Year (''' MDCCCXLV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Monday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- February 14 - Quintin Hogg , British philapnthropist (d. 1903 )
- February 15 - Elihu Root , American statesman and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937 )
- February 25 - George Reid , fourth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1918 )
- March 2 - Francisco Domingo Marques , Spanish painter(d. 1920 )
- March 3 - Georg Cantor , German mathematician (d. 1918 )
- March 10 - Emperor Alexander III Of Russia (d. 1894 )
- March 27 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923 )
- April 24 - Carl Spitteler , Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924 )
- May 12 - Gabriel Fauré , French composer (d. 1924 )
- May 16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov , Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1916 )
- May 17 - Jacint Verdaguer , Catalan poet (d. 1902 )
- May 25 - Eugène Grasset , Swiss-born artist (d. 1917 )
- May 25 - Lip Pike , baseball player (d. 1893 )
- May 30 - King Amadeus I Of Spain (d. 1890 )
- June 7 - Leopold Auer , Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930 )
- June 9 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl Of Minto (d. 1914 )
- June 16 - Heinrich Dressel , German archaeologist (d. 1920 )
- June 18 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran , French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1922 )
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