(d. 1955) August 12 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954) August 14 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian novelist, poet and religious thinker (d. 1941) September 1 James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933) Thomas F. Woodlock, editor of The Wall Street Journal and Interstate Commerce Commission commissioner (d. 1945) September 7 – Tristan Bernard, French writer (d. 1947) September 10 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (d. 1930) September 16 – Joe Vila, American sportswriter (d. 1934) September 21 Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936) H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946) September 22 – Witmer Stone, American ornithologist and botanist (d. 1939) September 27 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932) September 25 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1945) October–December October 6 Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (d. 1932) Nina Bang, Danish politician (d. 1928) October 12 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937) October 29 – Antonio Luna, Filipino general (d. 1899) November 3 – Paul Lincke, German composer (d. 1946) November 11 – Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (d. 1956) November 12 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary (d. 1925) November 16 – Cornelia Sorabji, Indian-born lawyer (d. 1954) November 28 Sy Sanborn, American sportswriter (d. 1934) David Warfield, American stage actor (d. 1951) November 30 Robert Broom, Scottish paleontologist (d. 1951) Andrey Lyapchev, 22nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1933) December 2 – Constantin Cristescu, Romanian general (d. 1923) December 11 - Ada Baker, Australian soprano, singing teacher and vaudeville star (d. 1949) December 12 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) December 16 (December 4 O.S.) – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born painter (d. 1944) December 17 – Kazys Grinius, 5th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 1950) December 29 – Marie Cahill, American singer and actress (d. 1933) Date unknown William M. Dalton, American Old West outlaw (d. 1894) Deaths January–June January (date unknown) – Thomas Baldwin Marsh, American religious leader (b. 1799) January 16 – Phineas Quimby, American physician (b. 1802) January 19 – Harriet Ludlow Clarke, British artist January 23 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785) January 31 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator and professor of Oriental languages (b. 1788) February 25 – Sarah Ann Gill, Barbadian national heroine