42nd governor of Ohio (d. 1929) October 16 Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900) Karl Kautsky, Czech Marxist theoretician (d. 1938) October 17 – Queenie Newall, British Olympic archer (d. 1929) October 20 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891) October 26 – C. W. Post, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1914) October 28 – Mary G. Charlton Edholm, American social purity and temperance reformer (d. 1935) October 30 – Franz Rohr von Denta, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1927) November 3 – Carlo Fornasini, micropalaeontologist (d. 1931) November 5 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) November 6 – John Philip Sousa, American composer, conductor (Stars and Stripes Forever) (d. 1932) November 8 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919) November 13 – George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer (d. 1931) November 17 – Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (d. 1934) November 19 – Danske Dandridge, Danish-born American poet, historian, and garden writer (d. 1914) November 21 – Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922) November 27 – Gerhard Louis De Geer, 17th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1935) December 14 – John Kemp Starley, English bicycle inventor (d. 1901) December 16 – Austin M. Knight, American admiral (d. 1927) December 22 – Takamine Jōkichi, Japanese chemist (d. 1922) December 24 – Thomas Stevens, English cyclist (d. 1935) Undated Jane Clouson, teenage British murder victim (d. 1871) Eliza D. Keith, American educator, author, and journalist (d. 1939) John Francon Williams, Welsh-born journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (d. 1911) Deaths January–June January 8 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) February 17 – John Martin, English painter (b. 1789) February 25 – Ann Walker, English landowner and philanthropist (b. 1803) March 6 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (b. 1778) March 11 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804) March 13 Sir Thomas Talfourd, English jurist (b. 1795) Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, Prime Minister of France (b. 1773) March 18 – Alexander Allan, Scottish businessman, founder of Allan Line (b. 1780) March 19 – William Pope Duval, first civilian governor of Florida Territory (b. 1784) March 21 – Pedro María de Anaya, 2-time President of Mexico (b. 1795) March 26 – Emilie Hammarskjöld, Swedish-born American musician (b. 1821) March 27 William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, English politician (b. 1768) Charles III, Duke of Parma (b. 1823) April 11 – Karl Adolph von Basedow,