1924) August 30 – Gheorghe Bengescu, Romanian diplomat and man of letters (d. 1922) September 4 – Lewis Howard Latimer, African-American inventor (d. 1928) September 8 – Viktor Meyer, German chemist (d. 1897) September 20 – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur, inventor of the hole punch and ringbinder (d. 1919) October–December October 3 – Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929) October 5 – Liborius Ritter von Frank, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1935) October 15 – Harmon Northrop Morse, American chemist (d. 1920) November 8 – Gottlob Frege, German logician (d. 1925) November 11 – Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral (d. 1909) November 12 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919) November 13 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922) November 14 – Sándor Wekerle, 3-time prime minister of Hungary (d. 1921) November 20 – James M. Spangler, American inventor (d. 1915) November 24 – Zhang Peilun, Chinese naval commander and government official (d. 1903) November 25 – Margaret Abigail Cleaves, American physician and writer (d. 1917) November 27 – Maximilian von Prittwitz, German general (d. 1917) November 29 – Paul Pau, French general (d. 1932) December 6 – Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (d. 1925) December 17 – William Wynn Westcott, British freemason (d. 1925) Date unknown Alexander Bedward, Jamaican preacher (d. 1930) Alice Williams Brotherton, American author (d. 1930) Maryana Marrash, Syrian writer, salonist (d. 1919) Mary Thomas (labor leader), (d. 1905) Mírzá Mihdí, youngest child of Baháʼí founder Baháʼu'lláh (d. 1870) Viktor Sakharov, Russian general (d. 1905) Deaths January–June January 9 – Caroline Herschel, German astronomer (b. 1750) January 17 – Petrobey Mavromichalis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1765) January 19 – Isaac D'Israeli, English author (b. 1766) January 20 – Christian VIII, King of Denmark (b. 1786) February 15 – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771) February 22 – Wilhelmine Reichard, first German woman balloonist (b. 1788) February 23 – John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, son of John Adams and Abigail Adams (b. 1767) March 29 – John Jacob Astor, American businessman (b. 1763) April 8 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797) May 24 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797) June 23 – Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (b. 1776) June 27 – Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris (b. 1793) July–December July 4 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer, diplomat (b. 1768) July 9 – Jaime