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Year (''' MDCCCXXXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- July 13 - First numbered U.S. patent #1 (after filing 9,957 unnumbered patents) is granted, for locomotive wheels.
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- January 2 - Mendele Moykher Sforim , Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917 )
- January 10 - Charles Phillip Ingalls , Pioneer father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. June 8 , 1902 )
- January 14 - Henri Fantin-Latour , French painter (d. 1904 )
- January 27 - Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch , Austrian writer (d. 1895 )
- February 16 - Robert Halpin , Irish mariner and cable layer (d. 1894 )
- February 18 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa , Bengali religious leader (d. 1886 )
- February 21 - Léo Delibes , French composer (d. 1891 )
- February 24 - Winslow Homer , American painter. 1910 )
- March 12 - Isabella Beeton , British cook and expert on household management (d. 1865 )
- March 20 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , American politician (d. 1886 )
- March 20 - Sir Edward Poynter , French-born artist (d. 1919 )
- April 27 - Major Charles Bendire , U.S. Army captain and ornithologist (d. 1897 )
- May 27 - Jay Gould , American financier (d. 1892 )
- May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich , German chemist (d. 1918 )
- May 31 - Jules Chéret , French printmaker (d. 1932 )
- July 8 - Joseph Chamberlain , British politician (d. 1914 )
- July 9 - Camille De Renesse , Belgian Count (d. 1904 )
- August 13 - Bishop Nikolai Of Japan , Russian Orthodox priest (d. 1912 )
- August 25 - Bret Harte , American writer (d. 1902 )
- September 7 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1908 )
- September 11 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American author (d. 1870 )
- September 17 - William Jackson Palmer , founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1836)
- October 15 - James Tissot , French artist (d. 1902 )
- November 11 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich , American poet and novelist (d. 1907 )
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