Year (''' MDCCCXLII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 11 - William James , American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910 )
- February 3 - Sidney Lanier , American writer (d. 1881 )
- February 4 - Arrigo Boito , Italian poet and composer (d. 1918 )
- February 25 - Karl May , German writer (d. 1912 )
- March 2 - Carl Jacobsen , Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (d. 1914 )
- March 10 - Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (d. 1912 )
- March 18 - Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet (d. 1898 )
- May 8 - Emil Christian Hansen , Danish fermentation physiologist (d. 1909 )
- May 13 - Arthur Sullivan , English composer (d. 1900 )
- June 12 - Rikard Nordraak , Norwegian composer (d. 1866 )
- July 4 - Hermann Cohen , German-Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century" (d. 1918 )
- August 23 - Osborne Reynolds , Irish engineer and physicist (d. 1912 )
- September 13 - John H. Bankhead , U.S. Senator (d. 1920 )
- September 21 - Abd-ul-Hamid II , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918 )
- October 14 - Joe Start , baseball player (d. 1927 )
- October 28 - Anna Elizabeth Dickenson , American orator (d. 1932 )
- November 12 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 )
- December 2 - C. W. Alcock , English footballer and football official (d. 1907 )
- December 9 - Peter Kropotkin , Russian anarchist (d. 1921 )
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