19th President of Ecuador (d. 1951) October–December October 6 – Frank Seiberling, American inventor, co-founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (d. 1955) October 9 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer, subject of the Dreyfus affair (d. 1935) October 12 – Diana Abgar, Armenian diplomat (d. 1937) October 18 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941) October 20 – John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist and educator (d. 1952) November 10 – Gustav Globočnik Edler von Vojka, Austro-Hungarian nobleman and field marshal (d. 1946) November 14 – Alexander Samsonov, Russian general (d. 1914) November 15 Jean César Graziani, French general (d. 1932) Christopher Hornsrud, 11th prime minister of Norway (d. 1960) November 19 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935) November 22 – Fusajiro Yamauchi, Japanese founder of Nintendo (d. 1940) November 24 – Cass Gilbert, American architect (Woolworth Building, United States Supreme Court building) (d. 1934) November 27 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (d. 1886) November 29 – Jesse Pomeroy, youngest convicted murderer in Massachusetts (d. 1932) December 2 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891) December 5 – John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935) December 15 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (d. 1917) December 17 – Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927) December 24 – Olive E. Dana, American author (unknown year of death) December 29 – Venustiano Carranza, 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920) Date unknown Vittorio Alinari, Italian photographer (d. 1932) Stanisław Roman Lewandowski, Polish sculptor (d. 1940) Margaret Manton Merrill, English-American journalist and writer (d. 1893) Deaths January–June January 21 – Henry Hallam, English historian (b. 1777) January 28 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782) February 13 – Eliza Acton, English poet, cookery writer (b. 1799) February 27 – Philip Barton Key, U.S. District Attorney (b. 1818) April 8 – Sir Joseph Thackwell, British army general (b. 1781) April 16 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805) May 6 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and geographer (b. 1769) May 13 – Bakht Khan, commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (b. 1797) June 11 – Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian diplomat (b. 1773) June 13 – Angélique Brûlon, French soldier, first female Knight of the French Legion of Honour (b. 1772) June 15 – Mark Newman,