Year (''' MDCCCLXVI ''') 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 ).
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- First historical mention of Gerbil s, "yellow rats" sent to Museum of Natural History (Musée d'Histoire Naturelle) in Paris, by father Armand David from northern China.
- First use of the term ").
- Allemannia , rowing club is founded.
- January 13 - Vasily Kalinnikov , Russian composer (d. 1901 )
- January 15 - Nathan Söderblom , Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931 )
- January 29 - Romain Rolland , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944 )
- March 30 - George Van Haltren , baseball player (d. 1945 )
- April 1 - Ferruccio Busoni , Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924 )
- April 13 - Butch Cassidy , American outlaw (d. 1909 )
- April 17 - Ernest Starling , British physiologist (d. 1927 )
- April 24 - Ishii Kikujiro , Japanese diplomat (d. 1945 )
- May 5 - Thomas B. Thrige , Danish industrialist (d. 1938 )
- May 17 - Erik Satie , French composer (d. 1925 )
- June 4 - Miina Sillanpää , Finnish politician (d. 1952 )
- June 26 - George Herbert, 5th Earl Of Carnarvon , English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923 )
- July 6 - Charles Mangin , French general (d. 1925 )
- July 13 - La Goulue , French dancer (d. 1929 )
- July 28 - Beatrix Potter , English children's author (d. 1943 )
- August 12
- --- Jacinto Benavente , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954 )
- --- Tom Dowse , Irish baseball player who played in major league baseball in the 1890s (d. 1946 )
- September 1 - James J. Corbett , American boxer (d. 1933 )
- September 7 - Tristan Bernard , French writer (d. 1947 )
- September 10 - Jeppe Aakjaer , Danish poet and novelist (d. 1930 )
- September 21
- --- Charles Nicolle , French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1936 )
- --- H. G. Wells , English writer (d. 1946 )
- September 27 - Eurosia Fabris , Italian Catholic ''Blessed'' (d. 1932 )
- September 25 - Thomas Hunt Morgan , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1945 )
- October 12 - Ramsay MacDonald , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1937 )
- November 12 - Sun Yat-sen , Chinese revolutionary (d. 1925 )
- November 30 - Robert Broom , Scottish paleontologist (d. 1951 )
- December 12 - Alfred Werner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 )
- December 16 ( December 4 O.S.) - Wassily Kandinsky , Russian-born painter (d. 1944 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Ethna Carbery , Northern Irish poet (d. 1902 )
- --- William D. Upshaw , American politician and Temperance Movement leader (d. 1952 )
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- January 23 - Thomas Love Peacock , English satirist (b. 1785 )
- January 31 - Friedrich Rückert , German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (b. 1788 )
- January - Thomas Baldwin Marsh , American religious leader (b. 1799 )
- March 4 - Alexander Campbell , Irish/US founder of the Disciples Of Christ (b. 1788 )
- March 6 - William Whewell , English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794 )
- March 20 - Rikard Nordraak , Norwegian composer (b. 1842 )
- March 21 - Nadezhda Durova , First, female, Russian officer (b. 1783 )
- March 28 - Solomon Foot , American politician (b. 1802 )
- April 4 - William Dick , Founder of Edinburgh Veterinary College (b. 1793 )
- April 5 - Thomas Hodgkin , British physician (b. 1798 )
- May 13 - Nikolai Brashman , Russian mathematician of Czech origin (b. 1796 )
- May 29 - Winfield Scott , American general and presidential candidate (b. 1786 )
- June 7 - Chief Sealth , Native American whom Seattle is named for (b. circa 1786 )
: ''See also .''
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