– Son Byong-hi, Korean independence activist (d. 1922) April 15 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929) April 22 – István Tisza, 2-time prime minister of Hungary (d. 1918) April 23 – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, British soldier, administrator (d. 1936) April 26 – Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Austro-Hungarian general and politician (d. 1921) May 5 – Peter Cooper Hewitt, American electrical engineer, inventor (d. 1921) May 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, story-writer, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, educationist, linguist, grammarian, and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate for the collection of poems Gitanjali. (d. 1941) May 11 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American scouter (d. 1947) May 14 – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (d. 1908) May 16 – Herman Webster Mudgett (alias H. H. Holmes), American serial killer (d. 1896) May 24 – Gerald Strickland, 4th prime minister of Malta, 23rd Governor of New South Wales, 15th Governor of Western Australia and 9th Governor of Tasmania (d. 1940) June 2 – Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States (d. 1943) June 19 – José Rizal, Filipino national hero (d. 1896) June 20 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947) June 22 – Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914) June 27 – Fanny Davies, Guernesiaise pianist (d. 1934) July–December July 7 – Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with the discovery of sex chromosomes (d. 1912) July 14 – Kate M. Gordon, American suffragette (d. 1932) July 18 – Kadambini Ganguly, first Indian female doctor (d. 1923) August 2 – Edith Cowan, Australian social reformer and politician (d. 1932) August 4 Henry Head, English neurologist (d. 1940) Daniel Edward Howard, 16th president of Liberia (d. 1935) August 6 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1948) August 7 – Spencer S. Wood, United States Navy rear admiral (d. 1940) August 10 – Almroth Wright, British bacteriologist, immunologist (d. 1947) September 2 – Henrietta Crosman, American stage, film actress (d. 1944) September 7 – Patriarch Ambrosius of Georgia (d. 1927) September 10 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor, ceramist (d. 1941) September 11 Juhani Aho, Finnish author, journalist (d. 1921) September 15 M. Visvesvaraya, Indian Civil Engineer, Erich von Falkenhayn, German general (d. 1922) September 23 Robert Bosch, German industrialist, engineer and inventor (d. 1942) Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet, novelist (d. 1907) September