– Austen Chamberlain, English politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937) November 8 – Eero Järnefelt, Finnish realist painter (d. 1937) November 11 – Paul Signac, French Neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1935) November 14 – Leo Baekeland Belgian-born American chemist (d. 1944) November 20 – Zeffie Tilbury, English stage, film actress (daughter of Lydia Thompson) (d. 1950) November 23 – János Hadik, 19th prime minister of Hungary (d. 1933) November 24 – Leberecht Maass, German admiral (d. 1914) November 28 – Eremia Grigorescu, Romanian general (d. 1919) November 30 – Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (d. 1897) December 1 Qasim Amin, Egyptian writer (d. 1908) Black Elk/ Heȟáka Sápa', Oglala Teton Lakota (Western Sioux) medicine/holy man (d. 1950) December 5 – Paul Painlevé, mathematician and 2-time prime minister of France (d. 1933) December 7 Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952) Richard Warren Sears, American businessman (d. 1914) Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945) December 8 – Albert Abrams, American doctor (d. 1924) December 11 Georg Bruchmüller, German artillery officer (d. 1948) Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (d. 1941) December 12 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944) Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, British India politician, educationist (d. 1937) December 13 – Harry Todd, American actor (d. 1935) December 14 – Kenneth Balfour, British Conservative Party politician (d. 1936) December 16 – George Santayana, Spanish-born philosopher, poet, essayist and novelist (d. 1952) December 18 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914) Date unknown Fanny Huntington Runnells Poole, American book reviewer (d. 1940) Kate Tyrrell, Irish sailor, shipping company owner, captain of the Denbighshire Lass (d. 1921) Ibrahim Ujani, Bengali qari and teacher (d. 1943) Deaths January–June January 1 – William B. Renshaw, United States Navy officer (killed in action) (b. 1816) February 7 – William Farquharson Burnett, British commodore (drowned) (b. 1815) February 10 – Emma Catherine Embury, American author (b. 1806) April 1 – Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician (b. 1796) April 10 – Giovanni Battista Amici, Italian astronomer, microscopist and botanist (b. 1786) April 21 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (b. 1782) May 7 – Earl Van Dorn, American Confederate general (b. 1820) May 10 – Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824) June 7 – Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (b. 1790) June 9 – Dost Mohammad Khan, Emir of Kabul, King of Kandahar (b. 1793) June 24 – Sir George Elliot, British