political leader (d. 1886) February 15 – George Johnstone Stoney, Anglo-Irish physicist (d. 1911) February 16 Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Danish chemist (d. 1909) Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886) Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902) March 3 – Joseph Wharton, American industrialist (d. 1909) March 4 John Buford, American general (d. 1863) Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863) March 24 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist (d. 1898) March 29 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist, politician (d. 1900) April 3 Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (d. 1900) Reginald Heber, English priest (b. 1783) April 6 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898) May 3 – King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872) May 4 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900) May 7 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906) May 8 – Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter (d. 1883) May 24 – Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin, Swiss international women's rights activist, pacifist (d. 1899) May 26 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer (d. 1875) May 28 – Benjamin Gratz Brown, American politician (d. 1885) June 24 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898) June 26 – Warren F. Daniell, American politician (d. 1913) June 30 – Ozra Amander Hadley, American politician (d. 1915) July–December July 4 Stephen Foster, American songwriter, poet (d. 1864) Green Clay Smith, American temperance movement leader (d. 1895) July 8 – Benjamin Grierson, American Civil War general (d. 1911) July 31 – William S. Clark, American chemist, 3rd President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (d. 1886) August 7 – August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (d. 1889) August 11 – Andrew Jackson Davis, American spiritualist (d. 1910) August 21 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist, professor (d. 1903) September 8 – Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1891) September 17 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866) October 8 – Emily Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910) November 24 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (d. 1890) November 27 – Jonathan Young, United States Navy commodore (d. 1885) December 3 – George B. McClellan, American general, politician (d. 1885) December 8 - John Brown, Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria (d. 1883) Date unknown Cetshwayo kaMpande,