Martha Waldron Janes, American minister, suffragist, columnist (d. unknown) June 10 – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891) June 12 – Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal, Haitian politician, 12th President of Haiti (d. 1905) June 17 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist, physicist (d. 1919) July–December July 6 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867) July 11 – Charilaos Trikoupis, 7-time Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896) July 26 – Joseph P. Fyffe, American admiral (d. 1896) August 2 – Henry Steel Olcott, American officer (d. 1907) August 8 – George, King of Saxony (d. 1904) August 20 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist and inventor (d. 1913) October 1 – Caroline Harrison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1892) October 2 – Sir Edward Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917) October 3 – Richard Meade, Lord Gilford, British admiral (d. 1907) October 4 – Thorborg Rappe, Swedish social reformer (d. 1902) October 10 – Joe Cain, American parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1904) October 23 Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, fourth son and seventh child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1909) Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg, Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of Finland (d. 1873) October 29 – Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian-born philanthropist, lay hermit, sainted (d. 1869) November 1 – Gyula Szapáry, Hungarian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1905) November 7 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian, diplomat and co-founder of Cornell University (d. 1918) November 12 – Nancy Edberg, Swedish pioneer of women's swimming (d. 1892) November 18 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish geologist and explorer (d. 1901) November 26 – Mary Edwards Walker, American physician (d. 1919) November 28 – Sir Leslie Stephen, English writer, critic (d. 1904) November 29 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (d. 1888) December 6 – Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (d. 1914) December 8 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910) December 13 – Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian abolitionist (d. 1897) December 14 – Ana Betancourt, Cuban national heroine (d. 1901) December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (d. 1923) December 21 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906) Date unknown Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (d. 1907) Deaths January–June January 26 – Alexander Cochrane, British admiral (b. 1758) January 27 – Andrew Bell, Scottish