Year (''' MDCCCLVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 4 - Émile Courtet , French caricaturist and animator (d. 1938 )
- January 26 - The 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875 )
- February 12 - Bobby Peel , English cricketer (d. 1943 )
- February 13 - Almanzo James Wilder , Husband of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. October 23 , 1949 )
- February 22 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell , English founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941 )
- February 22 - Heinrich Hertz , German physicist (d. 1894 )
- March 7 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1940 )
- March 8 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo , Italian composer (d. 1919 )
- March 27 - Karl Pearson , statistician (d. 1936 )
- March 30 - Leon Charles Thevenin , French telegraph engineer (d. 1926 )
- April 5 - Alexander Of Battenberg , first Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893 )
- May 7 - William A. MacCorkle , Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930 )
- May 13 - Ronald Ross , English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1932 )
- May 15 - Williamina Fleming , Scottish astronomer (d. 1911 )
- May 19 - John Jacob Abel , American pharmacologist (d. 1938 )
- May 31 - Pope Pius XI (d. 1939 )
- June 2
- --- Edward Elgar , English composer (d. 1934 )
- --- Karl Adolph Gjellerup , Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 )
- July 22 - Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi , Islamic Scholar(d. 1911 )
- July 23 - Carl Meinhof , German linguist (d. 1944 )
- July 24 - Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943 )
- July 28 - Ballington Booth , Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers Of America (d. 1940 )
- July 30 - Thorstein Veblen , Norwegian economist (d. 1929 )
- August 14 - Max Wagenknecht , German composer (d. 1922 )
- September 5 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , Russian scientist and inventor (d. 1935 )
- September 8 - Georg Michaelis , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1936 )
- September 13
- --- Michał Drzymała , Polish peasant and revolutionary (d. 1937 )
- --- Milton S. Hershey , American chocolate manufacturer (d. 1945 )
- September 15 - William Howard Taft , 27th President Of The United States (d. 1930 )
- October 24 - Ned Williamson , American baseball player (d. 1894 )
- November 5 - Ida Tarbell , American journalist (d. 1944 )
- November 17 - George Marchant , English-born inventor, manufacturer, and philanthropist (d. 1941 )
- November 26 - Ferdinand De Saussure , Swiss linguist (d. 1913 )
- November 27 - Charles Scott Sherrington , English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952 )
- November 28 - King Alfonso XII Of Spain (d. 1885 )
- November 30 - Bobby Abel , English cricketer (d. 1936 )
- December 3 - Joseph Conrad , Polish-British novelist (d. 1924 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Joseph Tabrar , British songwriter (d. 1931 )
- --- Lucy Bacon , Californian Impressionist Painter {d. 1932 }
- --- Shibli Nomani , Indian Muslim scholar. d. 1914
: ''See also .''
- July 4 - Henry Montgomery Lawrence , soldier and statesman (b. 1806 )
- July 15 - Carl Czerny , Austrian composer (b. 1791 )
- July 19 - Stefano Franscini , Member Of The Swiss Federal Council (b. 1796 )
- July 29 - Charles Lucien Bonaparte , French naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1803 )
- August 3 - Eugène Sue , French novelist (b. 1804 )
- September 3 - John McLoughlin , Canadian trapper (b. 1784 )
- November 12 - Maximilian Spinola , entomologist (b. 1780 )
- November 26 - Joseph Von Eichendorff , German poet (b. 1788 )
- December 3 - Christian Daniel Rauch , German sculptor (b. 1777 )
- December 15 - Sir George Cayley , English aviation pioneer (b. 1773 )
: ''See also .''
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