Year (''' MDCCCXXXII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Friday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 6 - Gustave Doré , French painter and sculptor (d. 1883 )
- January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr. , American Unitarian minister and author (d. 1899 )
- January 23 - Edouard Manet , French painter (d. 1883 )
- January 27 - Lewis Carroll , English author (d. 1898 )
- April 19 - José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916 )
- May 14 - Charles Peace , British criminal (d. 1879 )
- May 21 - James Hudson Taylor , founder of the China Inland Mission (d. 1905 )
- May 28 - Tony Pastor , American vaudeville and theater impresario (d. 1908 )
- June 17 - Sir William Crookes , English chemist and physicist (d. 1919 )
- July 6 - Emperor Maximilian I Of Mexico (d. 1867 )
- July 11 - Charilaos Trikoupis , 7-time Prime Minister Of Greece (d. 1896 )
- October 1 - Caroline Harrison , wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1892 )
- October 2 - Edward Burnett Tylor , English anthropologist (d. 1917 )
- October 10 - Joe Cain , American parade organizer for Mardi Gras In Mobile , Alabama (d. 1904 )
- August 8 - King Georg I Of Saxony (d. 1904 )
- November 28 - Leslie Stephen , English writer and critic (d. 1904 )
- November 29 - Louisa May Alcott , American author (d. 1888 )
- December 8 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910 )
- December 15 - Gustave Eiffel , French engineer (d. 1923 )
- December 21 - John H. Ketcham , American politician (d. 1906 )
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