Japanese admiral (d. 1921) September 30 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in England (d. 1924) October–December October 2 – William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) October 9 – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) October 11 - Mary Isabella Macleod, North American pioneer (d. 1933) October 16 – Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913) October 17 – George Egerton, British admiral (d. 1940) November 1 – Eugene W. Chafin, American politician (d. 1920) November 3 – Prince Mutsuhito of Japan, the future Emperor Meiji (d. 1912) November 6 – Béni Grosschmid, Hungarian jurist and civil law scholar (d. 1938) November 7 – Johan Ramstedt, 9th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1935) November 8 – Eva Kinney Griffith, American activist and writer (d. 1918) November 11 – Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925) November 22 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924) November 26 – Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, 16th and 22nd Prime Minister of Japan, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (d. 1933) December 10 – Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (d. 1937) December 15 Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908) Reginald F. Nicholson, United States Navy admiral (d. 1939) December 19 – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931) December 21 – George Callaghan, British admiral (d. 1920) Date unknown Emma Eliza Bower, American physician, club-woman, and newspaperwoman (d. 1937) Liu Buchan, Chinese admiral (d. 1895) Gef, supposed Indian-born Manx talking mongoose (presumed hoax of 1930s) Deaths January–June January 1 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1777) January 6 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind, inventor of braille (b. 1809) January 27 – Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer and lay preacher (b. 1777) February 10 – Samuel Prout, English watercolour painter (b. 1783) March 4 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809) March 22 – Auguste de Marmont, French general, nobleman and marshal (b. 1774) April 17 – Étienne Maurice Gérard, French general, statesman and marshal, 11th Prime Minister of France (b. 1773) May 3 – Sara Coleridge, British author and translator (b. 1802) May 15 – Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1775) June 7 – José Joaquín Estudillo, second Mexican alcalde of Yerba Buena (b. 1800) June 21 – Friedrich Fröbel,