Longstreet, American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman (d. 1962) April 28 – Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (d. 1933) April 29 William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (d. 1951) Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Polish missionary sister (d. 1922) May 18 – Ehrhard Schmidt, German admiral (d. 1946) May 21 – Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954) May 24 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938) May 29 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921) June 2 – Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor (d. 1942) June 13 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1942) June 17 – Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934) July–September July 1 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892) July 4 – Hugo Winckler, German archaeologist, historian who uncovered the capital of the Hittite Empire (Hattusa) (d. 1913) July 6 – Reginald McKenna, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (1915-1916) (d. 1943) July 15 – Gonzalo Córdova, 21st president of Ecuador (d. 1928) July 21 – C. Aubrey Smith, English actor (d. 1948) July 25 – Alison Skipworth, English actress (d. 1952) July 30 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer, industrialist (d. 1947) August 1 – Gaston Doumergue, President of France during the Third Republic (d. 1937) August 3 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (d. 1922) August 17 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (d. 1924) August 23 – Princess Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, American author (d. 1945) August 24 – Carrie Ashton Johnson, American editor, author (d. 1949) August 24 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian writer, African explorer, East Congo commissioner (d. 1918) September 1 – João Pinheiro Chagas, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1925) September 13 Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935) Franz von Hipper, German admiral (d. 1932) September 21 – John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915) September 22 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician, bacteriologist (d. 1943) G. R. S. Mead, British writer (d. 1933) September 25 – S. Isadore Miner, American columnist writing as "Pauline Periwinkle" (d. 1916) September 28 – King Carlos I of Portugal (d. 1908) September 30 – Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (d. 1928) October–December October 4 – Samuel P. Bush, American businessman and industrialist (d. 1948) October 7 – Clarence Stewart Williams, American admiral (d. 1951) October 11 Lionel Cripps, Rhodesian politician (d. 1950) Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (d. 1912) October 16