30 Morgan Robertson, American author (d. 1915) William Wrigley Jr., American chewing gum industrialist (d. 1932) October 4 – Frederic Remington, American cowboy artist, sculptor (d. 1909) October 6 – Myra Belle Martin, American financier (unknown year of death) October 10 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930) October 16 – J. B. Bury, British historian (d. 1927) October 24 – Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (d. 1918) October 30 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929) November 4 – Dimitrios Ioannou, Greek general (d. 1926) November 6 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939) November 14 – Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian (d. 1932) November 16 – Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (d. 1925) November 23 – Clara H. Hazelrigg, American author, educator and reformer (d. 1937) November 24 – August Bier, German surgeon (d. 1949) December 4 Lillian Russell, American singer, vaudeville star (d. 1922) Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922) December 5 – Armando Diaz, Italian general, Marshal of Italy (d. 1928) December 7 – Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general (d. 1931) December 8 Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944) Georges Méliès, French film director (d. 1938) December 15 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1944) December 16 – Antonio de La Gándara, French painter (d. 1917) December 20 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926) December 29 – Kurt Hensel, German mathematician (d. 1941) Date unknown Dixie Haygood, American magician (d. 1915) Kallirhoe Parren, founder of the Greek women's movement (d. 1940) Victoire Jean-Baptiste, Haitian politician (d. 1923) Abba Jifar II, king of the Gibe Kingdom of Jimma (d. 1932) Deaths January–June January 2 – King Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795) January 17 – Lola Montez, Irish-born dancer, mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1821) January 19 – Albert Niemann, German chemist (b. 1834) February 5 – Pierre Bosquet, French general, Marshal of France (b. 1810) February 26 – Wojciech Chrzanowski, Polish general (b. 1793) March 10 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814) March 16 – Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, mother of Queen Victoria (b. 1786) April 8 – Elisha Otis, American engineer, Founder of Otis (b. 1811) April 15 – Isaiah Stillman, U.S. Army Major in the Black Hawk War (b. 1793) May 29 – Joachim Lelewel, Polish nationalist historian (b. 1786) June