Year (''' MDCCCLII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 8 - James Milton Carroll , Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (d. 1931 )
- January 11 - Konstantin Fehrenbach , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1926 )
- February 16 - Charles Taze Russell - American preacher (d. 1916 )
- March 1 - Théophile Delcassé , French statesman (d. 1923 )
- April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey , American painter (d. 1911 )
- April 13 - F.W. Woolworth , American merchant and businessman (d. 1919 )
- April 22 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke Of Luxembourg (d. 1912 )
- May 1 - Santiago Ramón Y Cajal , Spanish histologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1934 )
- May 4 - Alice Pleasance Liddell , English schoolgirl inspiration for ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (d. 1934 )
- May 31 - Julius Richard Petri , German bacteriologist (d. 1921 )
- July - Salluste Duval , Canadian inventor (d. 1917 )
- July 12 - Hipólito Yrigoyen , President Of Argentina (d. 1933 )
- August 30 - Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff , Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911 )
- September 12 - Herbert Henry Asquith , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1928 )
- September 15 - Edward Bouchet , American physicist (d. 1918 )
- September 28 - Henri Moissan , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907 )
- October 2 - William Ramsay , Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916 )
- October 9 - Hermann Emil Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 )
- November 1 - Eugene W. Chafin , American politician (d. 1920 )
- November 3 - Prince Mutsuhito of Japan, the future Emperor Meiji (d. 1912 )
- November 11 - Franz Conrad Von Hötzendorf , Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925 )
- November 22 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin D'Estournelles De Constant , French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924 )
- December 15 - Henri Becquerel , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908 )
- December 19 - Albert Abraham Michelson , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )
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- July 22 - Auguste Marmont , French marshal (b. 1774 )
- September 4 - William MacGillivray , Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796 )
- September 14 - Augustus Pugin , English architect (b. 1812 )
- September 14 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington , British general and Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1769 )
- September 20 - Philander Chase , American founder of Kenyon College (b. 1775 )
- October 13 - John Lloyd Stephens , American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (b. 1805 )
- October 24 - Daniel Webster , American statesman (b. 1782 )
- October 25 - John C. Clark , American politician (b. 1793 )
- November 27 - Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess Of Lovelace , early English computer pioneer (b. 1815 )
- November 29 - Nicolae Bălcescu , Wallachian revolutionary (b. 1819 )
- November 30 - Junius Brutus Booth , English-born actor (b. 1796 )
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