Japan (d. 1867) August 12 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author, theosophist (d. 1891) August 16 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of modern football (d. 1924) August 20 – Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (d. 1914) August 28 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889) September 3 – States Rights Gist, Confederate Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1864) September 8 – Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist (d. 1910) September 18 – Siegfried Marcus, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1898) September 20 – Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917) September 29 – John Schofield, American general (d. 1906) October 6 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916) October 14 – Samuel W. Johnson, English railway mechanical engineer (d. 1912) October 16 – Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist (d. 1910) October 18 – Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888) October 29 – Othniel Charles Marsh, American paleontologist (d. 1899) October 31 Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist, physiologist, anthropologist and fiction writer (d. 1910) Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (d. 1899) November 1 – Harry Atkinson, 10th Premier of New Zealand (d. 1892) November 5 – Anna Leonowens, Anglo-Indian educator (Anna of The King and I) (d. 1915) November 7 – Mélanie Calvat, French Roman Catholic nun, Marian Visionary, canonized (d. 1904) November 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881) December 1 – Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1853) December 14 – Arsenio Martínez Campos, Spanish general, revolutionary and prime minister (d. 1900) December 19 – Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian aliʻi (d. 1884) Date unknown Jacob W. Davis, (b. Jacob Youphes), Latvian-born American tailor, inventor of jeans (d. 1908) Sotirios Sotiropoulos, Greek economist, politician (d. 1898) Eugenia Kisimova, Bulgarian feminist, philanthropist, women's rights activist (d. 1885) Deaths January–June January 8 – Franz Krommer, Czech composer (b. 1759) January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781) February 2 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (b. 1768) February 14 Vicente Guerrero, 2nd President of Mexico, Independence War hero (b. 1782) Marye of Yejju, Ethiopian Ras Sabagadis, Ethiopian warlord (b. c. 1770) February 17 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1785) March 9 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752) April 5 – Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral (b. 1763) April 20 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764) April