Year (''' MDCCCLXIX ''') is a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 4 - Tommy Corcoran , baseball player (d. 1960 )
- January 10 - Grigori Rasputin , Russian mystic (d. 1916 )
- January 15 - Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (d. 1907 )
- February 11 - Helene Kroller-Muller , Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (d. 1939 )
- February 14 - Charles Wilson , Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959 )
- February 26 - Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya , a Russian Marxist revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin 's wife. (d. 1939 )
- March 3 - Michael Von Faulhaber , German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952 )
- March 3 - Henry Wood , British conductor (d. 1944 )
- March 12 - George William Forbes , New Zealand Prime Minister and first leader of the New Zealand National Party (d. 1947 )
- March 14 - Algernon Blackwood , English writer (d. 1951 )
- March 18 - Neville Chamberlain , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1940 )
- March 21 - Florenz Ziegfeld , theatrical producer (d. 1932 )
- April 2 - Hughie Jennings , baseball player (d. 1928 )
- April 4 - Mary Colter , American architect (d. 1958 )
- April 8 - Harvey Cushing , American neurosurgeon (d. 1939 )
- April 11 - Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943 )
- April 27 - May Moss , Activist (d. July 18 , 1948 )
- May 5 - Hans Pfitzner , German composer (d. 1949 )
- May 20 - John Stone Stone , American physicist and inventor (d. 1943 )
- June 17 - Flora Finch , English-born comedienne (d. 1940 )
- June 27 - Hans Spemann , German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1941 )
- August 10 - Lawrence Binyon , English poet and scholar (d. 1943 )
- September 3 - Fritz Pregl , Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930 )
- September 17 - Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938 )
- September 23 - Mary Mallon , "Typhoid Mary" (d. 1938 )
- October 2 - Mahatma Gandhi , Indian political leader, Father Of The Nation (d. 1948 )
- October 25 - John Heisman , American football coach (d. 1936 )
- November 10 - Wayne Wheeler , American Temperance Movement leader (d. 1927 )
- November 11 - Victor Emmanuel III Of Italy , King (d. 1947 )
- November 20 - Herbert Tudor Buckland , seminal British Arts And Crafts architect (d. 1951 )
- November 22 - André Gide , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951 )
- November 25 - Herbert Greenfield , Premier Of Alberta , Canada (d. 1949 )
- November 30 - Gustaf Dalén , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937 )
- December 16 - Hristo Tatarchev , Bulgaria n revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace
- December 22 - Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet (d. 1935 )
- December 30 - Stephen Leacock , British-Canadian author and economist (d. 1944 )
- December 31 - Henri Matisse , French painter (d. 1954 )
: ''See also .''
- January 1 - Martin W. Bates , U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1786 ); James B. Longacre , fourth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint (b. 1794 )
- January 30 - William Carleton , Irish novelist (b. 1794 )
- February 15 - Mirza Ghalib , Indian poet (b. 1796 ).
- March 8 - Hector Berlioz , French composer (b. 1803 )
- March 20 - John Pascoe Grenfell , British admiral of the Brazilian Navy (b. 1800 )
- March 24 - Antoine-Henri Jomini , French general (b. 1779 )
- April 20 - Carl Loewe , German composer (b. 1796 )
- June 16 - Charles Sturt , Australian explorer (b. 1795 )
- June 20 - Hijikata Toshizou , Japanese military commander (b. 1835 )
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