User:Hebrides/Sandbox6

Births

January

• January 1

Joe Warbrick born 1 January

Ethel Brilliana Tweedie born 1 January

• • Andrew Blain Baird, Scottish Aviator (d. 1951)
  • John Barneson, American businessman (d. 1941)
  • Heinrich Braun, German surgeon (d. 1934)
  • Georgina Pope, Canadian nurse (d. 1938)
  • George Smailes, Australian politician, clergyman (d. 1934)
  • Charley Turner, African American boxer (d. 1913)
  • Ethel Brilliana Tweedie, Travel writer (d. 1940)
  • Joe Warbrick, New Zealand rugby union player and administrator (d. 1903)
  • Edward Lewis Young, American banker (d. 1940)
• January 2
  • Safi Lakhnavi, Urdu writer (d. 1950)
  • Emil Tamsen, South African philatelist (d. 1957)
• January 3

Matthew Nathan born 3 January

• • Charles L. Burrill, American politician (d. 1931)
  • Nehemiah Samuel Libowitz, American rabbi (d. 1939)
  • Max Littmann, German architect (d. 1931)
  • James W. Maney, American businessman (d. 1945)
  • Matthew Nathan (d. 1939)
  • William Peck, Scottish astronomer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1925)
  • Francis M. Taitt, American Episcopal clergyman (d. 1943)
• January 4
  • Louis F. Hart, American politician (d. 1929)
  • Edith Swepstone, British composer (d. 1930)
• January 5

Albert Peyronnet born 5 January

• • James Bretherton, English cricketer (d. 1926)
  • John Carew (d. 1927)
  • Daniel A. Grout, school teacher and principal and school board administrator (d. 1929)
  • Albert Peyronnet, French politician, senator from 1912 to 1945, Minister of Labor in 1922–24 (d. 1958)
  • Alfred Price, English cricketer who played for Lancashire and Nottinghamshire (d. 1942)
  • Lorenzo Quelch, British trade unionist and politician (d. 1937)
• January 6
  • William Hardie, British classical scholar (d. 1916)
  • August Oetker, German inventor of baking powder (d. 1918)
  • Bartlett Richards, American pastor (d. 1911)
• January 7

Helen MacMurchy born 7 January

• • John Auld, Scottish footballer (d. 1932)
  • Arthur Brown, English footballer (d. 1930)
  • Walter von Eberhardt, Prussian general (d. 1944)
  • Henry Hanlon, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1937)
  • Reinhold Hedberg, Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician (d. 1922)
  • Helen MacMurchy, Canadian doctor and author (d. 1953)
  • Herbert Mercer, British army officer and member of parliament (d. 1944)
• January 8

Charles Eliot (diplomat) born 8 January

• • Jim Donahue, Major League Baseball player (d. 1935)
  • Frank Nelson Doubleday (d. 1934)
  • Charles Eliot (d. 1931)
  • William Smith O'Brien, lawyer and Democratic politician from West Virginia (d. 1948)
• January 9

Agnes Bluhm born 9 January

• • Agnes Bluhm, Winner of Goethe medal (d. 1943)
  • William Samuel Booze, United States Representative (d. 1933)
  • Joseph Needham, English cricketer (d. 1889)
  • August Nölck, German Cellist (d. 1928)
  • Joseph-Octave Samson, Canadian politician (d. 1945)
  • Carrie Clark Ward, American silent film character actress (d. 1926)
  • Guglielmo Andreoli the Younger, Italian pianist (d. 1932)
• January 10
  • Reed Smoot (d. 1941)
  • Hoshino Tenchi, Japanese writer (d. 1950)
  • Walter Travis, Amateur golfer, golf course architect (d. 1927)
• January 11

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch born 11 January

• • Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch, Serbian artist and writer (d. 1908)
  • Joseph Child Priestley, English lawyer (d. 1941)
  • Joseph Nelson Rose, American botanist (d. 1928)
  • Frank Sugg, English footballer and first-class cricketer (d. 1933)
• January 12

William Coley born 12 January

• • John George Adami, Pathologist (d. 1926)
  • William Coley, American bone surgeon and cancer researcher (d. 1936)
  • John Crowley, American baseball player (d. 1896)
  • Henri L. Sudre, French botanist (d. 1918)
• January 13

James Archibald Campbell born 13 January

• • James Archibald Campbell, American , 1st President of Campbell University (1887–1934) (d. 1934)
  • John M. Dihring, American farmer (d. 1941)
  • John Forbes, Footballer (d. 1928)
  • Philadelphus Bain Fraser, Presbyterian minister, controversialist, editor (d. 1940)
• January 14 – Carrie Derick, Canadian botanist and geneticist (d. 1941)
• January 15

Levi Wright born 15 January

• • Loie Fuller, American dancer (d. 1928)
  • Elia W. Peattie, American author (d. 1935)
  • Elmer A. Stevens, American politician (d. 1932)
  • Levi Wright, English football and cricket player (d. 1953)
• January 16
  • Henry Douglas Morpeth Haszard, Surveyor, land commissioner (d. 1938)
  • Frederick Edmund Meredith, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1941)
  • William T. Tyndall, American politician (d. 1928)
• January 17
  • Javier Ángel Figueroa, Chilean politician (d. 1945)
  • Buckley Roderick, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1908)
• January 18
  • Archibald Campbell, Canadian politician (d. 1943)
  • Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr., United States Representative from Mississippi (d. 1944)
  • William Higgs, Australian politician (d. 1951)
• January 19
  • Mac MacArthur, Major League Baseball player (d. 1932)
  • Josef Reiter, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1939)
  • William W. Wemple, American politician (d. 1933)
• January 20
  • Ira Coleman Batman, American jurist and politician (d. 1934)
  • Matthew Bennett, Australian politician (d. 1951)
  • Willie Over, Australian cricketer (d. 1910)
• January 21

William Bromley-Davenport (British Army officer) born 21 January

• • William Bromley-Davenport, English footballer (d. 1949)
  • Robert Almer Harper, American botanist (d. 1946)
  • George D. Herron, American clergyman, writer and activist (d. 1925)
  • Art Sunday, American baseball player (d. 1926)
• January 22
  • Thomas Blow, Canadian bolitician (d. 1932)
  • Eugene Doherty, Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician (d. 1937)
  • William Kirkness, Australian politician (d. 1944)
  • James A. Macdonald, Canadian newspaper editor (d. 1923)
  • William Gordon Burn Murdoch, Scottish painter and explorer (d. 1939)
  • William Thompson, Australian politician (d. 1937)
  • Max Wellborn, First chairman of the board and a governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (d. 1957)
• January 23

Ovington Weller born 23 January

• • Brinton B. Davis, American architect (d. 1952)
  • David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
  • Evan Richards, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1931)
  • Frank Shuman, American inventor (d. 1918)
  • Ovington Weller, Republican member of the United States Senate (d. 1927)
• January 24

Richard Haking born 24 January

• • Prince Alfons of Bavaria, Member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry (d. 1933)
  • Richard Haking (d. 1945)
  • Johann Andreas Kneucker, German botanical collector who was a native of Wenkheim (d. 1946)
  • Jeremiah Neterer, United States federal judge (d. 1943)
  • Charles J. Thompson, American politician (d. 1932)
  • Edith Wharton, American fiction writer (d. 1937)
• January 25

Ramabai Ranade born 25 January

• • Henry Walter Barnett, Australian photographer and filmmaker (d. 1934)
  • Philip Hutchinson, South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1889 (d. 1925)
  • Ramabai Ranade, Women right activist in the early 20th century (d. 1924)
  • Joseph Ward, Farmworker, bookseller and stationer, astronomer (d. 1927)
• January 26
  • Brian Doe, New South Wales politician (d. 1941)
  • Alice Jacob, Irish botanical illustrator (d. 1921)
  • E. H. Moore, American mathematician (d. 1932)
• January 27
  • Eustaquio Escandón, Polo player (d. 1933)
  • John Joseph Esmonde, Royal Army Medical Corps officer (d. 1915)
  • René Laverdure, French Army offiver (d. 1914)
  • James A. McKenzie, American businessman and politician (d. 1918)
  • Robert O'Dwyer (d. 1949)
• January 28
  • Apollon, French strongman (d. 1928)
  • Hannah Bachman Einstein, American Jewish social worker and activist (d. 1929)
  • Martin K. Gantz, American politician (d. 1916)
  • Thomas Henry Garry, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
  • Ella Rhoads Higginson, American writer (d. 1940)
  • Franklin Henry Hooper, American editor (d. 1940)
  • Newton C. Young, American politician (d. 1923)
• January 29
  • Frantz Charlet, etcher, lithographer, painter (d. 1928)
  • Ove Dahl, Norwegian botanist (d. 1940)
  • Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
• January 30
  • Walter Damrosch, German-born American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
  • Alfred Stabell, Norwegian sport shooter (d. 1942)
• January 31

Jim Manning (baseball) born 31 January

• • Clemens Blume, Jesuit hymnologist (d. 1932)
  • Al Buckenberger, Major League Baseball manager (d. 1917)
  • John H. Foster, American politician (d. 1917)
  • S. Price Gilbert, Member of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state) (d. 1951)
  • Jim Manning, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
  • George Walbridge Perkins, American politician and businessman (d. 1920)

February

• February 1
  • Geirulf Bugge, Norwegian judge (d. 1940)
  • Marian Massonius, Polish philosopher (d. 1945)
  • Robert Richardson, British politician (d. 1943)
• February 2

R. H. Hunt born 2 February

Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer) born 2 February

• • George Arthur Boeckling, German businessman, president of Cedar Point Pleasure Company (d. 1931)
  • Émile Coste, French fencer (d. 1927)
  • Bert Dorr, Major League Baseball player (d. 1914)
  • Edward C. Finch, American politician (d. 1933)
  • Emory William Hunt, American academic (d. 1938)
  • R. H. Hunt, Architect (d. 1937)
  • Gordon Moore (d. 1934)
  • Elizabeth Lowell Putnam (d. 1935)
• February 3
  • Joaquín Dicenta, Spanish writer (d. 1917)
  • Nanna Fleischer, Norwegian teacher (d. 1946)
  • William Jackson Humphreys, American physicist and atmospheric researcher (d. 1949)
  • Arthur Kemble, English cricketer (d. 1925)
  • Kenneth W. MacKenzie, Canadian politician (d. 1929)
  • James Clark McReynolds, United States federal judge and Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)
  • Azariah Smith Root, American librarian (d. 1927)
  • Peter Slotsvik, Norwegian newspaper editor (d. 1924)
• February 4

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld born 4 February

• • Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician (d. 1953)
  • George Ernest Morrison, Australian adventurer and journalist (d. 1920)
  • Arthur Nicolaier, German Jewish internist (d. 1942)
  • Winthrop Rutherfurd, American socialite (d. 1944)
• February 5
  • Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe, Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and an Austrian nobleman (d. 1956)
  • Felipe de Jesús Villanueva Gutiérrez, Mexican composer (d. 1893)
  • Annie Mabel Hodge, Teacher, headmistress (d. 1938)
  • L. M. Wells, Actor (d. 1923)
• February 6
  • Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, German botanist (d. 1948)
  • James Cross, English cricketer (d. 1927)
  • John Juniper, English cricketer (d. 1885)
• February 7

Horace F. Graham born 7 February

Henri Konow born 7 February

• • Edward Granville Browne, British orientalist (d. 1926)
  • Shelt Carpenter, American musician (d. 1937)
  • Maria Cunțan, Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet (d. 1935)
  • Charlie Dougherty, American baseball player (d. 1925)
  • Horace F. Graham, American politician (d. 1941)
  • Henri Konow, Governor of the Danish West Indies (d. 1939)
  • Bernard Maybeck, American Arts and Crafts architect (d. 1957)
  • Arthur T. Polhill-Turner, English missionary (d. 1935)
  • Sante De Sanctis, Psychologist (d. 1935)
• February 8
  • Ferdinand Ferber, French Army captain and aviation pioneer (d. 1909)
  • Károly Ferenczy, Hungarian artist (d. 1917)
  • James Macdonald, British engineer (d. 1927)
• February 9

A. V. Williams Jackson born 9 February

• • May Fortescue, British actress and singer (d. 1950)
  • Francis Richard Hall, architect in Brisbane (d. 1939)
  • A. V. Williams Jackson (d. 1937)
  • M. Price Webb, Member of the Senate of Virginia (d. 1938)
• February 10
  • Gobo Ashley (d. 1930)
  • Paddy Crick, New South Wales politician (d. 1908)
  • Émile Topsent, French zoologist (d. 1951)
• February 11

Curt Welch born 11 February

• • George Harrison, English county cricketer (d. 1940)
  • Francis Sowerby Macaulay (d. 1937)
  • Edward Everett Rose, American playwright (d. 1939)
  • Harvey Simpson, politician in Manitoba (d. 1928)
  • Curt Welch, American baseball player (d. 1896)
• February 12
  • Manuel de Brito Camacho, Portuguese military officer and writer (d. 1934)
  • Thomas Cullinan, South African businessman (d. 1936)
  • Alexandru Davila, Romanian writer and diplomat (d. 1929)
  • Henry Lyster, Irish dean (d. 1932)
  • James Mansfield, Cricketer (d. 1932)
  • Robert Stopford (d. 1926)
• February 13

Henry F. Urban born 13 February

• • Mikkel Hindhede, Danish physician (d. 1945)
  • James Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant, British politician (d. 1933)
  • Henry F. Urban, German-American journalist, author (d. 1924)
  • Karel Weis (d. 1944)
• February 14

Agnes Pockels born 14 February

• • Benigno C. Hernández, first Hispanic from New Mexico to serve as a full Member of Congress (d. 1954)
  • Nestore Leoni, Italian painter (d. 1947)
  • Agnes Pockels, German pioneer in chemistry (d. 1935)
  • Sam Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1943)
• February 15
  • John Fitzpatrick, Australian politician (d. 1932)
  • Joe Weber, American baseball player (d. 1921)
• February 16
  • Llewellyn John Montford Bebb, British academic (d. 1915)
  • Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel, German entomologist (d. 1936)
  • Phil Tanner, important traditional singer of Llangenith in the Gower Peninsula (South Wales) (d. 1950)
• February 17

Eduard Bornhöhe born 17 February

• • Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian writer (d. 1923)
  • Edward German, English musician and composer of Welsh descent (d. 1936)
  • Gustave Glotz, French historian (d. 1935)
  • Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, American playwright (d. 1935)
  • Eugen Schmidt, Danish shooter (d. 1931)
  • Harry Topham, English cricketer (d. 1925)
  • Arthur Norreys Worthington, Canadian politician (d. 1912)
• February 18

Charles M. Schwab born 18 February

• • Hector Champagne, Canadian politician (d. 1941)
  • James Gray, journalist and the 19th mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1916)
  • Milford W. Howard, American politician (d. 1937)
  • Hans Larsson, Swedish philosopher (d. 1944)
  • Ermenegildo Pistelli, Italian Egyptologist (d. 1927)
  • Charles M. Schwab, American steel magnate (d. 1939)
  • Albert Welti, Swiss artist (d. 1912)
• February 19
  • John Robert Brown, Canadian politician (d. 1947)
  • Moses J. Doucet, Canadian politician (d. 1906)
  • Lev Kekushev, Russian architect (d. 1916)
  • Rudolf Muus, Norwegian writer (d. 1935)
  • Oskar Seyffert, German classical scholar (d. 1940)
• February 20

Timothy Casey born 20 February

• • Charles Barrington Balfour, British politician (d. 1921)
  • Timothy Casey, Catholic bishop (d. 1931)
  • Alexander Ludovic Duff, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1933)
  • Clement Mitchell, English footballer (d. 1937)
  • Harry Raymond, American baseball player (d. 1925)
• February 21 – Sydney Copeman, British doctor (d. 1947)
• February 22

William J. Olcott born 22 February

• • Alexander G. Crockett, Member of the Senate of Virginia (d. 1919)
  • Thomas Cusack, Catholic bishop (d. 1918)
  • Ruth Gentry, pioneering American woman mathematician (d. 1917)
  • Philipp von Hellingrath, German general (d. 1939)
  • Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, first Japanese born Bishop of Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (d. 1928)
  • William J. Olcott, American football player (d. 1935)
• February 24
  • Edilberto Evangelista, Filipino civil engineer and a revolutionary (d. 1897)
  • Henry Esson Young, British Colombian politician (d. 1939)
• February 25
  • Helen Bannerman (d. 1946)
  • Waldemar Belck, German archaeologist (d. 1932)
  • John Allister Currie, Canadian politician (d. 1931)
  • Stanisław Głąbiński, Polish politician, academic, lawyer and writer (d. 1941)
• February 26 – Henry Worrall, Australian Methodist minister, Orangeman and temperance advocate (d. 1940)
• February 27
  • James Barrett, ophthalmologist and academic administrator (d. 1945)
  • Charles Hedley, Australian zoologist (d. 1926)
  • Hamilton Fish Kean, United States Senate (d. 1941)
• February 28

E. W. Bastard born 28 February

• • Talib al-Naqib, Iraqi Politician (d. 1929)
  • E. W. Bastard, English cricketer who played for Oxford University and Somerset (d. 1901)
  • Lars Jonson Haukaness, American artist (d. 1929)
  • Edwin Savage, British priest in the Church of England and an author (d. 1947)

March

• March 1

Ángel Mislan born 1 March

• • John Andrew Bowler, American minister (d. 1935)
  • Joseph Butler, Sawmiller, timber merchant (d. 1934)
  • Sidney J. A. Churchill, British diplomat and art historian (d. 1921)
  • Edward Curtis Franklin, American chemist (d. 1937)
  • Brice Meuleman, Belgian bishop (d. 1924)
  • Ángel Mislan, composer of Puerto Rican Danzas (d. 1911)
  • Maurice Nicolle, French microbiologist (d. 1932)
  • Livia Simpson Poffenbarger, American historian and newspaper owner (d. 1937)
• March 2
  • John Jay Chapman, American author (d. 1933)
  • Edward Robins, American writer (d. 1943)
  • Edwin Milton Royle, American writer (d. 1942)
• March 3

Jakob Heusser-Staub born 3 March

• • Sadie American, American activist (d. 1944)
  • Albertus Theodore Briggs, American Methodist minister (d. 1937)
  • Jakob Heusser-Staub, Swiss industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1941)
  • Božidar Knežević, Serbian philosopher and writer (d. 1905)
  • Paddy Nolan, Canadian lawyer (d. 1913)
  • Jumbo Schoeneck, Major League Baseball player (d. 1930)
• March 4

George H. Prouty born 4 March

• • Charles Williamson Crook, English teacher, trade union official and politician (d. 1926)
  • Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
  • Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist (d. 1940)
  • Norman Gale, British writer (d. 1942)
  • Tom Gunning, American baseball player (d. 1931)
  • George H. Prouty, American politician (d. 1918)
• March 5

Siegbert Tarrasch born 5 March

• • Edward Allen, Australian politician and journalist (d. 1936)
  • Frederick Haynes Newell (d. 1932)
  • Peter Newell, Artist (d. 1924)
  • Siegbert Tarrasch (d. 1934)
• March 6
  • Allen Caperton Braxton, American lawyer (d. 1914)
  • Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1940)
  • Edward Hardcastle, English cricketer (d. 1945)
  • Daniel W. Mead (d. 1948)
  • Eugen Rehfisch, German physician (d. 1937)
• March 7
  • George Alexander Ballard, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1948)
  • Theodor Kipp, German jurist who is perhaps best known for his theory of "double nullity" (d. 1931)
  • Josef Strzygowski, Polish-Austrian art historian (d. 1941)
• March 8

George Frederick Phillips born 8 March

• • Robert Barr (d. 1947)
  • William Irwin Grubb, United States federal judge (d. 1935)
  • Thomas Neelands, ninth Mayor of Vancouver (d. 1944)
  • George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero (d. 1904)
  • Ogasawara Tadanobu, Daimyo who ruled the Kokura Domain (d. 1897)
• March 9
  • Alfred Berkeley, British bishop (d. 1938)
  • Sidney Frederic Harmer, British zoologist (d. 1950)
  • Mykola Pymonenko (d. 1912)
  • Georges-Fernand Widal, French physician (d. 1929)
• March 10

Ed Lytle born 10 March

Edward Shortt born 10 March

• • Florence Aylward, English composer (d. 1950)
  • Johan Olaf Bredal, Norwegian barrister and politician (d. 1948)
  • Fernand Chapsal, French lawyer (d. 1939)
  • Robert Lee (d. 1925)
  • Ed Lytle, Professional baseball player and manager (d. 1950)
  • Charles T. Menoher, United States Army general (d. 1930)
  • Edward Shortt (d. 1935)
  • Edward Swann, American politician (d. 1945)
• March 11

Charles Turner (cricketer) born 11 March

• • Josef Konstantin Beer, Czech artist (d. 1933)
  • John Cowans, British Army general (d. 1921)
  • Charles Fisk, American politician (d. 1932)
  • Edle Hartmann, Norwegian writer (d. 1946)
  • William Graham Nicholson, British politician (d. 1942)
  • Charles Turner, bowler, one of the finest ever produced by Australia (d. 1944)
  • Charles Turner, English cricketer (d. 1926)
  • Harold Wager, British mycologist (d. 1929)
• March 12
  • Benjamin F. Baker, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1927)
  • Wilhelm Forsberg, Swedish yacht racer (d. 1939)
  • Henry Hendrickson, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1912)
  • Bill Kienzle, American baseball player (d. 1910)
  • Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum, Swedish chemist (d. 1933)
• March 13

Jane Delano born 13 March

William Emmett Dever born 13 March

• • Theodor des Coudres, German physicist (d. 1926)
  • Jane Delano, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. 1919)
  • William Emmett Dever (d. 1929)
  • Paul Prosper Henrys (d. 1943)
  • Harold Leach, English cricketer (d. 1928)
  • David McDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1939)
  • Joe McGuckin, American baseball player (d. 1903)
  • Sir John Mellor, 1st Baronet, British lawyer and Treasury Solicitor (d. 1929)
  • Margaret Tuke (d. 1947)
  • Wilhelm Weigand, German Neoromanticism and Realism period poet and writer (d. 1949)
• March 14

Percy Shaw Jeffrey born 14 March

• • Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951)
  • Richard Howland Hunt, American architect and member of the notable Hunt family of Vermont (d. 1931)
  • Percy Shaw Jeffrey, Schoolmaster, academic and author (d. 1952)
  • Eva Thatcher, American film actress (d. 1942)
  • Geerhardus Vos, American theologian (d. 1949)
• March 15
  • Gordon Beves, Umpire (d. 1927)
  • Herbert King-Hall, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1936)
  • Alejandro Sawa, Spanish writer (d. 1909)
• March 16
  • Dan Abbott, American baseball player (d. 1930)
  • Ernest Arthur Gardner, English archaeologist (d. 1939)
  • Arthur Gaskin, British artist (d. 1928)
  • Wil van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh's sister (d. 1941)
  • Cecil Haig, British fencer (d. 1947)
  • Otto von Stetten, German General of the Cavalry in World War I (d. 1937)
• March 17
  • Dina Barberini, Italian opera singer (d. 1932)
  • François-Rupert Carabin, French artist (d. 1932)
  • G. E. Farrow, British writer (d. 1919)
  • Silvio Gesell, German economist (d. 1930)
  • Edward Griffiths, English cricketer (d. 1893)
  • Charles Laval, French painter associated with the Synthetic movement and Pont-Aven School (d. 1894)
  • Homer Plessy, American Louisiana Creole of Color plaintiff (d. 1925)
• March 18
  • Dorr Felt, American inventor (d. 1930)
  • Eugène Jansson, Painter (d. 1915)
  • P. Rajagopalachari (d. 1927)
• March 19

Henry William Newlands born 19 March

• • Arthur Merric Boyd, Australian painter (d. 1940)
  • Adolf Kneser, German mathematician (d. 1930)
  • Henry William Newlands, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
  • Ruggero Panerai, Italian painter (d. 1923)
  • Marcel Rieder, French painter (d. 1942)
  • Joseph Stoppenbach, American businessman and politician (d. 1944)
  • William Henry Watkins, British co-operative activist (d. 1924)
• March 20 – John Charles Groome, American police commissioner (d. 1930)
• March 21 – Arthur Carnell, Sport shooter (d. 1940)
• March 22
  • Frank Bacon, English footballer (d. 1917)
  • Laura Jean Libbey, American writer (d. 1924)
  • Edward Treharne, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1904)
• March 23

Eduard Study born 23 March

• • George Head Barclay, British diplomat (d. 1921)
  • Kenny Davenport, English footballer (d. 1908)
  • Alfred Dührssen, German gynecologist and obstetrician (d. 1933)
  • Gabriela Preissová, Czech writer (d. 1946)
  • Nathaniel Reed, American gunman (d. 1950)
  • Eduard Study, German mathematician; worked on invariant theory of ternary forms and spherical trigonometry (d. 1930)
• March 24

Frank Weston Benson born 24 March

• • Frank Weston Benson, American artist from Salem (d. 1951)
  • Émile Marchoux, French microbiologist (d. 1943)
  • William L. Mathues, American politician (d. 1908)
  • Gilbert McMicking, British politician (d. 1942)
  • Louisa Woosley, first woman ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (d. 1952)
• March 25

George Sutherland born 25 March

• • Charlie Geggus, American baseball player (d. 1917)
  • Patrick Gilday, American labor unionist (d. 1917)
  • William E. Johnson, American leader of the Anti-Saloon League (d. 1945)
  • May Morris, English artisan (d. 1938)
  • Theodor Rumpel, German surgeon (d. 1923)
  • George Sutherland, U.S. jurist and political figure (d. 1942)
• March 26
  • Bernhard M. Jacobsen, American politician (d. 1936)
  • Harry Pickett, English cricketer (d. 1907)
  • Dicky Richards (d. 1903)
• March 27
  • Francesc Alió, Composer (d. 1908)
  • Hipólito Boaventura Caron, Brazilian painter and designer (d. 1892)
  • Arthur Groenouw, German ophthalmologist (d. 1945)
• March 28

Angelo Battelli born 28 March

• • Angelo Battelli, Italian physicist (d. 1916)
  • Aristide Briand, French politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
  • Alfred Marr, Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885 (d. 1940)
  • George Marshall-Hall, Australian composer, conductor and poet (d. 1915)
• March 29
  • Carl Busch, Danish-born American composer (d. 1943)
  • William Guard, American opera publicist (d. 1932)
  • Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-born American painter (d. 1947)
• March 30

Ossian Schauman born 30 March

• • Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, Film director film writer (d. 1913)
  • Francis R. Pryor, British playwright (d. 1937)
  • Leonard James Rogers, British mathematician (d. 1933)
  • Ossian Schauman, Finnish scientist (d. 1922)
  • David Henry Souter, Australian journalist and illustrator (d. 1935)
  • George Stephan, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (d. 1944)
• March 31

Claude A. Swanson born 31 March

• • Art Benedict, American baseball player (d. 1948)
  • William E. Humphrey (d. 1934)
  • Gustav A. Olsen-Berg, Norwegian politician (d. 1896)
  • Claude A. Swanson, American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia (d. 1939)

April

• April 1
  • Carl Charlier, Swedish astronomer (d. 1934)
  • A.J. Gibson, architect in Missoula (d. 1927)
  • Frederick G. Roberts, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1936)
• April 2

Nicholas Murray Butler born 2 April

• • Nicholas Murray Butler, American president of Columbia University and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1947)
  • Bryan Mahon (d. 1930)
  • James McGhee, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1941)
  • William Bauchop Wilson, (Scottish-born) American labor leader and progressive (d. 1934)
• April 3
  • Oscar Grossheim, American photographer (d. 1954)
  • Willie Hume, Irish racing cyclist (d. 1941)
  • Adam Rolland Rainy, British politician (d. 1911)
  • John Thayer, American ornithologist (d. 1949)
• April 4
  • Wilhelm Altmann, German historian (d. 1951)
  • Robert King, English footballer (d. 1950)
  • John McCloskey, American baseball manager (d. 1940)
  • Erich Paulun, German physician (d. 1909)
  • Hugh Rathbone, British politician (d. 1940)
  • Peter Joseph Shields, American judge (d. 1962)
• April 5
  • Vicente Álvarez, Philippine revolutionary hero (d. 1942)
  • Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet (d. 1935)
  • Edwin Edwards, Businessman, local politician, newspaper proprietor and editor, balladeer (d. 1909)
  • Leo Stern, British cellist (d. 1904)
• April 6

Nikolai Knipovich born 6 April

• • Georges Darien, French writer (d. 1921)
  • Eddie Hogan, American baseball player (d. 1932)
  • Nikolai Knipovich, Russian zoologist (d. 1939)
  • Francis T. Ryan, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1927)
• April 7
  • William Haselden Ellerbe, American politician (d. 1899)
  • Savvas the New of Kalymnos, Greek saint (d. 1947)
  • Christian Landenberger, German artist (d. 1927)
• April 8
  • George Briner, Australian politician (d. 1920)
  • Georges Louis Humbert, French general (d. 1921)
  • Charles Willock, English cricketer (d. 1919)
• April 9

Henry Tonks born 9 April

• • Charles Brent, American Episopal bishop (d. 1929)
  • Anna Maria Roos, Swedish educator (d. 1938)
  • Harold Steel, English cricketer who played for Lancashire and Cambridge University (d. 1911)
  • Henry Tonks, British artist (d. 1937)
• April 10

Elliot Johnson (politician) born 10 April

• • Wilbur Lucius Cross, American literary critic who served as the 71st Governor of Connecticut (d. 1948)
  • Ed Ford, American baseball player (d. 1931)
  • Alison Garland, British politician (d. 1939)
  • Carl Goetz, Austrian actor (d. 1932)
  • Elliot Johnson, Australian politician (d. 1932)
  • Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone, Canadian politician (d. 1936)
  • E. E. Seevers, American politician (d. 1927)
• April 11

Charles Evans Hughes born 11 April

Friedrich Berthold Reinke born 11 April

• • William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
  • Heinrich Cunow, German politician (d. 1936)
  • R. Austin Freeman, British writer of detective stories (d. 1943)
  • Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and statesman (d. 1948)
  • Thomas Kearns, United State Senator from Utah (d. 1918)
  • Friedrich Berthold Reinke, German anatomist (d. 1919)
  • Fred Swanton, businessman who served as mayor of Santa Cruz (d. 1940)
  • Samuel Winslow, American politician (d. 1940)
• April 12
  • Nikolay Likhachyov, Russian art historian (d. 1936)
  • Frank A. Mason, American football player and coach (d. 1940)
• April 13
  • Arthur Holland, British politician (d. 1927)
  • Flaminius Raiberti, French politician who was a Radical Republican deputy for Nice for 32 years (d. 1929)
  • Ahmad II of Tunis (d. 1942)
• April 14

Martin Grove Brumbaugh born 14 April

• • Giuseppe Brentano, Italian architect (d. 1889)
  • Martin Grove Brumbaugh, American politician (d. 1930)
  • Néstor Montoya, American politician (d. 1923)
  • William Tonge, Cricketer (d. 1943)
• April 15
  • Amico Bignami, Italian physician and pathologist (d. 1929)
  • Lelia N. Morris, American Methodist hymnwriter (d. 1929)
  • Martin A. Morrison, American politician (d. 1944)
  • John Robb, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1913)
  • Sy Sutcliffe, American baseball player (d. 1893)
• April 16 – John Baxter Barbour, Jr., American sports executive (d. 1929)
• April 17
  • Herbert William Allingham, British surgeon (d. 1904)
  • John M. Faison, American politician (d. 1915)
  • Henry Mullin, Canadian baseball player (d. 1937)
  • Abbott Barnes Rice, American politician (d. 1926)
• April 18

H. F. B. Lynch born 18 April

George Baker (cricketer, born 1862) born 18 April

• • George Baker, English cricketer (d. 1938)
  • Harry Bell, English footballer (d. 1948)
  • George Dovey, Owner of the National League's Boston Doves (d. 1909)
  • Gustav Lund, Norwegian Sami preacher (d. 1912)
  • H. F. B. Lynch, British politician (d. 1913)
  • William A. Shanklin, American academic (d. 1924)
  • George Westcott, Bishop of Lucknow (d. 1928)
  • Charles B. Witmer, United States federal judge (d. 1925)
• April 19
  • Thomas Rogers Kimball, American architect (d. 1934)
  • Thomas Wardall, English county cricketer (d. 1932)
• April 20 – Paul Scherrer, Swiss politician (d. 1935)
• April 21
  • Ralph W. Moss, American politician (d. 1919)
  • François-Léon Sicard (d. 1934)
  • John Thayer, American first-class cricketer (d. 1912)
• April 22
  • Albert Christopher Addison, writer, Newspaper reporter (d. 1935)
  • Jeanne Chauvin, second woman to obtain a degree in law in France (d. 1926)
  • C. Hayden Coffin, English actor and singer in many famous Edwardian musical comedies (d. 1935)
  • Robert Thomson Melrose, Australian pastoralist and politician (d. 1945)
  • John Rosser, Australian cricketer (d. 1925)
• April 24

Nathaniel B. Dial born 24 April

• • A. C. Benson, English essayist (d. 1925)
  • Gaston Bussière, French Symbolist painter and illustrator (d. 1928)
  • Nathaniel B. Dial, American politician (d. 1940)
  • Hugo Markus Ganz, German journalist (d. 1922)
  • Cyril Maude, English actor-manager (d. 1951)
• April 25

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon born 25 April

• • Maurice Reymond de Broutelles, Swiss artist (d. 1936)
  • Philip P. Campbell, American politician (d. 1941)
  • Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (d. 1933)
  • Edmund Radcliffe Pears, Royal navy officer (d. 1941)
  • John R. Ramsey, American politician (d. 1933)
  • Samuel J. Ramsperger, American politician (d. 1936)
  • Frederick Willoughby, English cricketer (d. 1952)
• April 26

Edmund C. Tarbell born 26 April

• • James T. Powers, American actor (d. 1943)
  • Niels Thorkild Rovsing, Danish surgeon (d. 1927)
  • Edmund C. Tarbell, American Impressionist painter (d. 1938)
  • Harold Bridgwood Walker (d. 1934)
• April 27
  • Hans Kehr, German surgeon (d. 1916)
  • William Wallace McCredie, American politician (d. 1935)
  • Rudolph Schildkraut, Istanbul born American actor (d. 1930)
  • Roderick Dhu Sutherland, Nebraska Populist politician (d. 1915)
  • Hugh Vincent, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1931)
• April 28
  • William Norton, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1898)
  • John Shannon (d. 1926)
  • Tudor St. George Tucker, Australian artist (d. 1906)
• April 29

Joseph Alexander Altsheler born 29 April

• • Joseph Alexander Altsheler, American newspaper reporter (d. 1919)
  • Edward Boddington, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1897)
  • Carl Friedemann, Composer, conductor, and musician (d. 1952)
  • Frédérique Vallet-Bisson, French painter (d. 1949)
• April 30 – Heinrich Zoelly, Developer of turbines, patented geothermal heat pump (d. 1937)

May

• May 1
  • Ida Stover Eisenhower, First Mother of the United States (d. 1946)
  • Thomas M. Jett, American politician (d. 1939)
  • Marcel Prévost, French author and dramatist (d. 1941)
  • Harchandrai Vishandas, British Indian lawyer (d. 1928)
• May 2
  • Ollie Beard, Major League Baseball player, burgoo (d. 1887)
  • Maurice Emmanuel, French composer of classical music born in Bar-sur-Aube (d. 1938)
  • Thomas Williams, English-born Australian politician (d. 1953)
• May 3
  • Dirk van Foreest, Dutch chess player (d. 1956)
  • Frank Luxford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1954)
• May 4

Enrico Caviglia born 4 May

• • Romeo Antoniazzi, Italian luthier (d. 1925)
  • Enrico Caviglia, Marshal of Italy (d. 1945)
  • Thomas F. Conway, New York politician (d. 1945)
  • John Adam Cramb, British historian (d. 1913)
  • Albert Moll (d. 1939)
  • William Joseph O'Connor, Canadian rower (d. 1892)
  • Billy Otterson, American baseball player (d. 1940)
  • Henry Beyer Robertson, son of Henry Robertson (d. 1948)
• May 5 – Hermon Carey Bumpus, American academic administrator (d. 1943)
• May 6
  • Jeff Davis (d. 1913)
  • Edwin W. Rice, American engineer (d. 1935)
  • Oscar Underwood, American politician from Alabama and candidate for President of the United States (d. 1929)
• May 7
  • Siegfried Kalischer, German neurologist (d. 1956)
  • Nevil Macready, British Army officer (d. 1946)
• May 8

Emilie Rathou born 8 May

• • Horace Bivins, Buffalo Soldier of the United States Army (d. 1937)
  • Henry Bruce, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1948)
  • S. Wallace Dempsey, American politician (d. 1949)
  • Hugo Erdmann, German chemist (d. 1910)
  • Emilie Rathou, Swedish Social Democrat, temperance- and women's right activist (d. 1948)
• May 9

William Valentine born 9 May

• • Charles Wilberforce Daniels, British medical doctor and scientist (d. 1927)
  • J. Doyle Penrose, Irish painter (d. 1932)
  • Hugh Stowell Scott (d. 1903)
  • William Valentine, innovative educator and missionary in service of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (d. 1928)
• May 10
  • Alcon Bowman, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
  • L. C. Pedersen (d. 1929)
  • Frank Wyman, American baseball player (d. 1916)
• May 11

Franklin S. Billings born 11 May

• • Ryland Adkins, British politician (d. 1925)
  • Franklin S. Billings, American politician (d. 1935)
  • Thomas Arkle Clark, American academic (d. 1932)
  • Bernard Currey, Royal Navy officer who commanded the 5th Battle Squadron (d. 1936)
  • Anders Sandvig, Founded Norwegian cultural museum (d. 1950)
• May 12

Jimmy Wolf born 12 May

• • T.C. Johnson, Firearm designer (d. 1934)
  • Louise Phelps Kellogg, American historian (d. 1942)
  • Anthony R. Kuser, American businessman (d. 1929)
  • Max Wentscher, German philosopher (d. 1942)
  • Jimmy Wolf, Major League Baseball player (d. 1903)
• May 13
  • William Clough, British politician (d. 1937)
  • Thomas Johannes Lauritz Parr, Norwegian psychologist (d. 1935)
  • Joseph Redfearn, English county cricketer (d. 1931)
  • Arthur R. Richardson, Canadian politician (d. 1936)
  • Janko Veselinović, Writer (d. 1905)
• May 14 – Thomas Payne (d. 1932)
• May 15

Arthur Schnitzler born 15 May

• • Cassius Jackson Keyser, American mathematician of pronounced philosophical inclinations (d. 1947)
  • Wilhelm Max Müller, American orientalist (d. 1919)
  • Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)
  • Arthur Wakerley, British architect and politician (d. 1931)
• May 16

Len Small born 16 May

• • Margaret Fountaine, British entomologist (d. 1940)
  • George Grewcock, English cricketer (d. 1922)
  • Andrieus A. Jones, Democratic Party politician from New Mexico, represented the state in the United States Senate (d. 1927)
  • Camillo Pace, Italian pastor (d. 1948)
  • Anna Seward Pruitt, missionary in China (d. 1948)
  • Len Small, American politician (d. 1936)
  • Willem de Zwart, Dutch painter (d. 1931)
• May 17 – H. Reeves-Smith, Actor (d. 1938)
• May 18

Josephus Daniels born 18 May

• • Josephus Daniels, progressive Democrat (d. 1948)
  • Tom Gillen, American baseball player (d. 1889)
  • Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, German psychologist (d. 1929)
  • Anderson Howell Walters, American politician (d. 1927)
• May 19
  • João do Canto e Castro, Portuguese Navy officer and the fifth President of the Portuguese Republic (d. 1934)
  • Gino Loria, Italian mathematician (d. 1954)
• May 20
  • André Berthelot, son of the chemist and politician Marcellin Berthelot and a député of the Seine (d. 1938)
  • Constant-Désiré Despradelle, French architect (d. 1912)
  • Hans Hartmann-MacLean, German sculptor (d. 1946)
• May 21
  • Imro Fox, Magician (d. 1910)
  • Thomas Ewing III, Commissioner of the US Patent office (d. 1942)
• May 22

Solomon Dias Bandaranaike born 22 May

• • Solomon Dias Bandaranaike (d. 1946)
  • Enrico Brunetti, British musician and entomologist (d. 1927)
  • Henry Cowan, politician in the United Kingdom (d. 1932)
  • Hans Schmaus, German pathologist (d. 1905)
  • Nathaniel Schmidt (d. 1939)
• May 23

Dummy Hoy born 23 May

• • Hermann Gunkel (d. 1932)
  • Yrjö Halonen, Finnish cantor (d. 1941)
  • David George Hogarth, British archaeologist and scholar associated with T (d. 1927)
  • Dummy Hoy (d. 1961)
  • Eugene Zimmerman, Swiss cartoonist (d. 1935)
• May 24
  • Allan Heywood Bright, British politician (d. 1941)
  • Annie Chemis, Homemaker, dairy worker, petitioner, charwoman (d. 1939)
  • Newton W. Gilbert, politician from Indiana (d. 1939)
• May 25
  • Richard Kentfield, Cricketer (d. 1904)
  • Bill G. Lowrey, American politician (d. 1947)
• May 26
  • Henry John, English cricketer who played for Lancashire (d. 1941)
  • Patrick O'Connor (d. 1923)
• May 27

Ed Crane (baseball) born 27 May

• • John Kendrick Bangs, American author and satirist (d. 1922)
  • John Edward Campbell, Irish mathematician (d. 1924)
  • Arthur Cocks, Australian politician (d. 1943)
  • Ed Crane, Major League Baseball player (d. 1896)
  • Francis Llewellyn Griffith, eminent British Egyptologist (d. 1934)
  • Charles Hoggins, Australian politician (d. 1923)
• May 28

Henry Slocum (tennis) born 28 May

• • Edward Treacher Collins, English surgeon and ophthalmologist (d. 1932)
  • Theodor Fischer, German architect and teacher (d. 1938)
  • Amos E. Germer, American politician and lawyer (d. 1935)
  • Henry Slocum, American male tennis player (d. 1949)
  • Andrei Zarin, Russian writer (d. 1929)
• May 29 – Alfred Jørgen Bryn, Norwegian patent engineer (d. 1937)
• May 30

Mirza Alakbar Sabir born 30 May

• • Anton Ažbe, Slovenian artist (d. 1905)
  • Kristian Magdalon Bing, Norwegian jurist and mountaineer (d. 1935)
  • Konstantin Fofanov, Russian poet (d. 1911)
  • Eduard Heyck, German poet (d. 1941)
  • Anders Nielsen, Danish politician (d. 1914)
  • Courtice Pounds (d. 1927)
  • Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Azerbaijani poet (d. 1911)
• May 31 – Cynthia May Alden, teacher, editor (d. 1931)

June

• June 1 – Charles Jesson, British politician (d. 1926)
• June 2

Julius Tafel born 2 June

• • William Cross Barratt, British general (d. 1940)
  • Adolf des Coudres, Painter (d. 1924)
  • Émile Mâle, French art historian (d. 1954)
  • Friedrich Rathgen, German chemist (d. 1942)
  • Julius Tafel, Swiss chemist (d. 1918)
  • Thomas Fleming Wilson, British politician (d. 1929)
• June 3

Ambrose E. B. Stephens born 3 June

• • Humfrey Anger, Canadian music educator (d. 1913)
  • George Cory, South African historian and chemist (d. 1935)
  • Gaston Rivierre, French racing cyclist (d. 1942)
  • Ambrose E. B. Stephens, American politician (d. 1927)
• June 4
  • Camille Decoppet, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1912–1919) (d. 1925)
  • Catherine Waugh McCulloch, American lawyer and noted suffragist (d. 1945)
• June 5
  • Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg, Austrian politician (d. 1931)
  • Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1930)
  • Richard Jose, Singer (d. 1941)
• June 6 – Henry Newbolt (d. 1938)
• June 7

Philipp Lenard born 7 June

• • Fernando Díaz de Mendoza y Aguado, Spanish actor (d. 1930)
  • Alexander Barbour, Scottish footballer (d. 1930)
  • Alice Van Vechten Brown (d. 1949)
  • Aubrey FitzClarence, 4th Earl of Munster, British peer (d. 1928)
  • Philipp Lenard, Hungarian–German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1947)
  • Phil Reccius, Major League Baseball player (d. 1902)
• June 8
  • John Dunn, Cricketer (d. 1892)
  • Tom Lee, American baseball player (d. 1886)
  • Ole Jacob Skattum, Norwegian politician (d. 1930)
  • David Ogden Watkins, American mayor (d. 1938)
• June 9

Herbert Baker born 9 June

• • Herbert Baker (d. 1946)
  • John Franklin Miller (d. 1936)
  • Lyman T. Tingier, American politician (d. 1920)
  • Luigi Trinchero, Italian sculptor (d. 1944)
• June 10
  • Caroline Louise Dudley, later (Mrs. Leslie Carter), American stage and silent screen actress (d. 1937)
  • John de Robeck, British admiral (d. 1928)
• June 11
  • Johann Dietrich Alfken, German entomologist (d. 1945)
  • Rodolfo Benini, Italian statistician (d. 1956)
  • John Coleman (d. 1905)
  • Edward Thomas Connold, English naturalist and author with a particular interest in oak galls (d. 1910)
  • John Daniel FitzGerald, Australian politician (d. 1922)
  • Violet Florence Martin, Irish author, co-wrote novels with cousin Edith Somerville under the pen name of Martin Ross (d. 1915)
  • Ralph W. Thomas, American politician (d. 1920)
• June 12

James H. Brady born 12 June

• • James H. Brady, Republican politician from Idaho (d. 1918)
  • William Carter, British politician (d. 1932)
  • Philippe A. Guye, chemist that was awarded the Davy Medal in 1921 "for his researches in physical chemistry" (d. 1922)
  • Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, German novelist and playwright (d. 1934)
  • Edgar Smith, Major League Baseball player (d. 1892)
  • Alexander Spitzmüller, Austrian politician (d. 1953)
  • Winthrop E. Stone, professor of chemistry and served as the president of Purdue University from 1900–1921 (d. 1921)
• June 13
  • Frederick Baume, New Zealand politician (d. 1910)
  • Cyrus L. Lathrop, American politician and farmer (d. 1941)
• June 14

George Nichols (cricketer) born 14 June

• • Frank Buchanan, American politician (d. 1930)
  • William Carr, British biographer (d. 1925)
  • Herbert Dicksee (d. 1942)
  • John J. Glennon, Irish American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1946)
  • Forrest Goodwin, American politician (d. 1913)
  • Max Linde, German art collector (d. 1940)
  • John Ulric Nef, American chemist (d. 1915)
  • George Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1911)
• June 15

Otto Wiener (physicist) born 15 June

James Taft Hatfield born 15 June

• • William Carlile, British politician (d. 1950)
  • Edwin G. Fifield, American businessman and politician (d. 1925)
  • Frantz Funck-Brentano, French historian (d. 1947)
  • James Taft Hatfield, American philologist and professor at Northwestern University (d. 1945)
  • George Helmore, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 1922)
  • John Poyntz Tyler, American bishop (d. 1931)
  • Peek-A-Boo Veach, Major League Baseball player (d. 1937)
  • Otto Wiener, German physicst (d. 1927)
• June 16

Alma Bridwell White born 16 June

• • Richard Beamish, Irish politician and company director (d. 1938)
  • Henry C. Christians, American businessman and politician (d. 1945)
  • Olaf Frydenlund, Sport shooter (d. 1947)
  • Manuel Antonio Mesones Muro, Peruvian explorer (d. 1930)
  • Tommy Taylor, Christchurch mayor (d. 1911)
  • Alma Bridwell White, founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church (d. 1946)
• June 17
  • Gerard D'Arcy-Irvine, Anglican coadjutor bishop (d. 1932)
  • Arthur Letts, American businessman (d. 1923)
  • Edward Nicholl, British politician (d. 1939)
• June 18

Charlie Ganzel born 18 June

• • John Lement Bacon, Vermont State Treasurer (d. 1909)
  • Dick Blaisdell, American baseball player (d. 1886)
  • Charlie Ganzel, American baseball player (d. 1914)
  • Otto Immisch, German philologist (d. 1932)
  • Carolyn Wells, United States author and poet (d. 1942)
• June 19 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (d. 1952)
• June 20 – James Edward Ignatius Masterson (d. 1935)
• June 21

Damrong Rajanubhab born 21 June

• • George Henry Chamberlain, American legislator (d. 1943)
  • Arthur James Grant, British historian (d. 1948)
  • Henry Holden Huss, American composer (d. 1953)
  • Archibald MacMechan, Canadian academic (d. 1933)
  • Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)
  • Humphry Rolleston, British baronet (d. 1944)
  • Johannes Schlaf, Playwright and author (d. 1941)
• June 22

Lule Warrenton born 22 June

• • Arthur Ferguson, British police officer (d. 1935)
  • Havelock Hudson, British Indian Army general (d. 1944)
  • Blaise-Ferdinand Letellier, Canadian politician (d. 1930)
  • Lule Warrenton, American actress (d. 1932)
• June 23
  • William Woodward Baldwin, American lawyer and government official (d. 1954)
  • Howard Lincoln Hodgkins, American mathematician (d. 1931)
  • Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll, Dutch entomologist (d. 1924)
  • Geraldine Ulmar, American singer and actress (d. 1932)
• June 24
  • Emilio Bobadilla, Cuban writer (d. 1921)
  • Claude George Drummond Hay, British politician and businessman (d. 1920)
  • George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis, British peer (d. 1952)
  • Chris Knutsen, American guitar maker (d. 1930)
  • Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, German prince (d. 1885)
• June 25
  • Herbert Brereton Baker, British chemist (d. 1935)
  • Thomas Wegner Larsen Haaland, Norwegian politician (d. 1935)
• June 26

Harry Taylor (engineer) born 26 June

• • Eberhard Fraas, geologist (d. 1915)
  • John Hay (d. 1925)
  • Frank Liddell, Australian politician (d. 1939)
  • Harry Taylor, U (d. 1930)
• June 27

May Irwin born 27 June

• • May Irwin, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1938)
  • J. A. Loggie, American politician (d. 1936)
  • Johann Puch (d. 1914)
  • Ernest Leopold Sichel, Painter (d. 1941)
  • John Simpkins, American politician (d. 1898)
• June 28
  • Peter of Krutitsy, Russian Orthodox bishop and martyr (d. 1937)
  • Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel, German gynaecologist (d. 1909)
  • Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle, British MP (d. 1937)
• June 29

William Johnston Tupper born 29 June

• • August Hjelt, Finnish politician (d. 1919)
  • Gustav Imroth, South African businessman (d. 1948)
  • Adolf Loewy, German physiologist (d. 1937)
  • William Johnston Tupper, politician and office holder in Manitoba (d. 1947)
• June 30
  • Tug Arundel, American baseball player (d. 1912)
  • Charles Hobhouse (d. 1941)
  • John Hulme, Cricketer (d. 1940)

July

• July 1

Besim Ömer Akalın born 1 July

• • Besim Ömer Akalın, Physician (d. 1940)
  • Henri Lammens, Orientalist historian and Jesuit (d. 1937)
  • George W. Storter, Jr., trader and founder of Everglades City (d. 1931)
  • Fred Townsend, American politician (d. 1918)
  • David White (d. 1935)
• July 2

William Henry Bragg born 2 July

• • William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
  • Christopher Cradock, British admiral (d. 1914)
  • Alicia O'Shea Petersen (d. 1923)
  • Fiske Warren, American philanthropist (d. 1938)
• July 3
  • Theodor Aaset, Politician (d. 1914)
  • Tristram T. Hyde, mayor of Charleston (d. 1931)
  • Friedrich Koch, German composer, cellist and teacher (d. 1927)
  • James E. Plew, Chicago businessman (d. 1938)
  • Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 3rd Baronet, British Baronet (d. 1929)
• July 4
  • Walter L. Fisher (d. 1935)
  • William Henry Hunt Gleason, American politician (d. 1949)
• July 5
  • Horatio Caro, British chess player (d. 1920)
  • Alice Underwood Fitch, American painter (d. 1936)
  • George Nuttall, British bacteriologist (d. 1937)
• July 7
  • Charles Boxshall, Australian-born New Zealand wicket-keeper who played first-class cricket (d. 1924)
  • Ludwig Fulda, German playwright and a poet with a strong social commitment (d. 1939)
• July 8
  • Ella Reeve Bloor, American labor organizer and long-time activist in the socialist and communist movements (d. 1951)
  • William Coverdale, English County cricketer (d. 1934)
  • Sarah Ann Henley, British bartender (d. 1948)
• July 9
  • Albert Hilton, English cricketer (d. 1935)
  • Isidore Konti, Vienna-born (of Hungarian parents) sculptor (d. 1938)
• July 10
  • Samuel J. Foley, American politician from New York (d. 1922)
  • Theodore Marburg, American jurist (d. 1946)
  • Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (d. 1946)
  • Walter I. Smith, United States federal judge (d. 1922)
• July 11
  • Liza Lehmann, English operatic soprano and composer (d. 1918)
  • Charles Frederick Menninger, American physician (d. 1952)
• July 12 – James McKay (d. 1931)
• July 13

George E. Smith (gambler) born 13 July

• • Samuel David Alexander, Croatian Jewish industrialist (d. 1943)
  • Mary Foy, American librarian (d. 1962)
  • Georg Lasson, German theologian (d. 1932)
  • Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia, Russian grand duke (d. 1879)
  • George E. Smith, American gambler (d. 1905)
• July 14

Gustav Klimt born 14 July

Florence Bascom born 14 July

• • Florence Bascom, Geologist (d. 1945)
  • Willie Campbell, Professional golfer (d. 1900)
  • Law Daniels, American baseball player (d. 1929)
  • Albert Keates, British organ builder (d. 1949)
  • Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist (d. 1918)
  • Henri Vanwaetermeulen, French general (d. 1918)
  • James Cromar Watt, Scottish architect (d. 1940)
  • Heinrich Zimmern, Assyriologist (d. 1931)
• July 15

Ernest Troubridge born 15 July

• • Richard Eckermann, German admiral (d. 1916)
  • Frank Putnam Flint, politician and banker (d. 1929)
  • James Nicholas Kehoe, Member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky (d. 1945)
  • Edwin F. Leonard, American politician (d. 1931)
  • Percy de Paravicini, English footballer (d. 1921)
  • Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath (d. 1946)
  • Ernest Troubridge, Royal Navy officer during the First World War (d. 1926)
• July 16

Ida B. Wells born 16 July

• • Ada Blanche (d. 1953)
  • George Kessler, German American pioneer city planner and landscape architect (d. 1923)
  • Ida B. Wells, American journalist, suffragist, and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931)
  • Jesse F. West, American politician (d. 1929)
• July 17

Dev Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana born 17 July

• • Oscar Levertin, Swedish poet (d. 1906)
  • Dev Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana (d. 1914)
  • Herbert Smith, British politician (d. 1938)
  • Konrad Wagner, Physician (d. 1948)
• July 18
  • Harry Tate, English cricketer (d. 1949)
  • Alfred Burke Thompson, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
  • John Lee Wortham, American businessman and politician (d. 1924)
• July 19
  • H. Cooper Cliffe, British stage and screen actor (d. 1939)
  • Henry Jones, Australian businessman (d. 1926)
• July 20

William Corcoran Eustis born 20 July

• • Fyodor Braun, German academic (d. 1942)
  • Paul Bujor, Romanian zoologist who specialized in animal morphology (d. 1952)
  • William Corcoran Eustis, United States Army officer (d. 1921)
  • Sidney Rowlatt, English barrister and judge (d. 1945)
• July 21
  • John Wycliffe Black, British politician (d. 1951)
  • Willie Kavanaugh Hocker, Designer of the Flag of Arkansas (d. 1944)
• July 22

Cosmo Duff-Gordon born 22 July

• • Thomas Ball Barratt, Norwegian pastor (d. 1940)
  • Red Bittmann, American baseball player (d. 1929)
  • Cosmo Duff-Gordon (d. 1931)
  • Gus Elen, British singer (d. 1940)
  • Warren Hale, Cricketer (d. 1934)
  • Lucien Poincaré, French physicist (d. 1920)
• July 23
  • Frederick W. Sims, American maypr (d. 1925)
  • Timothy Sullivan, New York politician who controlled Manhattan's Bowery (d. 1913)
  • Benjamin Zimmerman, Canadian businessman (d. 1923)
• July 24
  • James Percy FitzPatrick, South African businessman and writer (d. 1931)
  • W. H. Whiting, Jr., American academic administrator (d. 1949)
• July 25
  • Norma Borthwick, British artist and writer and an Irish language activist (d. 1934)
  • Joseph Marshall, English cricketer (d. 1913)
  • James Tolmie (d. 1939)
• July 26

Miguel Lillo born 26 July

• • Edwin Burr Babbitt, United States general (d. 1939)
  • William Bleasdell Cameron (d. 1951)
  • George B. Cortelyou, American Presidential Cabinet secretary (d. 1940)
  • John Hinds, British politician (d. 1928)
  • Vasil Kanchov, Bulgarian historian (d. 1902)
  • Miguel Lillo, Argentine naturalist and professor (d. 1931)
• July 27
  • T. C. Van Eaton, American politician (d. 1951)
  • Joan Mary Fry, Quaker Social Reformer and relief worker (d. 1955)
  • Henry Alfred Pegram, British artist (d. 1937)
  • Franz Albert Seyn (d. 1918)
  • Arthur Vicars, English-born genealogist and heraldic expert who lived in Ireland (d. 1921)
• July 28
  • John Ford, American politician (d. 1941)
  • Charles Hoar, Cricketer (d. 1913)
  • Fritz Syberg, Painter, illustrator (d. 1939)
• July 29

Stuart Peter Rolt born 29 July

• • Eduard Brückner, Austrian scientist (d. 1927)
  • Alexandru Ionescu, Labour activist (d. 1929)
  • Mona McBurney, Pianist and composer (d. 1932)
  • Robert Lewis Reid, American Impressionist painter and muralist (d. 1929)
  • Stuart Peter Rolt, British Army general (d. 1933)
• July 30
  • A.R. Pardington, Civil engineer (d. 1915)
  • Božena Viková-Kunětická, Czech nationalist politician (d. 1934)
• July 31
  • James Brown, English footballer (d. 1922)
  • Augustus Clark, Cricketer (d. 1928)
  • George Edward Mannering, Banker, mountaineer, writer (d. 1947)
  • Robert Naumann, American farmer (d. 1926)
  • Alan Rotherham, English rugby union player (d. 1898)

August

• August 1
  • Hermann Brunn, German mathematician (d. 1939)
  • John Drughorn, British businessman (d. 1943)
  • M. R. James (d. 1936)
• August 2
  • William Ashbie Hawkins, American lawyer (d. 1941)
  • Arthur Headlam, British bishop (d. 1947)
  • Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian bureaucrat (d. 1947)
• August 3 – Samuel Pethebridge, Australian general (d. 1918)
• August 4

Gustav von Seyffertitz born 4 August

• • Albert Gran, Norwegian born (d. 1932)
  • John Keppie, Scottish architect (d. 1945)
  • John Jeremiah Lawler, Catholic bishop (d. 1948)
  • George Lawton, English footballer (d. 1930)
  • Gustav von Seyffertitz, German film actor and director (d. 1943)
  • Dharma Man Tuladhar (d. 1938)
• August 5

Joseph Merrick born 5 August

• • Andrew William Barton, British politician (d. 1957)
  • Marcel Baschet, Portrait painter (d. 1941)
  • Lucy Everest Boole, British chemist (d. 1904)
  • Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man", English sufferer from deformities (d. 1890)
  • Robert Mills-Roberts, Footballer & surgeon (d. 1935)
  • Knud Arne Petersen, Danish architect (d. 1943)
• August 6

Elizabeth Robins born 6 August

• • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (d. 1932)
  • Armand Rassenfosse, Belgian artist (d. 1934)
  • Marcus Ravenswaaij, Dutch sport shooter (d. 1919)
  • Elizabeth Robins, actress (d. 1952)
• August 7

Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. born 7 August

• • Paul Auguste Danguy, French botanist (d. 1942)
  • Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., Photographer (d. 1932)
  • Jim Gray, American baseball player (d. 1938)
  • Henri Le Sidaner, French painter (d. 1939)
  • William Walton, English cricketer (d. 1925)
• August 8

Edward Kent, Jr. born 8 August

• • Edward Kent, Jr., American jurist (d. 1916)
  • Hermann Lemp, Electrical engineer (d. 1954)
  • Mary Virginia Cook Parrish, American activist (d. 1945)
  • William Reynolds-Stephens, British artist (d. 1943)
• August 9
  • Hubert Burge, British bishop (d. 1925)
  • Gangadhar Meher, Indian writer (d. 1924)
  • James Menzies, Australian politician representing Lowan (d. 1945)
  • David Philipson, American Reform rabbi (d. 1949)
  • Blamire Young, English artist (d. 1935)
• August 10

James Wallace Conant born 10 August

• • Jørgen Brunchorst, Norwegian natural scientist (d. 1917)
  • James Wallace Conant, American businessman (d. 1906)
  • William Hussey, American astronomer (d. 1926)
  • Ernst R. Kroeger, American composer (d. 1934)
  • Charles Margrett, Cricketer (d. 1941)
  • Victor Félix Schiffner, Austrian bryologist (d. 1944)
• August 11

David Henderson (British Army officer) born 11 August

• • David Henderson (d. 1921)
  • Ivan Ivanov, Russian mathematician (d. 1939)
  • Carrie Jacobs-Bond, American singer (d. 1946)
  • Nurse Maude, Hospital matron, district nurse, social worker (d. 1935)
• August 12

Julius Rosenwald born 12 August

• • Martin Brendel, German astronomer (d. 1939)
  • Josef Alois Kessler, Catholic bishop (d. 1933)
  • John C. Lodge, influential politician from Detroit (d. 1950)
  • Jules Richard, French mathematician (d. 1956)
  • Julius Rosenwald, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1932)
  • James Cranswick Tory, Canadian politician (d. 1944)
• August 13
  • Cassiano Conzatti (d. 1951)
  • Basil Peto, British politician (d. 1945)
• August 14
  • Frank Broadstreet Carvell, Canadian politician (d. 1924)
  • Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant, Australian academic (d. 1936)
• August 15
  • William Henry Kelson, British doctor (d. 1940)
  • Ivar Lantto, Finnish schoolteacher (d. 1938)
  • Fernanda Nissen, Norwegian politician and journalist (d. 1920)
• August 16

Amos Alonzo Stagg born 16 August

• • Dora Bright, English composer and pianist (d. 1951)
  • Paul Aloysius Kenna (d. 1915)
  • James McLachlan, Australian politician (d. 1938)
  • Francis Pember, Cricketer (d. 1954)
  • Ludwig Hermann Plate, German zoologist (d. 1937)
  • Amos Alonzo Stagg, American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports (d. 1965)
• August 17 – Sterling P. Strong, American politician (d. 1936)
• August 18
  • Nicholas Grattan-Doyle, British politician (d. 1941)
  • Carl-Emil Johansson, Olympic tug of war competitor (d. 1938)
  • Harry Koons, Major League Baseball third baseman (d. 1932)
  • Henry Lapp, American cabinetmaker (d. 1904)
  • Frederick Cayley Robinson, British artist (d. 1927)
  • Thomas Townley, Canadian lawyer and the eighth Mayor of Vancouver (d. 1935)
• August 19 – C. V. Hartman, Swedish botanist and anthropologist (d. 1941)
• August 20

Omar Mukhtar born 20 August

• • Jesse Carleton, Amateur golfer (d. 1921)
  • Bertram Cubitt, British civil servant (d. 1942)
  • John S. McGroarty, American politician (d. 1944)
  • Omar Mukhtar (d. 1931)
  • Paul Stäckel, German mathematician (d. 1919)
• August 21

Burr McIntosh born 21 August

• • Louis-Philippe Brodeur, Canadian journalist (d. 1924)
  • Victor de Cottens, French playwright and director (d. 1956)
  • Burr McIntosh (d. 1942)
  • Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (d. 1911)
  • James Lorrain Smith, British pathologist (d. 1931)
• August 22
  • Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
  • Hjalmar von Sydow, Swedish politician (d. 1932)
  • Ed Yewell, American baseball player (d. 1940)
• August 23
  • Frederic Geeson, English cricketer (d. 1920)
  • Jan Kotrč, Czech chess master (d. 1943)
• August 24

Lajos Méhelÿ born 24 August

• • Zonia Baber, geologist and geographer (d. 1955)
  • Leland Lewis Duncan, British antiquarian (d. 1923)
  • Samuel A. Eliot, American Unitarian minister (d. 1950)
  • David H. Jarvis, United States Revenue Cutter Service officer (d. 1911)
  • Lajos Méhelÿ, Hungarian zoologist (d. 1953)
  • Arthur Turner, korean bishop (d. 1910)
• August 25
  • Albert Derrick, Australian philatelist (d. 1931)
  • Steve Fairbairn, rower and an influential rowing coach at Jesus College Boat Club (d. 1938)
  • Hank Simon, American baseball player (d. 1925)
• August 26
  • Marion Bidder, English physiologist and one of the first women to do independent research in Cambridge (d. 1932)
  • Herbert Booth, English-born Salvationist, third son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
  • Alfred Gudeman, American-German classical scholar (d. 1942)
  • Theodor Siebs, German linguist (d. 1941)
• August 27
  • James Bilsborrow, Catholic bishop (d. 1931)
  • William M. K. Olcott, American politician and lawyer (d. 1933)
• August 28 – Roberto Marcolongo, Italian mathematician (d. 1943)
• August 29

Andrew Fisher born 29 August

• • James Joseph Butler, American politician (d. 1917)
  • William Cookson, Indian-born English cricketer who played for Somerset (d. 1922)
  • Andrew Fisher, Scottish-born fifth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
  • S. M. Holden, British journalist and political activist (d. 1943)
  • Fred Huntley, Actor, Film director (d. 1931)
  • David Kldiashvili, Georgian writer (d. 1931)
  • Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
  • Cyrus C. Yawkey, American businessman and politician (d. 1943)
• August 30
  • John Brodie, English footballer (d. 1925)
  • Lawrence C. Phipps, United States Senator representing Colorado from 1919 until 1931 (d. 1958)
  • C. M. Ridding, Sanskrit scholar (d. 1941)
• August 31
  • Hector Caron, Canadian politician (d. 1937)
  • William Gray, manufacturer and political figure in Ontario (d. 1916)

September

• September 1
  • Adolphe Appia (d. 1928)
  • Radó von Kövesligethy, Hungarian physicist (d. 1934)
  • Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse, Canadian circus owner (d. 1931)
• September 2

Frederick Buscombe born 2 September

• • Frederick Buscombe, 11th Mayor of Vancouver (d. 1938)
  • Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (d. 1921)
  • Riley Hatch, Silent film actor (d. 1925)
  • Harry van Heerden, South African politician (d. 1933)
  • Franjo Krežma (d. 1881)
  • Stanisław Narutowicz (d. 1932)
  • William Shipway, Australian politician (d. 1925)
• September 3
  • Ira Aten, American sheriff (d. 1953)
  • Moses Hyamson, British rabbi (d. 1949)
  • Florence Maybrick, American murderer (d. 1941)
• September 4
  • John de Mestre Hutchison, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1932)
  • Hermann Winnefeld, German archaeologist (d. 1918)
• September 5

• • Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston, Academic administrator, biographer, and clergyman (d. 1942)
  • Denis St. George Daly, Polo player (d. 1942)
  • Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1935)
  • Addison T. Smith, American politician (d. 1956)
• September 6
  • G. Aubrey Goodman, Malaysian judge (d. 1921)
  • John Green, British agriculturalist (d. 1953)
  • Guyon Purchas, Australian architect (d. 1940)
• September 7

Edgar Speyer born 7 September

• • Violet Cameron, English actress (d. 1919)
  • Ed Daily, American baseball player (d. 1891)
  • Benno Jacob, German rabbi (d. 1945)
  • Mike McDermott, American baseball player (d. 1943)
  • Rudolf Much, Austrian academic (d. 1936)
  • David Shanahan (d. 1936)
  • Edgar Speyer, British-American financier and philanthropist (d. 1932)
• September 8

Horace Kephart born 8 September

• • Mariano Benlliure, Spanish artist (d. 1947)
  • Gordon C. Greene, Steamship captain (d. 1927)
  • Célestin Hennion, French head of the Prefecture of Police (d. 1915)
  • Gaillard Hunt, American writer (d. 1924)
  • Horace Kephart, American writer (d. 1931)
  • Venkata Ranga Rao, indian knight (d. 1921)
  • Cecil Wilson, British politician (d. 1945)
• September 9
  • Charles Dobson, English footballer (d. 1939)
  • Charles Fey, American inventor (d. 1944)
  • Albert Piddington, shortest serving Justice of the High Court of Australia (d. 1945)
• September 10
  • Ivane Andronikashvili (d. 1947)
  • Olof Hanson, American architect (d. 1933)
  • Christopher de Paus, papal count (d. 1943)
• September 11

Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy born 11 September

Hawley Harvey Crippen born 11 September

• • Frank Beal, American actor and film director of the silent film era (d. 1934)
  • Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (d. 1938)
  • Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British general, 12th Governor General of Canada (d. 1935)
  • Hawley Harvey Crippen (d. 1910)
  • Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, Dutch-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1940)
  • Joseph Gonzales, politician and American businessman (d. 1940)
  • Augustin Henninghaus, German missionary and bishop (d. 1939)
  • O. Henry, born William Sydney Porter, American short-story writer (d. 1910)
  • John Maden, British politician (d. 1920)
• September 12

Carl Eytel born 12 September

• • Carl Eytel, German American artist, painted and drew desert subjects in the American Southwest (d. 1925)
  • William Holmes (d. 1917)
  • Charles Melliss (d. 1936)
  • Frank Hamilton Short, American lawyer (d. 1920)
• September 13 – Charles S. Dana, American politician (d. 1939)
• September 14
  • Wilfred Bolton, English rugby union player (d. 1930)
  • Eugen Ehrlich, Austrian legal scholar and sociologist of law (d. 1922)
  • Dawes Hicks, British philosopher (d. 1941)
  • Giulio Salvadori, Italian poet (d. 1928)
  • A. G. Stephen, Scottish banker (d. 1924)
• September 15
  • Jack Brennan, American baseball player (d. 1914)
  • Henry Chesson, Australian politician (d. 1948)
  • Elmer Cleveland, American baseball player (d. 1913)
  • Claude Farrer, British tennis player (d. 1890)
  • Edmund Otis Hovey, American geologist (d. 1924)
  • Friedrich von Lindequist, German colonial official (d. 1945)
• September 16

Selden P. Spencer born 16 September

• • Félix Dubois, French journalist and explorer (d. 1945)
  • Edwin Mortimer Hopkins, university professor and American football coach (d. 1946)
  • Thomas Baker Jones, Welsh rugby union player (d. 1959)
  • Selden P. Spencer, American politician (d. 1925)
  • John Taiaroa (d. 1907)
• September 17

Kenneth Burn born 17 September

• • Anna Bugge, Norwegian feminist (d. 1928)
  • Kenneth Burn (d. 1956)
  • Samuel Jay Crumbine, Public health pioneer (d. 1954)
  • John Garland (d. 1921)
  • Ernest Henty, politician (d. 1895)
  • Jean de Madre, Polo player (d. 1934)
• September 18

George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds born 18 September

• • Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1933)
  • William Elliot Cairnes, British officer and military writer (d. 1902)
  • Leonard Darlot, Australian politician (d. 1943)
  • George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds, British politician (d. 1927)
• September 19

Arvid Lindman born 19 September

• • Carl Apstein, German zoologist (d. 1950)
  • Juliusz Bursche, Polish bishop (d. 1942)
  • Arvid Lindman, Swedish admiral, industrialist, and politician (d. 1936)
  • Lefty Marr, American baseball player (d. 1912)
  • Adeline De Walt Reynolds, American character actress who made her film debut at the age of 79 (1941) (d. 1961)
• September 20
  • George P. B. Alderman, Architect (d. 1929)
  • Louis Dalton, Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician (d. 1945)
  • Eustaquio Ilundáin y Esteban, Catholic cardinal (d. 1937)
  • Bo Sweeney, United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior (d. 1917)
  • Arnoldo Zocchi, noted Italian sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century (d. 1940)
• September 21

Johan Castberg born 21 September

• • Johan Castberg, Norwegian jurist and politician best known for representing the Radical People's Party (d. 1926)
  • Maurice Chabas, French painter (d. 1947)
  • Charles Dowse, Irish bishop (d. 1934)
  • Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet (d. 1935)
  • James E. Talmage, English chemist and geologist (d. 1933)
• September 22
  • Frank Cooke, New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago and Nelson (d. 1933)
  • Bob Keating, American baseball player (d. 1922)
  • Alex Moffat, American football player (d. 1914)
• September 23

Kirke La Shelle born 23 September

• • Denis Auguste Duchêne, French general (d. 1950)
  • Marcus C. Lisle, American politician (d. 1894)
  • Arthur Neal, British politician (d. 1933)
  • Kirke La Shelle, American playwright and theatrical producer (d. 1905)
• September 24

Harry Ell born 24 September

Júlia Lopes de Almeida born 24 September

• • Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Brazilian writer (d. 1934)
  • Olof Bergqvist, Swedish bishop (d. 1940)
  • Cincinnatus Fabian D'Abreo, Pakistani politician (d. 1929)
  • Harry Ell, New Zealand politician (d. 1934)
  • Gertrude Kingston, British actor (d. 1937)
  • Winifred Edgerton Merrill, American mathematician (d. 1951)
  • William Sidebottom, Australian cricketer (d. 1948)
  • Alfred Ford Skinner, politician from the U (d. 1931)
  • Arnt Severin Ulstrup, Norwegian politician (d. 1922)
• September 25
  • Léon Boëllmann, French composer of Alsatian origin (d. 1897)
  • William J. Burke, American politician and businessman (d. 1925)
  • Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
• September 26
  • Victor Delbos, French historian and philosopher (d. 1916)
  • Charles Heggie, Scottish footballer (d. 1925)
  • John Bayne Maclean, Canadian publisher (d. 1950)
  • George A. Stewart, American football coach (d. 1894)
• September 27

Francis Adams (writer) born 27 September

• • Francis Adams (d. 1893)
  • Michael F. Blenski, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (d. 1932)
  • Louis Botha, Boer general and first Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1919)
  • Edward Manville, Electrical engineer (d. 1933)
  • Paul Marchal, French entomologist (d. 1942)
  • Miguel Ángel de Quevedo, Mexican architect (d. 1946)
  • Thomas L. Rubey, American politician (d. 1928)
• September 28
  • Philander Claxton, American educator (d. 1957)
  • W. T. Goodge, writer (d. 1909)
  • Violet Hunt, British author and literary hostess (d. 1942)
• September 29

Ed Morris (1880s pitcher) born 29 September

• • Paul Bonwit, American businessman (d. 1939)
  • Jack Barnato Joel, British businessman (d. 1940)
  • Ed Morris, American baseball player (d. 1937)
  • John Smith Murdoch (d. 1945)
  • Kaew Nawarat, 36th and last King of Lanna and Prince Ruler of Chiang Mai (d. 1939)
  • Fred Russell (d. 1957)
• September 30 – Wilton Lackaye, American actor (d. 1932)

October

• October 1
  • Marie Henri Andoyer, Astronomer and mathematician (d. 1929)
  • Charles Reynolds Brown, American writer (d. 1950)
  • R. E. Burt, American mayor (d. 1943)
  • Esther Boise Van Deman, leading archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (d. 1937)
  • Francis Hill, English cricketer (d. 1935)
• October 2

Frank Sandford born 2 October

• • Justus D. Barnes, American actor (d. 1946)
  • Launcelot Kiggell, British Army general (d. 1954)
  • Frank Sandford, American religious leader (d. 1948)
  • Marty Sullivan, American baseball player (d. 1894)
• October 3

Andrew Jackson Montague born 3 October

• • Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
  • Andrew Jackson Montague, American politician from Virginia (d. 1937)
  • Cipriano Muñoz, 2nd Count of la Viñaza, Spanish diplomat (d. 1933)
  • William Irvin Swoope, American politician (d. 1930)
• October 4

Sebastian Finsterwalder born 4 October

• • Sebastian Finsterwalder, Bavarian mathematician and surveyor (d. 1951)
  • Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Dutch artist (d. 1925)
  • Nripendra Narayan (d. 1911)
  • Edward Stratemeyer, American publisher and writer of children's fiction (d. 1930)
• October 5
  • Thomas Henry Mahy, Guernsey poet (d. 1936)
  • Wilhelm Solf, German scholar (d. 1936)
• October 6
  • Joseph Weldon Bailey, United States Senator (d. 1929)
  • Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and United States Senator from Indiana (d. 1927)
  • Duncan E. McKinlay, American politician (d. 1914)
• October 7
  • Harden Bennion, American politician (d. 1939)
  • Loren E. Wheeler, American politician (d. 1932)
• October 8
  • Charlie Manlove, American baseball player (d. 1952)
  • Emil von Sauer (d. 1942)
  • J. C. Tolmie, Canadian politician (d. 1938)
• October 9

Fatma Aliye Topuz born 9 October

• • Powhatan Henry Clarke, United States Army officer and Indian Wars Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1893)
  • Henry L. Myers, American politician (d. 1943)
  • John M. Sell, Housepainter, interior decorator, Socialist legislator (d. 1930)
  • Fatma Aliye Topuz, Turkish writer (d. 1936)
• October 10
  • Dennis Driscoll, American baseball player (d. 1901)
  • Arthur De Greef, Belgian pianist and composer (d. 1940)
  • Ada Leverson, British writer, witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle, friend of Oscar Wilde (d. 1933)
  • Émile Mayrisch, Luxembourgian industrialist (d. 1928)
  • Peter Muldoon, Catholic bishop (d. 1927)
  • Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld, French painter (d. 1960)
  • Julius Tröger, German chemist (d. 1942)
  • John G. Wallenmeier, Jr., American politician (d. 1917)
• October 11
  • J. T. Grein, British impresario (d. 1935)
  • Fleetwood Varley, Sport shooter (d. 1936)
• October 12

Mary Kingsley born 12 October

• • Theodor Boveri, German biologist (d. 1915)
  • Mary Kingsley, English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer throughout West Africa (d. 1900)
  • John F. Mitchell (d. 1943)
  • Ferdinand Pfohl, German composer (d. 1949)
• October 13

Herman McInnes born 13 October

• • Abang Haji Abdillah, Sarawak politician (d. 1946)
  • Richard James Horatio Gottheil, American Semitic scholar (d. 1936)
  • William John Hanna, Canadian politician (d. 1919)
  • Herman McInnes, Canadian politician (d. 1923)
• October 14
  • Samuel Cunningham, British politician (d. 1946)
  • Alexander Guchkov, Russian politician (d. 1936)
• October 15
  • Conrad Ansorge, German musician (d. 1930)
  • Enrico Clerici, Italian mineralogist geologist (d. 1938)
  • Christian Mølsted, Painter (d. 1930)
• October 16
  • Hermann von Gottschall, German chess player (d. 1933)
  • Anton Kraabel, North Dakota Republican Party politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (d. 1934)
• October 17
  • Herbert Bealey Adshead, Canadian politician (d. 1932)
  • Sophie Tatum LaCroix, designer and author (d. 1949)
• October 18
  • Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952)
  • Henry Leaf, British racquets player (d. 1931)
• October 19

Auguste and Louis Lumière born 19 October

• • Bertram Tracy Clayton, American soldier and politician (d. 1918)
  • Maurice Janin, French general (since April 20 (d. 1946)
  • Auguste and Louis Lumière (d. 1948)
  • Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
  • Edhem Mulabdić, Bosniak writer (d. 1954)
  • Marcel Sembat, French politician (d. 1922)
• October 20

Maud Nathan born 20 October

• • Thomas Hastie Bryce, British anatomist (d. 1946)
  • Friedrich Meinecke, German historian (d. 1954)
  • Maud Nathan, American activist (d. 1946)
  • Herbert Nield, British politician (d. 1932)
  • Benjamin Bowditch Thayer, vice president of Anaconda Copper and served on the Naval Consulting Board (d. 1933)
• October 21

Lajos Hegyeshalmi born 21 October

• • John Findlay (d. 1929)
  • Lajos Hegyeshalmi, Hungarian politician (d. 1925)
  • Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton, British politician (d. 1937)
  • Donald Murray, British politician (d. 1923)
  • Folke Zettervall, Swedish architect (d. 1955)
• October 22
  • James McAndrews, American politician (d. 1942)
  • Sándor Popovics, Hungarian politician (d. 1935)
• October 23
  • Domício da Gama, Brazilian journalist and diplomat (d. 1925)
  • João Duarte de Sousa, Portuguese historian (d. 1909)
• October 24 – Abram W. Foote, Vermont businessman and politician (d. 1941)
• October 25
  • Giuseppe Bastianelli, Italian scientist (d. 1959)
  • Josiah Mills, English cricketer (d. 1929)
  • Percival Turnbull, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1937)
• October 26

Hilma af Klint born 26 October

• • David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans (d. 1948)
  • Brinsley Hall, Australian politician (d. 1940)
  • Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter (d. 1944)
  • Nikolay Leontiev, Russian explorer (d. 1910)
  • Thomas J. Preston, Jr., American Professor of Archeology at Princeton University (d. 1955)
  • Edmond Savard, Canadian politician (d. 1925)
• October 27 – Hugh Evan-Thomas, British admiral (d. 1928)
• October 28
  • Pekka Ahmavaara, Finnish bank director and politician (d. 1929)
  • Philip Martineau, English cricketer (d. 1944)
• October 29

Charles S. Farnsworth born 29 October

• • Herbert Bainbridge, English cricketer (d. 1940)
  • Vansittart Bowater, British politician (d. 1938)
  • Charles S. Farnsworth, United States Army general (d. 1955)
  • Wilfred Miller Vincent Koch, British surgeon and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (d. 1939)
  • John Bernard O'Hara, Australian poet (d. 1927)
• October 30
  • Anton Funtek, Poet, writer, editor and translator (d. 1932)
  • Herbert Page, first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire (d. 1927)
  • Henry Paulet, 16th Marquess of Winchester, peer and business man (d. 1962)
• October 31
  • Mary Angela Dickens, British novelist and journalist of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras (d. 1948)
  • Hardie Henderson, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1903)
  • Gerald Horsley, British architect (d. 1917)

November

• November 1
  • Endre Hadik-Barkóczy, Hungarian politician (d. 1931)
  • Emil Kolben, Entrepreneur (d. 1943)
  • Feliks Koneczny (d. 1949)
  • Edward McCormick, English cricketer active from 1880 to 1890 who played for Sussex (d. 1941)
  • Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1941)
• November 2 – Ondřej Přikryl, Czech and Moravian politician (d. 1936)
• November 3
  • Orren D. Casselman, Canadian politician (d. 1950)
  • Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)
  • Charles Mercer Snelling, President of the University of Georgia (d. 1939)
• November 4

Jean Blewett born 4 November

• • Jean Blewett, Canadian writer (d. 1934)
  • Annie McVicar, Community worker, local politician (d. 1954)
  • Eden Phillpotts, English author (d. 1960)
  • Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor (d. 1932)
  • Jón Stefánsson, Icelandic writer and academic (d. 1952)
  • István Thomán, Hungarian musician (d. 1940)
• November 5
  • Alexandre Bigot, French artist (d. 1927)
  • Leonardo Castellanos y Castellanos, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1912)
  • Thomas William Heney, Australian writer (d. 1928)
  • Frederick Hickford, Australian politician (d. 1929)
  • William Horwood, Canadian politician (d. 1945)
  • Jim McElroy, Major League Baseball player (d. 1889)
  • Patrick Stirling, English footballer (d. 1925)
• November 6
  • Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson, British politician (d. 1936)
  • Edward Bulfin, British Army General (d. 1939)
• November 7

Louis Svećenski born 7 November

• • Masajiro Furuya, Banker and businessperson (d. 1938)
  • Matthew Killilea, American lawyer and politician (d. 1902)
  • Frederick Potbury, English cricketer (d. 1943)
  • Louis Svećenski, Croatian American violinist (d. 1926)
  • Herbert George Welch, American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (d. 1969)
• November 8
  • Ed Boyce, American labor leader (d. 1941)
  • Andrés Héctor Carvallo (d. 1934)
  • Signe Hornborg, Architect (d. 1916)
  • Napoléon-Pierre Tanguay, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
• November 9
  • Alphonso Carinci, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1963)
  • Gigo Gabashvili, Painter and educator from Georgia (country) (d. 1936)
• November 10
  • Chester Hardy Aldrich, American politician (d. 1924)
  • Hugh Bennett, English cricketer (d. 1943)
  • John Bollons (d. 1929)
  • Konstantin Bozveliev, Bulgarian politician (d. 1951)
  • Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton, British politician (d. 1945)
  • Abram Bowman Kolb, American lyricist (d. 1925)
  • Joseph A. McQueen, Canadian politician (d. 1918)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt, German entomologist (d. 1936)
  • William Peterfield Trent, professor of English literature at Columbia University (d. 1939)
  • Adolf Wallenberg, German internist and neurologist (d. 1949)
• November 11
  • Theodore DuBose Bratton, American bishop (d. 1944)
  • Rudolf Koechlin, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1939)
  • Emmanuel de Margerie, French geographer (d. 1953)
  • William Mason, 1st Baron Blackford, British politician and public servant (d. 1947)
• November 12

Frank Burr Mallory born 12 November

• • Vasile Goldiș, Romanian politician (d. 1934)
  • Frank Burr Mallory, American pathologist (d. 1941)
  • Georg F.L. Sarauw, Swedish botanist and archaeologist (d. 1928)
  • Theodor Ziehen, German neurologist (d. 1950)
• November 13
  • Arcadio Maxilom, Filipino teacher and hero of the Philippine Revolution (d. 1924)
  • Pete Meegan, Major League Baseball player (d. 1905)
  • Podge Weihe, American baseball player (d. 1914)
• November 14

Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff born 14 November

• • Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German politician and the ambassador to the United States (d. 1939)
  • František Dvořák, Czech painter (d. 1927)
  • Charles Hall Grandgent, American academic (d. 1939)
  • George Washington Vanderbilt II, art collector and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family (d. 1914)
• November 15

Gerhart Hauptmann born 15 November

• • Adolf Bartels, German writer (d. 1945)
  • Maxwell Evarts (d. 1913)
  • Leonard Benjamin Franklin, British politician (d. 1944)
  • Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)
  • Jim Long, American baseball player (d. 1932)
  • Delbert K. Smith, American farmer and politician (d. 1905)
  • William Codman Sturgis, American mycologist (d. 1942)
• November 16
  • Edith Ogden Harrison, American writer (d. 1955)
  • Gus C. Henderson, Influential African-American (d. 1915)
  • David Rocyn-Jones, British rugby union official (d. 1953)
• November 17

Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright born 17 November

• • Aylmer Haldane, British Army general (d. 1950)
  • Ernest Hunter, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (d. 1944)
  • Ella E. McBride, American photographer (d. 1965)
  • Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, Librarian (d. 1940)
• November 18
  • Ernest Choquette, Canadian politician and author (d. 1941)
  • John M. Moore, American rancher and statesman from Texas, served in the United States House of Representatives (d. 1940)
  • Charlie Shaw, Footballer (d. 1931)
  • James Edward Sullivan, American sports official of Irish descent (d. 1914)
  • Alfred Edwin Winter, Australian politician who represented Wallaroo for the United Labor Party (d. 1939)
  • George Wood, English county cricketer (d. 1948)
• November 19

Billy Sunday born 19 November

• • Manuel Earnshaw, Filipino politician (d. 1936)
  • Anna de Koven, American writer (d. 1953)
  • Robert Parkyn, Canadian politician (d. 1939)
  • George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, British Earl (d. 1947)
  • Billy Sunday, American baseball player, evangelist and prohibitionist (d. 1935)
• November 20

Dan Casey born 20 November

• • Dan Casey, American baseball player (d. 1943)
  • Walter Norris Congreve (d. 1927)
  • Carl Godlewski, circus clown (d. 1949)
  • Georges Palante, French sociologist (d. 1925)
  • Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (d. 1939)
• November 21 – Galen L. Stone, American financier and philanthropist (d. 1926)
• November 22
  • Edward Benjamin Cushing, engineer and academic administrator (d. 1924)
  • Arthur Stewart Eve, British physicist (d. 1948)
  • Consuelo Fould, French painter (d. 1927)
  • Warwick Goble, British artist (d. 1943)
• November 23

Théo van Rysselberghe born 23 November

Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet born 23 November

• • Alexander P. Anderson, American botanist and breakfast cereal inventor (d. 1943)
  • Pierre Augustin Dangeard, French botanist and mycologist (d. 1947)
  • Ernest Guglielminetti, Swiss physician (d. 1943)
  • Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet (d. 1932)
  • Théo van Rysselberghe, Belgian neo-impressionist painter (d. 1926)
  • William E. Tou Velle, American politician (d. 1951)
  • Salvador Viniegra, Spanish painter (d. 1915)
  • Alberto Williams, Argentine composer of classical music (d. 1952)
• November 24

Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen born 24 November

• • Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen, Bavarian general (d. 1953)
  • Charles Godfrey, English cricketer (d. 1941)
  • Bernhard Stavenhagen, German pianist (d. 1914)
  • Francis Seymour Stevenson, British politician (d. 1938)
• November 25

Frederick Howard Taylor born 25 November

• • Katharine Adams, Bookbinder (d. 1952)
  • Gaston Frommel (d. 1906)
  • Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
  • Frederick Howard Taylor, Missionary in China and Author (d. 1946)
• November 26
  • Edmund Wyly Grier, Canadian artist (d. 1957)
  • Aurel Stein (d. 1943)
• November 27
  • William Blackman, English cricketer (d. 1885)
  • Franz Xaver Kugler, German chemist (d. 1929)
• November 28
  • George Boomer, American journalist (d. 1915)
  • Antoine Depage, Belgian physician (d. 1925)
  • Henry McMahon (d. 1949)
  • Albert Rigolot, French painter (d. 1932)
  • Charles Augustus Strong, Philosopher, psychologist (d. 1940)
  • James Toomey, Australian trade unionist (d. 1920)
• November 29
  • Joe Elvin, British entertainer (d. 1935)
  • Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German right-wing politician (d. 1934)
  • Otis Turner, American director (d. 1918)
• November 30
  • John Arthur Jackson, British politician (d. 1937)
  • Karl Emil Ståhlberg, Finnihs film producer (d. 1919)
  • Byrde M. Vaughan, American politician and lawyer (d. 1941)

December

• December 2
  • Florence L. Barclay, English romance novelist and short story writer (d. 1921)
  • Robert Luce, American politician (d. 1946)
  • Charles Mallet, British politician (d. 1947)
  • Louise Adeline Weitzel, American writer (d. 1934)
• December 3

Colin Richard Keppel born 3 December

• • Charles Grafly, American sculptor and educator (d. 1929)
  • Colin Richard Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1947)
  • Jules Renkin, Belgian politician (d. 1934)
  • John Salmond, New Zealand judge (d. 1924)
• December 4 – Frank P. Mahony, Australian artist (d. 1916)
• December 5

Harry Fuller born 5 December

• • William Walker Atkinson, American spiritual writer (d. 1932)
  • John Edmund Califano, American artist (d. 1946)
  • A. Elmer Crowell, American artist (d. 1952)
  • Federico Degetau, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1914)
  • Nicolae Filipescu, Romanian politician (d. 1916)
  • Harry Fuller, American baseball player (d. 1895)
  • John Henry Leech, English entomologist (d. 1900)
  • Francis Morris, Canadian politician (d. 1947)
  • Dugald Stewart, Canadian politician (d. 1932)
  • George B. Terrell, American politician (d. 1947)
• December 6 – Abel Henry Smith, British politician (d. 1930)
• December 7
  • Paul Adam (d. 1920)
  • Thorstein Diesen, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (d. 1925)
  • Humphrey Jones, Welsh footballer (d. 1946)
  • Henry Augustus Pilsbry, American zoologist (d. 1957)
  • Edward Anthony Strauss, English corn (d. 1939)
  • Robert Loftus Owen Versfeld, South African rugby union administrator (d. 1932)
• December 8
  • Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
  • Frederick John Fulton, Canadian politician (d. 1936)
  • Charles Murphy (d. 1935)
• December 9

Nelly Erichsen born 9 December

• • Andre W. Brewster, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)
  • Ernest de Chamaillard, Painter (d. 1931)
  • Joseph Clemens, American botanist (d. 1936)
  • Nelly Erichsen, British artist (d. 1918)
  • William Heasman, Cricketer (d. 1934)
  • John Michael Higgins, Australian metallurgist (d. 1937)
  • F. O. Oertel, archaeologist, civil engineer (d. 1942)
• December 10
  • Bob Black, American baseball player (d. 1933)
  • Georges Hulin de Loo, Belgian art historian specialising in Early Netherlandish art (d. 1945)
  • Emily Malbone Morgan (d. 1937)
  • Benjamin Charles Prowse, Canadian politician (d. 1930)
  • Edmund Severn, American composer and violinist born in England (d. 1942)
• December 11
  • John H. Arnold, American politician who served as 34th Lieutenant Governor/Ohio(1915–1917) (d. 1944)
  • Denver S. Church, American politician (d. 1952)
  • Carl Diener, Austrian paleontologist (d. 1928)
  • Stepan Pasiuha, Ukrainian musician (d. 1933)
  • Otto Valstad, Norwegian painter (d. 1950)
• December 12

Cao Kun born 12 December

• • André Fauquet-Lemaître, Polo player (d. 1943)
  • Vladimir Gurko, Russian politician (d. 1927)
  • J. Bruce Ismay, English shipping magnate, White Star Line (d. 1937)
  • Cao Kun (d. 1938)
  • Adolfo Alejandro Nouel, Catholic bishop (d. 1937)
  • Paul von Rohden, German historian (d. 1939)
  • Gersz Salwe, Polish chess player (d. 1920)
• December 13
  • William E. Glasscock, American politician, served as Governor of West Virginia as a Republican (d. 1925)
  • Sophus Halle, Danish composer (d. 1924)
  • Francis Newdegate (d. 1936)
• December 14
  • Gunther von Etzel, German general (d. 1948)
  • Bertha Hofer Hegner, Educator and promoter of the Kindergarten Movement (d. 1937)
  • Henry Yule Oldham, British academic (d. 1951)
  • Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth, British politician (d. 1951)
• December 15

Nonpareil Dempsey born 15 December

• • Nonpareil Dempsey, Irish-born champion boxer (d. 1895)
  • William Gordon, American politician (d. 1942)
  • Adrien Loir, French biologist and bacteriologist (d. 1941)
  • Adela Maddison, Composer (d. 1929)
• December 16

John Fox, Jr. born 16 December

• • James Brown (d. 1939)
  • Eugène Demolder, Belgian writer (d. 1919)
  • John Fox, Jr., American journalist (d. 1919)
  • George Thurland Prior, British mineralogist (d. 1936)
  • Cecil Purser, Australian doctor (d. 1953)
• December 17
  • Eric Bodington, British Archdeacon (d. 1929)
  • Urbain Gohier, Anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi writer (d. 1951)
  • Charles A.E. Harriss, British-Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1929)
  • Moriz Rosenthal, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
• December 18

Alfred Law (cricketer) born 18 December

• • Alfred Law, English cricketer (d. 1919)
  • Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham, British politician (d. 1933)
  • John S. Snook, politician (d. 1952)
  • Ulrich Wilcken, German historian (d. 1944)
• December 20
  • James Leigh, English cricketer who played for Lancashire (d. 1925)
  • Michael Strøm Lie, Norwegian diplomat (d. 1934)
  • Washington Ellsworth Lindsey, American politician (d. 1926)
• December 21 – William Dalby, British mechanical engineer (d. 1936)
• December 22

Connie Mack born 22 December

Robert Hotung born 22 December

• • John T. Adams, Businessman (d. 1939)
  • Vaughan Cornish, English geographer (d. 1948)
  • Walter Samuel Goodland, American politician and the 31st Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1947)
  • Robert Hotung (d. 1956)
  • Connie Mack (d. 1956)
  • Ivor Maxse, British Army general (d. 1958)
  • J. E. Meyers, insurance salesman (d. 1944)
  • Jean Hyacinthe Vincent, French physician (d. 1950)
• December 23

[[File:[[AshtonShallenberger.jpg|thumb|right|110px|Ashton C. Shallenberger born 23 December]]

• • Frans Rapola, Finnish secondary school teacher and politician (d. 1910)
  • Ashton C. Shallenberger, Nebraska Democratic politician and the 15th Governor of Nebraska (d. 1938)
  • J. A. Spender, British journalist (d. 1942)
  • John Edward Sutton, British politician (d. 1945)
  • Amos Russel Wells, American writer (d. 1933)
  • Hans Wessely, Austrian violinist (d. 1926)
• December 24

Meliton Balanchivadze born 24 December

• • Meliton Balanchivadze, Georgian musician (d. 1937)
  • Ferdinand Elbers, Belgian politician (d. 1943)
  • Chester A. Fowler, American judge (d. 1948)
  • Wilhelm Mönkemeyer, German bryologist (d. 1938)
• December 25
  • Raoul de Boigne, Sport shooter (d. 1949)
  • Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, British historian and writer (d. 1926)
  • George William Kinman, Schoolteacher (d. 1927)
  • Lee Meriwether, American writer and government official (d. 1966)
  • Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician (d. 1937)
  • Willard Otis Wylie, American philatelist (d. 1944)
• December 26

Alexander Amfiteatrov born 26 December

• • Alexander Amfiteatrov (d. 1938)
  • Arnold Berliner, German physicist (d. 1942)
  • Albert Moore, United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1916)
  • Slavko Wolf, Croatian lawyer, chess player and writer (d. 1936)
• December 27

Elie-Jean-Joseph Morel born 27 December

• • William Cropper, English cricketer (d. 1889)
  • Ducky Hemp, American baseball player (d. 1923)
  • Alice De Wolf Kellogg, American artist (d. 1900)
  • Elie-Jean-Joseph Morel, French archbishop (d. 1948)
  • Edward Robinson, English county cricketer (d. 1942)
  • Anton van Wouw, Dutch-born sculptor regarded as the father of South African sculpture (d. 1945)
• December 28

William Chase Temple born 28 December

• • Edmond S. Meany, American politician and academic (d. 1935)
  • Morris Rosenfeld, Yiddish poet (d. 1923)
  • William Chase Temple, American sports executive (d. 1917)
  • Rasmus Tveteraas, Norwegian schoolteacher (d. 1938)
• December 29
  • Nora Drummond, British artist (d. 1949)
  • Tahvo Kruus, Finnish farmer (d. 1918)
  • Leonard Rowland, British politician (d. 1939)
  • Charles Samuel, engraver, medalist, sculptor (d. 1938)
  • Peter Moore Speer, Republican member of the U (d. 1933)
• December 30 – Thomas Bulch, Australian musician and composer (d. 1930)
• December 31 – Albert Sleeper, American politician and served as the 29th Governor of Michigan (d. 1934)