Entuzjastki society is founded in Poland. Sogo, a Japanese department store brand founded in Osaka, Japan, as predecessor part of Seven & I Retail Group. Births January–June January 7 – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902) January 8 – Hans von Bülow, German conductor, pianist and composer (d. 1894) January 21 – Liu Kunyi, Chinese general (d. 1902) January 23 – Gaston Alexandre Auguste, Marquis de Galliffet, French general (d. 1909) January 31 – James G. Blaine, 28th and 31st United States Secretary of State (d. 1893) February 3 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903) February 8 – Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876) February 16 – Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (d. 1902) March 15 – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914) March 26 – Dewitt Clinton Senter, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1898) May 5 – John Batterson Stetson, American hat maker (d. 1906) May 9 – Harriet Lane, Acting First Lady of the United States (d. 1903) May 10 – François-Marie Raoult, French chemist (d. 1901) May 14 – Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist, author (d. 1905) May 29 – Louise Michel, French anarchist (d. 1905) April 9 – Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer, pioneer of photographic studies of motion (d. 1904) April 21 – Clémence Royer, French anthropologist (d. 1902) June 1 – Martha Hooper Blackler Kalopothakes, American missionary, journalist, translator (d. 1871) June 5 – Carmine Crocco, Italian brigand (d. 1905) June 22 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, professor and composer (d. 1915) July–December July 8 – Frederick W. Seward, American politician (d. 1915) July 10 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903) July 20 – Clements Markham, English explorer (d. 1916) July 21 – John H. Lewis, American politician (d. 1929) July 22 – William Sooy Smith, American civil engineer and general (d. 1916) July 25 – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (d. 1926) August 18 – Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916) August 26 – Daniel Webster Jones, American Latter-day Saint pioneer (d. 1915) September 2 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911) September 8 – Frédéric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914) September 12 – William Sprague IV, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1915) September 15 – Porfirio Díaz, 29th President of Mexico (d. 1915) September 17 – Maria Theresia