Year (''' MDCCCXLVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 28 - Dorus Rijkers , Dutch naval hero (d. 1928 )
- February 8 - Hugh Price Hughes , Methodist Social Reformer, First Superintendent of the West London Mission (d. 1902 )
- February 11 - Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor (d. 1931 )
- February 15 - Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer (d. 1927 )
- February 16 - Philipp Scharwenka , Polish-German composer (d. 1917 )
- March 3
- --- Alexander Graham Bell , Scottish-born inventor (d. 1922 )
- --- Adelaide Neilson , English actress (d. 1880 )
- March 4 - Karl Bayer , Austrian chemist (d. 1904 )
- March 14 - Castro Alves , Brazilian poet (d. 1871 )
- March 27 - Otto Wallach , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )
- April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer , Hungarian-born journalist and newspaper publisher (d. 1911 )
- May 7 - Archibald Primrose , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1929 )
- June 8 - Ida Saxton McKinley, U.S. First Lady (d. 1907 )
- June 11 - Millicent Fawcett , British suffragist and feminist (d. 1929 )
- July 9 - Wong Fei Hung , Chinese healer and revolutionary (d. 1924 )
- July 25 - Paul Langerhans , German pathologist and biologist (d. 1888 )
- August 14 - Robert Comtesse , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922 )
- September 5 - Jesse James , American outlaw (d. 1882 )
- October 1 - Annie Besant , English women's rights activist, writer and orator.(d. 1933 )
- October 2 - Paul Von Hindenburg , President Of Germany (d. 1934 )
- October 14 - Chiquinha Gonzaga , Brazilian composer (d. 1935 )
- November 26 - Dagmar Of Denmark , empress of Tsar Alexander III Of Russia (d. 1928 )
- December 7 - George Grossmith , English actor and comic writer (d. 1912 )
- December 18 - Augusta Holmès , French composer (d. 1903 )
- November 30 - Afonso Pena , Brazilian president (d. 1909 )
- December 17 - Michel-Joseph Maunoury , French General during World War I (d. 1923 )
- December 28 - Giuseppe Maria Giulietti , Italian explorer (d. 1881 )
- ''date unknown'' - Hale Johnson , American Temperance Movement leader (d. 1902 )
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