- October 4 - Texas A&M University, the state’s first public institution of higher education, opened on October 4, 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
- October 31 - Catastrophic Cyclone strikes the east coast of India . 200,000 people lose their lives.
- November 2 - Atlantic Giant Squid 6.1 meters long washes ashore in Thimble Tickle Bay in Canada
- November 21 - Porfirio Diaz arrives in Mexico City and takes power
- November 7 - U.S. Presidential Election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes would be declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden .
- November 7 - Green Clay Smith ran as presidential candidate of Prohibition Party .
- November 7 - Samuel Fenton Cary ran as vice-presidential candidate of Greenback Party.
- November 23 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed ) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain .
- defeat at the Battle Of The Little Bighorn , United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife 's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroyed all of the villager's winter food and clothing and then slashed their ponies' throats).
- November 29 - Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico .
- December 5 - Fire in theater in Brooklyn , New York City , kills more than 300
- December 23 - Conference Of Constantinople about Ottoman treatment of its ethnic minorities begins
- December 29 - The Ashtabula River Railroad Bridge Disaster , 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio .
- January 5 - Konrad Adenauer , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1967 )
- January 11 - Elmer Flick , baseball player (d. 1971 )
- January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , Italian composer (d. 1948 )
- January 12 - Jack London , American author (d. 1916 )
- January 20 - Józef Hofmann , Polish pianist (d. 1967 )
- January 23 - Otto Diels , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954 )
- January 29 - Havergal Brian , British composer (d. 1972 )
- February 12 - Thubten Gyatso , 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933 )
- February 19 - Constantin Brancusi , Romanian sculptor (d. 1957 )
- March 1 - Henri De Baillet-Latour , Belgian International Olympic Committee president (d. 1942 )
- March 2 - Pope Pius XII (d. 1958 )
- March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue , French poet (d. 1947 )
- March 11 - Carl Ruggles , British composer (d. 1971 )
- March 21 - John Tewksbury , American athlete (d. 1968 )
- April 4 - Maurice De Vlaminck , French painter and poet (d. 1958 )
- April 11 - Paul Henry , Irish artist (d. 1958 )
- April 22 - Robert Bárány , Hungarian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1936 )
- May 18 - Hermann Müller , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1931 )
- June 5 - Tony Jackson , American jazz musician (d. 1920 )
- June 13 - William Sealy Gosset , English chemist (d. 1937 )
- July 2 - Wilhelm Cuno , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1933 )
- July 12 - Max Jacob , French poet (d. 1944 )
- July 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith , president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972 )
- August 7 - Mata Hari , exotic dancer and spy (d. 1917 )
- September 6 - John James Richard Macleod , Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935 )
- September 15 - Bruno Walter , German conductor (d. 1962 )
- September 16 - Marvin Hart , boxer (d. 1931 )
- September 18 - James Scullin , ninth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1953 )
- September 26 - Edith Abbott , social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957 )
- October 13 - Rube Waddell , Baseball Hall Of Fame r (d. 1914 )
- November 7 - Charlie Townsend , English cricketer (d. 1958 )
- November 7 - Culbert Olson , Governor of California (d. 1962 )
- November 17 - August Sander , German photographer (d. 1964 )
- November 23 - Manuel De Falla , Spanish composer (d. 1946 )
- November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin , American architect (d. 1937 )
- December 9 - Berton Churchill , Canadian actor (d. 1940 )
- December 12 - Alvin Kraenzlein , American athlete (d. 1928 )
- December 21 - Jack Lang , Australian politician (d. 1975 )
- December 25 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah , founder of Pakistan (d. 1948 )
- December 25 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959 )
- December 29 - Pablo Casals , Catalan cellist (d. 1973 )
- Alfred Stock , German chemist (d. 1946 )
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