Belgian naturalist (d. 1937) October 25 – Take Ionescu, 29th prime minister of Romania (d. 1922) October 27 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919) Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936) November 10 – Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line, German prince (d. 1928) November 20 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) November 23 – Albert Ranft, Swedish theatre director, actor (d. 1938) November 26 – Katharine Drexel, American Roman Catholic saint (d. 1955) November 30 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937) December 18 – Kata Dalström, Swedish politician (d. 1923) December 19 – Adolf Schiel, German-born officer in Boer armed forces (d. 1903) December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924) December 25 – Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (d. 1936) December 27 – Juan Luis Sanfuentes, 16th president of Chile (d. 1930) Deaths January–June January 4 – Amelia Griffiths, English phycologist (b. 1768) January 5 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766) January 8 – Caroline Cornwallis, English writer (b. 1786) January 9 – Anson Jones, 4th and last President of the Republic of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798) February 21 – John K. Kane, American politician and jurist (b. 1795) February 23 – Vicente Ramón Roca, 3rd President of Ecuador (b. 1792) March 4 – Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, American naval officer (b. 1794) March 13 – Georgios Kountouriotis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1782) April 7 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer (b. 1781) May 11 – Joseph Gensoul, French surgeon (b. 1797) May 21 – José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st president of Peru and 2nd president of North Peru (b. 1783) June 3 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834) June 18 – Rani of Jhansi, Indian queen of Jhansi and independence activist (b. 1828) June 28 Jane Marcet, British science writer (b. 1769) Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (b. 1786) July–December August 14 – Tokugawa Iesada, 13th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1824) August 31 – Chief Oshkosh, Menominee chief (b. 1795) September 9 – Thomas Assheton Smith II, English politician, cricketer (b. 1776) September 17 – Dred Scott, African-American slave (b. c. 1795) November 3 – Harriet Taylor Mill, British philosopher, women's rights advocate (b. 1807) November 12 – Aloys II,