Year (''' MDCCCLXI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 14 - Mehmed VI , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926 )
- January 30 - Charles Martin Loeffler , American composer (d. 1935 )
- February 12 - Lou Andreas-Salome , Russian-born author (d. 1937 )
- February 15 - Charles Edouard Guillaume , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938 )
- February 26 - King Ferdinand Of Bulgaria (d. 1948 )
- February 27 - Rudolf Steiner , Austrian philosopher (d. 1925 )
- April 8 - Son, Byong-Hi , Korean nationalist (d. 1922 )
- April 15 - Bliss Carman , Canadian poet (d. 1929 )
- May 7 - Rabindranath Tagore , Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941 )
- May 11 - Frederick Russell Burnham , American Scout, father of international scouting movement (d. 1947 )
- June 12 - William Attewell , English cricketer (d. 1927 )
- June 19 - Doctor Jose Rizal , Philippine national hero (d. 1896 )
- June 20 - Frederick Hopkins , English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize For Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1947 )
- September 10 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen , Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941 )
- September 23 - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge , British poet and novelist (d. 1907 )
- September 30 - William Wrigley Jr. , U.S. chewing gum industrialist (d. 1932 )
- October 4 - Frederic S. Remington , cowboy artist and sculptor (d. 1909 )
- October 16 - J. B. Bury , British historian (d. 1927 )
- October 30 - Antoine Bourdelle , French sculptor (d. 1929 )
- December 4 - Lillian Russell , American singer and vaudeville star (d. 1922 )
- November 6 - James Naismith , Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939 )
- December 8 - Georges Méliès , French film director (d. 1938 )
- December 10 - Fridtjof Nansen , Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1930 )
- December 15 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud , Prime Minister and President Of Finland (d. 1944 )
- December 16 - Antonio De La Gandara , French painter (d. 1917 )
- December 20 - Ivana Kobilca , Slovenian painter (d. 1926 )
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- --- William H. Stayton - American founder of the Association Against The Prohibition Amendment (d. ?)
- --- Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar - Malayali Journalist and Short story writer (d. 1914 )
- --- Harro Magnussen - German Sculptor (d. 1908 )
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- January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV , King of Prussia (b. 1795 )
- January 17 - Lola Montez , Irish-born dancer and mistress of King Ludwig I Of Bavaria (b. 1821 )
- April 15 - Isaiah Stillman , Major in the Black Hawk War (b. 1793 )
- March 10 - Taras Shevchenko , Ukrainian poet, nationalist, and founder of Ukrainian Literature (b. 1814 )
- May 29 - Joachim Lelewel , Polish nationalist historian (b. 1786 )
- June 3 - Stephen A. Douglas , U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (b. 1813 )
- June 25 - Abd-ul-Mejid , Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823 )
- June 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning , English poet (b. 1806 )
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