May 30 – Frederick Dent Grant, U.S. soldier, statesman (d. 1912) June 2 Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent, British businessman (d. 1931) Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, English physiologist, pioneer in endocrinology (d. 1935) June 5 – Pat Garrett, American bartender and sheriff (d. 1908) June 6 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918) June 15 – Charles Hazelius Sternberg, American fossil collector, amateur paleontologist (d. 1943) June 21 – Daniel Carter Beard, American scouting pioneer (d. 1941) June 22 – Ignaz Goldziher, Hungarian orientalist (d. 1921) June 24 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal, statesman (d. 1916) June 27 Lafcadio Hearn, Greco-Japanese author (d. 1904) Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1921) June 30 – Paul von Plehwe, Russian general (d. 1916) July–August July 2 – Robert Ridgway, American ornithologist (d. 1929) July 11 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938) July 15 – Frances Xavier Cabrini, American saint (d. 1917) July 31 Robert Love Taylor, American congressman, senator and Governor from Tennessee (d. 1912) Robert Planquette, French composer of stage musicals (d. 1903) August 5 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (d. 1893) August 9 – Johann Büttikofer, Swiss zoologist (d. 1927) August 10 – Ella M. S. Marble, American physician (d. 1929) August 25 – Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1935) August 30 Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist (d. 1896) Bernardo Reyes, Mexican general (d. 1913) September–October September 4 – Luigi Cadorna, Italian general (d. 1928) September 5 – Eugen Goldstein, German physicist (d. 1930) September 8 – Paul Gerson Unna, German dermatologist (d. 1929) September 20 – Ōshima Yoshimasa, Japanese general (d. 1926) October 1 – David R. Francis, American politician (d. 1927) October 8 – Henry Louis Le Châtelier, French chemist (d. 1936) October 18 – Ferdinand von Quast, German general (d. 1939) November–December November 2 – Antonio Jacobsen, Danish-born American maritime artist (d. 1921) November 11 – Silva Porto, Portuguese painter (d. 1893) November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894) November 15 – Victor Laloux, French architect (d. 1937) November 24 – László Lukács, 17th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1932) December 22 – Victoriano Huerta, 35th President of Mexico (d. 1916) Date unknown Abdul Wahid Bengali, Muslim theologian and teacher (d. 1905) Mikael of Wollo, Ethiopian army commander and Ras of Wollo (d. 1918) Deaths January–March January 17 –