– Carlota of Mexico, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927) June 9 – Jennie Casseday, American philanthropist (d. 1893) June 10 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920) June 13 – Augusta Lundin, Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919) June 21 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist, founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd. (d. 1913) July–December July 1 – Edward Clodd, English banker, writer and anthropologist (d. 1930) July 6 – Peter Conover Hains, major general in the United States Army, and veteran of the American Civil War, Spanish–American War, and First World War (d. 1921) August 4 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (d. 1902) September 12 – Mary Jane Patterson, the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree in 1862. (d. 1894) September 22 – D. M. Canright, American Seventh-day Adventist minister and author, later one of the church's severest critics (d. 1919) September 27 Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States Navy admiral, American geostrategist and historian (d. 1914) Thomas Nast, American caricaturist, cartoonist (d. 1902) October 9 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905) October 12 – Helena Modjeska, Polish stage actress (d. 1909) October 16 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900) November 7 – H. G. Haugan, Norwegian-born American railroad, banking executive (d. 1921) November 12 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917) November 14 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926) November 21 – Victoria, Princess Royal (d. 1901) November 29 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (d. 1920) December 17 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese general (d. 1908) date unknown earliest probable date – Crazy Horse (Tȟašúŋke Witkó), Chief of the Oglala Lakota (k. 1877) Deaths January–June January 6 – Fanny Burney, English novelist (b. 1752) January 22 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) February 13 – Nicolas Joseph Maison, French marshal, Minister of War (b. 1770) March 11 – George Wolf, American politician (b. 1777) March 17 – Lady Lucy Whitmore, English noblewoman and hymnwriter (b. 1792) April 12 – Franz Anton von Gerstner, Austrian railway engineer (b. 1796) April 25 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician, geometer, and physicist (b. 1781) May 1 – Joseph Williamson, builder of the Williamson Tunnels (b. 1769) May 6 Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, Russian aristocrat, priest (b. 1770) Francisco de Paula Santander, President of Colombia (b. 1792) May 7 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (b. 1774) May 13 – Leonard Gyllenhaal, Swedish military officer, entomologist