– Martha Place, American murderer, first woman executed in the electric chair (d. 1899) September 21 – Maurice Barrymore, British-American stage actor, playwright (d. 1905) September 23 – Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer (d. 1924) October 10 – Mary Baker McQuesten, Canadian letter writer and missionary (d. 1934) October 26 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917) October 28 – Oskar Enkvist, Russian admiral (d. 1912) October 31 – Marie Louise Andrews, American author and editor (d. 1891) November 24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American playwright, author (d. 1924) November 29 – Sir Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, inventor (d. 1945) December 5 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (d. 1922) December 6 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945) December 7 – Saionji Kinmochi, Japanese prince and prime minister (d. 1940) December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (d. 1920) December 18 – Laura M. Johns, American suffragist, journalist (d. 1935) December 19 – Henry Clay Frick, American industrialist, art collector (d. 1919) December 20 John W. Kern, American politician (d. 1917) Raymond P. Rodgers, American admiral (d. 1925) December 25 – Nogi Maresuke, Japanese general (d. 1912) Date unknown Muhammad Abduh, Islamic reformer (d. 1905) Elisabeth Cavazza, American author, journalist, and music critic (d. 1926) Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge, American philanthropist, author and reformer (d. 1902) Ellen Eglin, American inventor Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian (d. 1930) Aleksandr Loran, Russian inventor (d. 1911) Euphemia Wilson Pitblado, American activist, social reformer, and writer (d. 1928) Deaths January–June January 14 – Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, French admiral (b. 1772) January 18 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752) January 30 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773) February 8 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800) February 28 – Regina von Siebold, German physician, obstetrician (b. 1771) March 14 – King Willem II of the Netherlands (b. 1792) March 15 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian Catholic cardinal, linguist (b. 1774) March 18 – Antonin Moine, French sculptor (b. 1796) March 20 – James Justinian Morier, British diplomat, author (b. 1780) March 24 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (b. 1780) April 11 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman, priest (b. 1777) May 11 Juliette Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777) Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (b. 1810) May 22 – Maria Edgeworth, Irish novelist (b. 1767) May 25 – Benjamin D'Urban, British general,