Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, youngest child of Queen Victoria (d. 1944) Victor Horsley, English physician, surgeon (d. 1916) April 22 – Paul Dresser, American songwriter (d. 1906) April 23 – Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919) April 30 – Walter Simon, German philanthropist (d. 1920) May 1 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch art dealer (d. 1891) May 7 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930) May 10 – Viktor Graf von Scheuchenstuel, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1938) May 13 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of