American statesman, diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937) February 25 – Sir George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918) March 3 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918) March 4 – Henry Clay Taylor, American admiral (d. 1904) March 10 – Emperor Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894) March 20 – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 18th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1915) March 27 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923) April 4 – František Plesnivý, Austro-Hungarian architect (d. 1918) April 5 – Jules Cambon, French diplomat (d. 1935) April 22 – Carlo Caneva, Italian general (d. 1922) April 24 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) May 4 – William Kingdon Clifford, English mathematician, philosopher (d. 1879) May 9 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer, inventor (d. 1913) May 12 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924) May 14 – Charles J. Train, American admiral (d. 1906) May 15 – Élie Metchnikoff, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916) May 17 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902) May 25 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss-born artist (d. 1917) May 30 – King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890) May 31 – R. E. B. Crompton, British electrical engineer, industrialist and inventor (d. 1940) June 7 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer (d. 1930) June 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922) June 22 – Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906) July–December July 4 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (d. 1905) July 19 – Horatio Nelson Young, American naval hero (d. 1913) August 9 – André Bessette, Canadian religious leader and saint (d. 1937) August 10 – Abai Qunanbaiuly, Kazakh poet (d. 1904) August 16 Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921) Jacinta Parejo, First Lady of Venezuela (d. 1914) August 19 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (d. 1934) August 20 – Albert Chmielowski, Polish painter, Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (d. 1916) August 21 – William Healey Dall, American naturalist, biologist and explorer (d. 1927) August 25 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886) September 1 – Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, British field marshal (d. 1932) September 9 – Warner B. Bayley, United