the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932) May 15 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (d. 1911) May 19 – John Jacob Abel, American pharmacologist (d. 1938) May 24 – Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American stage actor (d. 1907) May 27 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (d. 1928) May 28 Annie Maria Barnes, American author of children's literature (unknown year of death) Robert C. Hilliard, American stage actor (d. 1927) May 31 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939) June 2 Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen, Norwegian admiral and industry leader (d. 1943) Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934) Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) June 8 – Lawrence Marston, American actor, playwright and film director (d. 1939) June 10 – Caroline Louise Dudley (later Mrs. Leslie Carter), American stage actress (d. 1937) June 12 – Kate Lester, English stage & silent screen actress (d. 1924) June 16 – Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1935) June 20 – Mary Gage Day, American physician (d. 1935) June 30 – Friedrich von Ingenohl, German admiral (d. 1933) July–September July 1 – Martha Hughes Cannon, American politician (d. 1932) July 5 – Clara Zetkin, German-born Marxist theorist, activist and women's rights advocate (d. 1933) July 11 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist (Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales) (d. 1911) July 14 – Vittorio Ranuzzi de' Bianchi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1927) July 22 – Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi, Indian Islamic scholar (d. 1911) July 23 – Carl Meinhof, German linguist (d. 1944) July 24 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943) Juan Vicente Gómez, President of Venezuela (d. 1935) July 25 – Nat Goodwin, American actor (d. 1919) July 28 – Ballington Booth, British-born American Salvation Army officer, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940) July 30 Lucy Bacon, California Impressionist painter (d. 1932) Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929) August 8 – Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist, paleontologist and eugenist (d. 1935) August 14 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922) August 15 – Albert Ballin, German shipping magnate, owner of the Hamburg America Line (d. 1918) August 16 – Ioan Popovici, Romanian general (d. 1956) August 18 – Sergei Sheydeman, Russian general (d. 1922) August 27 – Oskar von Hutier, German general (d. 1934) September 5 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist, inventor (d. 1935) September 8 – Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936) September 13 – Milton S.