Year (''' MDCCCXXVI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 12 - William Chapman Ralston , banker and financier (d. 1875 )
- January 26 - Louis Favre , Swiss engineer (d. 1879 )
- January 27
- --- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian writer (d. 1889 )
- --- Richard Taylor , American Confederate general (d. 1879 )
- February 16
- --- Joseph Victor Von Scheffel , German poet (d. 1886 )
- --- James Calder , 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University
- --- Julia Grant , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1902 )
- March 4 - Theodore Judah , railroad engineer (d. 1863 )
- March 24 - Matilda Joslyn Gage , pioneering Feminist (d. 1898 )
- March 29 - Wilhelm Liebknecht , German journalist and politician (d. 1900 )
- April 6 - Gustave Moreau , French painter (d. 1898 )
- April 26 - George Hull Ward , American general (d. 1863 )
- May 3 - King Charles XV Of Sweden and Norway (d. 1872 )
- May 4 - Frederic Edwin Church , American painter (d. 1900 )
- June 24 - George Goyder , surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898 )
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