- July 4 - University Of Bucharest is founded.
- August 4 August 12 - The self-proclaimed, " Emperor Norton I Of The United States " abolished both the Democratic and Republican parties.
- August 9 - August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht founded the Social Democratic Workers' Party Of Germany (SDAP)
- August 20 - Abergele Train Disaster - ''Irish Mail'' passenger train collides with cargo trucks loaded with paraffin - 33 dead; First major train disaster in Britain
- August 31 - Mary Ward is killed in a Car Accident , possibly the first person ever to suffer this fate
- September 11 - Work completed on the Wallace Monument
- October 16 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College , is founded.
- November 4 - The first issue of scientific journal '' Nature '' is published.
- November 6 - The first Intercollegiate American Football game is played. Rutgers defeats Princeton, 6 to 4.
- November 17 - In Egypt , the Suez Canal , linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea , is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.
- November 23 - In Dumbarton , Scotland the clipper ship '' Cutty Sark '' is launched (it was one of the last Clipper ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present day).
- December 10 - First American chapter of Kappa Sigma founded at the University Of Virginia .
- December 31 - Triple Alliance forces take Asuncion
- January 1 - Sigma Nu , First Anti-Hazing Honor/Social Fraternity
- January 4 - Tommy Corcoran , baseball player (d. 1960 )
- January 10 - Grigori Rasputin , Russian mystic (d. 1916 )
- January 15 - Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (d. 1907 )
- February 11 - Helene Kroller-Muller , Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (d. 1939 )
- February 14 - Charles Wilson , Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959 )
- March 3 - Michael Von Faulhaber , German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952 )
- March 14 - Algernon Blackwood , English writer (d. 1951 )
- March 18 - Neville Chamberlain , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1940 )
- March 21 - Florenz Ziegfeld , theatrical producer (d. 1932 )
- April 2 - Hughie Jennings , baseball player (d. 1928 )
- April 4 - Mary Colter , American architect (d. 1958 )
- April 8 - Harvey Cushing , American neurosurgeon (d. 1939 )
- April 11 - Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943 )
- May 5 - Hans Pfitzner , German composer (d. 1949 )
- May 20 - John Stone Stone , American physicist and inventor (d. 1943 )
- June 17 - Flora Finch , English-born comedienne (d. 1940 )
- June 27 - Hans Spemann , German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1941 )
- August 10 - Lawrence Binyon , English poet and scholar (d. 1943 )
- September 3 - Fritz Pregl , Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930 )
- September 17 - Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938 )
- September 23 - Mary Mallon , "Typhoid Mary" (d. 1938 )
- October 2 - Mohandas Gandhi , founder of the modern Indian state and proponent of nonviolence (d. 1948 )
- October 25 - John Heisman , American football coach (d. 1936 )
- November 10 - Wayne Wheeler , American Temperance Movement leader (d. 1927 )
- November 11 - Victor Emmanuel III Of Italy (d. 1947 )
- November 22 - André Gide , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951 )
- November 25 - Herbert Greenfield , Premier Of Alberta (d. 1949 )
- November 30 - Gustaf Dalén , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937 )
- December 16 - Hristo Tatarchev , Bulgaria n revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock , British-Canadian author and economist (d. 1944 )
- December 31 - Henri Matisse , French painter (d. 1954 )
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