- November 3 - Associação Académica De Coimbra , Students' Union of the University Of Coimbra in Portugal , was founded.
- November 10 - Louis Lingg , sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket Riot bomb, kills himself by Dynamite
- In London, police and left-wing demonstrators clash. One dead. One of the participants is George Bernard Shaw .
- November 11 - August Spies , Albert Parsons , Adolph Fischer , George Engel , Louis Lingg , Michael Schwab , and Samuel Fielden hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket Riot of May 4 , 1886 .
- November 13 - Bloody Sunday , Police clash with pro-irish indepence protesters.
- February 1 - Charles Nordhoff , English-born author (d. 1947 )
- February 2 - Pat Sullivan , Australian director and producer of animated films (d. 1933 )
- February 3 - Georg Trakl , Austrian poet (d. 1914 )
- February 6 - Josef Frings , Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978 )
- February 10 - John Franklin Enders , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1985 )
- February 11 - Ernst Hanfstängl , German-born pianist and U.S. politician (d. 1975 )
- February 11 - John Van Melle , Dutch-born writer (d. 1953 )
- February 17 - Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer (d. 1947 )
- February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek poet (d. 1957 )
- February 20 - Vincent Massey , Governor-General Of Canada (d. 1967 )
- February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander , baseball player (d. 1950 )
- April 10 - Bernardo Houssay , Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- April 15 - Mike Brady , American golfer (d. 1972 )
- May 2 - Eddie Collins , baseball player (d. 1951 )
- May 5 - Geoffrey Fisher , Archbishop Of Canterbury (d. 1972 )
- May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein , Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951 )
- May 25 - Pio Of Pietrelcina , Italian saint (d. 1968 )
- May 26 - Paul Lukas , Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971 )
- May 28 - Jim Thorpe , American athlete (d. 1953 )
- May 31 - Saint-John Perse , French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin , Russian composer (b. 1833 )
- March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher , American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813 )
- May 14 - Lysander Spooner , American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808 )
- July 8 - John Wright Oakes , Landscape Painter (b. 1820 )
- July 17 - Dorothea Dix , American social activist (b. 1802 )
- July 25 - John Taylor , American religious leader (b. 1808 )
- August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan , American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808 )
- August 20 - Jules Laforgue , French poet (b. 1860 )
- October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff , German physicist (b. 1824 )
- November 2 - Jenny Lind , Swedish soprano (b. 1820 )
- November 8 - Doc Holliday , American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851 )
- November 19 - Emma Lazarus , American poet (b. 1859 )
- December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow , American poet (b. 1804 )
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