Year (''' MDCCCXXVIII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- July 9 - Luigi Oreglia Di Santo Stefano , Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913 )
- August 6 - Andrew Taylor Still , father of osteopathy (d. 1917 )
- August 17 - Maria Deraismes , French feminist (d. 1894 )
- September 8 - Joshua Chamberlain , Leader of 20th Maine during the American Civil War , Governor Of Maine , President of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine
- September 9 ( O.S. August 28 ) - Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer (d. 1910 )
- October 20 - Horatio Spafford , author of the hymn ''"It is Well with my Soul"'' (d. 1888 )
- October 31 - Joseph Swan , English physicist and chemist (d. 1914 )
- December 8 - Clinton B. Fisk , American Temperance Movement leader (d. 1890 )
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