3 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor, cinema pioneer, and film director (d. 1935) August 5 – Louis Wain, English artist (d. 1939) August 7 – Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917) August 10 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936) August 13 – Annie Oakley, American Wild West show performer (d. 1926) August 15 Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator (d. 1941) Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States (d. 1924) August 16 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (d. 1887) August 20 – Raymond Poincaré, French president (d. 1934) August 22 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (d. 1940) August 25 – George Fawcett, American actor (d. 1939) August 26 – Eudora Stone Bumstead, American poet and hymnwriter (d. 1892) September 1 – Mary E. C. Bancker, American author (d. 1921) September 5 – Andrew Volstead, American politician (d. 1947) September 6 – Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935) September 7 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses (aka Grandma Moses), American painter, centenarian (d. 1961) September 13 – John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948) September 16 – Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1934) October–December October 31 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927) November 1 – Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921) November 2 – Soapy Smith, American con artist and gangster (d. 1898) November 6 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1941) November 16 – John Henry Kirby, Texas legislator, American businessman (d. 1940) November 23 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1925) November 27 – Yui Mitsue, Japanese general (d. 1925) December 4 – Charles de Broqueville, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1940) December 7 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947) December 15 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1904) December 16 – Ion Dragalina, Romanian general (d. 1916) December 25 – Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher, social reformer (d. 1921) December 31 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (d. 1937) John T. Thompson, United States Army officer, inventor of the Tommy gun (d. 1940) Deaths January–June January 1 – Thomas Hobbes Scott, English clergyman (b. 1783) January 5 – John Neumann,