with John Wilkes Booth, assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson (d. 1865) June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress (d. 1868) June 23 – Fanny Eaton, Jamaican-born artists model and domestic worker (d. 1924) June 24 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist (d. 1902) June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American author, journalist (d. 1896) July–December July 6 – Sir George White, British field marshal (d. 1912) July 7 – Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897) July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880) July 19 – Justo Rufino Barrios, 9th President of Guatemala (d. 1885) July 27 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907) July 30 – Edmund Francis Dunne, American politician, jurist, and Catholic orator (d. 1904) July 31 – Henri Brisson, 2-time prime minister of France (d. 1912) August 2 – Elisha Gray, American inventor, businessman (d. 1901) August 6 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (d. 1900) August 19 – Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, pioneer of Australian rules football (d. 1880) August 27 – Thomas Burberry, English businessman, inventor (d. 1926) September 1 – Raphael Kalinowski, Polish Discalced Carmelite friar, saint (d. 1907) October 7 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913) October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) October 16 – William R. Shafter, American general (d. 1906) October 31 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) November 6 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist (d. 1909) November 17 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero, Governor of Ohio (d. 1915) November 19 – Matilda Carse, Irish-born American businesswoman, social reformer (d. 1917) November 21 – Rose Eytinge, American actress (d. 1911) November 25 Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist, philanthropist (d. 1919) Arthur Sewall, American politician, industrialist (d. 1900) November 29 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908) November 30 – Mark Twain, American author, humorist (d. 1910) December 4 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902) December 6 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (d. 1910) December 17 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist (d. 1910) December 18 – Lyman Abbott, American clergyman, author (d. 1922) December 28 – Sir Archibald Geikie, Scottish geologist (d. 1924) Deaths January–June January 1 – Mátyás Godina, Slovene Lutheran pastor, writer, and teacher (b. 1768) February 8 – Guillaume Dupuytren, French anatomist, military surgeon (b. 1777) February 15 Nathan Dane, American politician (b. 1752) Henry Hunt, British politician