Booth (d. 1903) January 17 – Douglas Hyde, 1st President of Ireland (d. 1949) January 21 – Karl Staaff, Swedish lawyer, politician, 11th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915) January 28 – W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit, academic (d. 1910) January 29 William Jacob Baer, American painter (d. 1941) Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904) February 11 – Rachilde, French author (d. 1953) February 14 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954) February 18 – Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (d. 1920) February 25 – Sir William Ashley, English economic historian (d. 1927) February 28 – Carl Georg Barth, American mathematician, mechanical engineer (d. 1939) February 29 – Herman Hollerith, American businessman, inventor (d. 1929) March 2 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States (d. 1961) March 5 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (d. 1922) March 13 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903) March 19 – William Jennings Bryan, American politician (d. 1925) March 23 – Horatio Bottomley, British politician and businessman (d. 1933) April–June April 2 – Zheng Xiaoxu, Chinese statesman, diplomat and calligrapher, first Prime Minister of Manchukuo (d. 1938) April 7 – Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist, founder of the Kellogg Company (d. 1951) May 2 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of modern political Zionism (d. 1904) May 7 – Tom Norman, English freak showman (d. 1930) May 9 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937) May 15 – Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the United States (d. 1914) May 20 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) May 21 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1927) May 25 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944) May 27 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941) May 29 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909) June 20 – Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937) June 25 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956) July–September July 3 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist (d. 1935) July 7 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911) July 16 – Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist, creator of Ido and Novial languages (d.1943) July 19 – Lizzie Borden, American murder suspect (d. 1927) July 31 – Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet, British admiral (d. 1917) August 1 – Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (d. 1918) August