painter, author (d. 1921) March 8 Bramwell Booth, English Salvation Army general (d. 1929) Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931) March 9 Eddie Foy Sr., American vaudevillian (d. 1928) Jules-Albert de Dion, French automobile pioneer (d. 1946) March 16 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (k. 1879) March 20 Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941) Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor and efficiency expert (d. 1915) March 26 – William Massey, Irish-born 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1925) April–June April 4 – Washington Irving Chambers, American naval officer (d. 1934) April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915) April 6 – Maurice Sarrail, French general (d. 1929) April 12 – Martin Conway, British art critic, mountaineer (d. 1937) April 14 – Albert W. Grant, American admiral (d. 1930) April 18 – Hammerton Killick, Haitian admiral (d. 1902) April 23 – Granville Woods, African-American inventor (d. 1910) April 24 – Philippe Pétain, French soldier, statesman (d. 1951) April 26 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930) April 27 – Tongzhi Emperor of China (d. 1875) May 6 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist (d. 1939) Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (d. 1920) May 8 – Pedro Lascuráin, 34th President of Mexico (d. 1952) May 15 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (The Wizard of Oz) (d. 1919) May 18 – Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi, Italian nobleman, general and politician (d. 1941) May 21 – José Batlle y Ordóñez, Twice President of Uruguay (d. 1929) May 25 Ján Bahýľ, Slovak engineer, inventor (d. 1916) Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942) June 14 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (d. 1922) June 22 – H. Rider Haggard, English novelist (d. 1925) June 29 – Maria Cederschiöld, Swedish journalist (d. 1935) July–September July 7 – Georg von der Marwitz, German general (d. 1929) July 10 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor (d. 1943) July 11 – Georgiana Drew, American stage actress, married Maurice Barrymore in 1876 (d. 1893) July 23 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian political activist (d. 1920) July 24 – Franklin Ware Mann, American inventor (d. 1916) July 26 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950) July 27 - Nathan Francis Mossell, physician, 1st African American graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and founder of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School (d.