– Henry Tingle Wilde, British mariner, Chief Officer RMS Titanic (d. 1912) September 28 – David Unaipon, Aboriginal Australian preacher, author and inventor (d. 1967) October 4 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral (d. 1945) October 6 – Carl Gustaf Ekman, 2-time prime minister of Sweden (d. 1945) October 11 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946) October 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958) October 15 Wilhelm Miklas, 3rd President of Austria (d. 1956) Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States (d. 1961) October 27 – Emily Post, American etiquette expert (d. 1960) October 30 – Louisa Martindale, British physician, writer, magistrate and prison commissioner (d. 1966) November 1 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1946) November 4 – Barbu Știrbey, 30th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946) November 11 – Maude Adams, American stage actress (d. 1953) November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, surgeon and poet (d. 1918) December 3 – William Haselden, Spanish-born English cartoonist (d. 1953) December 7 – Johan Huizinga, Dutch cultural historian (d. 1945) December 8 – Mace Greenleaf, American actor (d. 1912) December 11 – René Bull, British illustrator, photographer (d. 1942) December 14 – John Smith Archibald, Canadian architect (d. 1934) December 16 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Imperial Russian Lieutenant General (d. 1947) December 21 – Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956) December 26 – Norman Angell, English politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1967) Deaths January–June January 7 – Big Jim Fisk, American financier (b. 1835) January 9 – Henry Halleck, American general (b. 1815) January 13 – William Scamp, English architect and engineer (b. 1801) January 21 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791) February 4 – John L. Burns, American veteran of the War of 1812, civilian combatant for the Union Army during the American Civil War. (b. 1793) March or April – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (b. 1803) March 8 – Priscilla Susan Bury, British botanist (b. 1799) March 11 – Emily Taylor, English schoolmistress (b. 1795) March 12 – Zeng Guofan (traditional Chinese: 曾國藩 ), Chinese official, military general and Confucian scholar (b. 1811) March 15 – Jonathan Letterman, American surgeon, "father" of battlefield medicine. (b. 1824) March 20 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer (b. 1790) April 1 Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805) Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (b. 1805) April