Year (''' MDCCCLV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 5 - King Camp Gillette , American inventor (d. 1932 )
- January 20 - Ernest Chausson , French composer (d. 1899 )
- January 21 - John Moses Browning , American firearms inventor (d. 1926 )
- January 28 - William Seward Burroughs , American bank clerk and inventor (d. 1898 )
- March 13 - Percival Lowell , American astronomer (d. 1916 )
- March 24 - Andrew Mellon , American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937 )
- April 21 - Hardy Richardson , 19th century baseball player (d. 1931 )
- April 27 - Caroline Rémy , French feminist (d. 1929 )
- May 1 - Marie Corelli , English novelist (d. 1924 )
- May 9 - Julius Röntgen , German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932 )
- May 10 - Sri Yukteswar Giri , Author of The Holy Science
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- January 6 - Giacomo Beltrami , Italian explorer (b. 1779 )
- January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford , English novelist and dramatist (b. 1787 )
- January 26 - Gérard De Nerval , French writer (b. 1808 )
- February 6 - Josef Munzinger , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1791 )
- February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss , German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777 )
- March 2 - Nicholas I Of Russia , the 11th Russian Tsar (b. 1796 )
- March 29 - Henri Druey , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799 )
- March 31 - Charlotte Brontë , English author (b. 1816 )
- May 5 - Robert Inglis , English politician (b. 1786 )
- May 23 - Charles Robert Malden English explorer (b. 1797 )
- June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan , commander of British forces in the Crimean War (b. 1788 )
- June 28 - Pavel Nakhimov , Russian admiral (b. 1802 )
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