Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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Births
January-June
- January 11 - Lord George Nathaniel Curzon , British statesman and Viceroy Of India (d. 1925 )
- January 13 - Karl Bleibtreu , critic (d. 1928 )
- January 27 - Wilhelm II Of Germany , last Emperor of Germany and King Of Prussia (d. 1941 )
- February 1 - Victor Herbert , Irish-born composer (d. 1924 )
- February 3 - Hugo Junkers , German industrialist and aircraft designer (d. 1935 )
- February 6 - Elias Disney , American farmer and father of Walt Disney (d. 1941 )
- February 14 - Henry Valentine Knaggs , English physician and author (d. 1954 )
- February 16 - George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. , inventor of the Ferris Wheel (d. 1896 )
- February 19 - Svante Arrhenius , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927 )
- February 28 - Florian Cajori , Swiss historian of mathematics (d. 1930 )
- March 2 - Sholom Aleichem , Ukrainian Yiddish novelist (d. 1916 )
- March 8 - Kenneth Grahame , English author (d. 1932 )
- March 26 - Alfred Edward Housman , English poet (d. 1936 )
- April 8 - Edmund Husserl , Austrian philosopher (d. 1938 )
- May 15 - Pierre Curie , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906 )
- May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Scottish writer (d. 1930 )
July-December
- July 6 - Verner Von Heidenstam , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940 )
- July 22 - Emma Lazarus , American poet (d. 1887 )
- August 4 - Knut Hamsun , Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952 )
- October 9 - Alfred Dreyfus , French military officer (d. 1935 )
- October 18 - Henri Bergson , French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature (d. 1941 )
- October 21 - Francesc Macià , President of the Catalan Generalitat (d. 1933 )
- November 19 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov , Russian composer (d. 1935 )
- December 2 - Georges Seurat , French painter (d. 1891 )
- December 15 - L. L. Zamenhof , Russo-Polish initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917 )
- December 17 - Paul César Helleu , French artist (d. 1927 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
- April 16 - Alexis De Tocqueville , French historian (b. 1805 )
- May 6 - Alexander Von Humboldt , German naturalist and geographer (b. 1769 )
- July 8 - Oscar I , King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799 )
- August 2 - Horace Mann , American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796 )
- September 15 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel , British engineer (b. 1806 )
- October 4 - Karl Baedeker , German author and publisher (b. 1801 )
- October 22 - Louis Spohr , German violinist and composer (b. 1784 )
- November 28 - Washington Irving , American author (b. 1783 )
- December 2 - John Brown , American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800 )
- December 8 - Thomas De Quincey , English writer (b. 1785 )
- December 16 - Wilhelm Grimm , German writer (b. 1786 )
- Abderrahmane , Sultan Of Morocco
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