June 1 – Abdyl Frashëri, Albanian politician (d.1892) June 10 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1912) June 17 – Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1931) June 21 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian author (d. 1908) July–December July - Baba Jaimal Singh, Founder of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (d. 1903) July 6 – Édouard Pottier, French admiral (d. 1903) July 8 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1937) July 17 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor of the Shay locomotive (d. 1916) July 18 – James Surtees Phillpotts, English author (d. 1930) July 28 – Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, Italo-Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician (d. 1905) July 31 – Ignacio Andrade, 37th President of Venezuela (d. 1925) August 4 – Walter Pater, English essayist, critic (d. 1894) August 8 – Nelson A. Miles, American general (d. 1925) August 15 – Antonín Petrof, Czech piano maker (d. 1915) September 2 – Henry George, American writer, politician, and political economist (d. 1897) September 7 – Patricio Montojo y Pasarón, Spanish admiral (d. 1917) September 10 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1914) September 12 – Mary H. Graves, American minister, literary editor, writer (d. 1908) October 2 – Oscar de Négrier, French general (d. 1913) October 9 Georges Leclanché, French electrical engineer, inventor (d. 1882) Winfield Scott Schley, American admiral (d. 1911) October 11 – Jeanne Merkus, Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier, and political activist (d. 1897) October 30 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist landscape painter (d. 1899) November 1 – Pál Luthár, Slovene writer in Hungary (d. 1919) November 12 – Frank Furness, American architect, soldier (d. 1912) November 18 – Emil Škoda, Czech engineer, industrialist (d. 1900) November 20 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882) November 30 – Catherine Amanda Coburn, American journalist, newspaper editor (d. 1913) December 5 – George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer (d. 1876) December 7 – Sir Redvers Buller, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1908) December 21 – Sherman Conant, American soldier and politician (d. 1890) Date unknown Avis Crocombe, English cook at Audley End House Deaths January–June January 24 – Michele Cachia, Maltese architect, military engineer (b. 1760) February 7 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799) February 8 – William Williams, English politician (b. 1774) February 10 – Pedro Romero, Spanish torero (b. 1754) February 12