– Wilson Barrett, English actor (d. 1904) February 26 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman, later showman (d. 1917) March 4 – Franklin J. Drake, American admiral (d. 1929) March 6 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist (d. 1909) March 9 – Ōdera Yasuzumi, Japanese general (d. 1895) March 24 – Karl von Bülow, German field marshal (d. 1921) April 4 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870) May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English inventor, studio potter (d. 1920) May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) May 20 – Alexander von Kluck, German general (d. 1934) May 22 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican teacher, poet and activist (d. 1908) May 25 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923) May 29 – Winfield Scott Edgerly, United States Brigadier General (d. 1927) June 11 – William Louis Marshall, American general, engineer (d. 1920) June 13 – Rose Cleveland, de facto First Lady of the United States (d. 1918) June 27 – Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader (d. 1891) July–December July 11 – Gertrude Abbott (Mother Abbott), founder of the former St Margaret's Hospital in Sydney, Australia (d. 1934) July 17 – Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (d. 1866) July 26 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880) July 29 – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (d. 1921) August 8 – William White Miller, Irish Canadian businessman (d. 1912) August 16 – Oskar Victorovich Stark, Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1928) August 18 – Robley D. Evans, American admiral (d. 1912) August 23 – Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923) September 7 – John Porter Merrell, American admiral (d. 1916) September 16 – Anna Kingsford, British spiritual writer, doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian (d. 1888) September 25 Watson Heston, American cartoonist (d. 1905) Wladimir Köppen, Russian-German geographer, climatologist (d. 1940) October 6 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur, engineer (d. 1914) November 25 – Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911) December 2 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, 29th Prime Minister of France (d. 1904) December 17 – Max von Hausen, German general (d. 1922) December 21 – Julia Lermontova, Russian chemist (d. 1919) Date unknown Jeanne Schmahl, British-born French feminist (d. 1915) Deaths January–June February 21 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800) February 27 – María Trinidad Sánchez, heroine