MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD BORN DURING EACH YEAR - based on house-hold name status

19th century page - years 1800 to 1899

YEAR                            #1 MOST FAMOUS                                                                     #2 MOST FAMOUS                                                         #3 MOST FAMOUS

 

• January 6 – Anna Maria Hall, Irish writer (d. 1881)
• January 7 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
• January 26 - Elizabeth Ann Whitney, Mormon leader (d. 1882)
• February 6 – Achille Devιria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857)
• February 9 - Joseph von Fόhrich, Austrian painter (d. 1876)
• February 11 – William Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer (d. 1877)
• March 10 - George Hudson, English railway financier (d. 1871)
• March 16 – Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
• March 25 - Alexis Paulin Paris, French scholar and author (d. 1881)
• April 15 – James Clark Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1862)
• May 1 – James Black, creator of the original Bowie knife (d. 1870)
• May 5 – Louis Christophe Franηois Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
• May 8 – Armand Carrel, French writer (d. 1836)
• May 9 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
• June 2 – Nicholas P. Trist, secretary to Andrew Jackson (d. 1874)
• June 30 – Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1873)
• July 19 – Juan Jose Flores, former President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
• August 12 – Jean-Jacques Ampθre, French philologist, writer, and historian (d. 1864)
• August 22 – Frank Stone, English painter (d. 1859)
• October 14 – John Hogan, Irish sculptor (d. 1858)
• December 3 – France Prešeren, Slovenian romantic poet (d. 1849)

• January 3 – Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)
• February 1 – Thomas Cole, American artist (d. 1848)
• May 9 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English Member of Parliament and developer (d. 1866)
• May 11 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
• May 17 – Lovisa Εrberg, first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden (d. 1881)
• June 1 – Brigham Young, American religious leader and colonizer (d. 1877)
• June 4 – James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
• June 14 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
• June 30 – Frederic Bastiat, French philosopher (d. 1850)
• July 5 – David Farragut, American naval commander (d.1870)
• July 29 – George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
• November 3 – Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
• November 3 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
• November 13 – Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, queen of Prussia (d. 1873)
• December 11 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)

• February 11 – Lydia Maria Child, American abolitionist author (d. 1880)
• February 26 – Victor Hugo, French author (d. 1885)
• March 7 – Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter (d. 1873)
• April 4 – Dorothea Dix, American activist (d. 1887)
• July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, pθre, French author (d. 1870)
• July 26 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
• August 4 – Joseph Bonnell, Hero of the Texas Revolution (d. 1840)
• October 31 – Benoξt Fourneyron, French engineer (d. 1867)
• November 9 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
• November 19 – Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
• December 23 – Sara Coleridge, British scholar (d. 1852)
• Friedrich Hohe, German lithographer and painter (d. 1870)

• February 2 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862)
• February 15 – John Sutter, American pioneer (d. 1880)
• April 30 - Jeremiah E. Cary, American politician (d. 1888)
• May 25
  • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer (d. 1882)
• June 24 – George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887)
• July 10 – William Todd (1803–1873), American businessman, Canadian senate nominee
• July 24 – Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
• July 31 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
• August 27 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
• September 4 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
• September 27 – Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
• September 29 – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
• November 14 – Jacob Abbott, American writer (d. 1879)
• December 6 – Susanna Moodie, English writer (d. 1885)
• December 11 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)

• January 20 – Eugθne Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
• January 21 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
• February 7 – John Deere, American industrialist (d. 1886)
• March 8 – Alvan Clark, telescope manufacturer (d. 1887)
• March 14 – Johann Strauss Senior, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
• March 17 – Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
• March 20 – Neal Dow, mayor of Portland and Father of Prohibition (d. 1897)
• April 26 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
• June 1 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
• June 24 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
• July 4 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
• July 28 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
• September 8 – Eduard Mφrike, German poet (d. 1875)
• November 23 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• December 21 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)

• January 8 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
• January 27 – Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
• April 2 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
• August 29 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
• September 27 – George Mόller, Prussian evangelist and founder of the Ashley Down orphanage (d. 1898)
• November 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (d. 1847)
• November 28 – John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (d. 1852)
• December 23 – Joseph Smith, Jr., American prophet, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. (d. 1844)

• January 27 – Juan Crisσstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
• February 22 – Jσzef Kremer, Polish messianic philosopher (d. 1875)
• March 6 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
• March 12 – Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
• March 21 – Benito Juαrez, Mexican statesman and folk hero (d. 1872)
• April 3 – Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
• April 6 – Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar (d. 1876)
• April 9 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)
• May 2 – Catherine Labourι, French visionary and saint (d. 1876)
• May 20 – John Stuart Mill, British philosopher (d. 1873)
• June 12 – John Augustus Roebling, German-born engineer (d. 1869)
• June 28 – Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
• July 5 – James Dawson, Aboriginal Guardian (d. 1900)
• October 3 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)

• January 19 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
• February 27 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
• March 1 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader (d. 1898)
• March 14 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
• August 11 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
• September 16 – John Lenthall, American naval architect and shipbuilder (d. 1882)
• October 8 – Harriet Taylor, English philosophical writer (d. 1858)
• December 17 – John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)

• January 19 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
• January 27 – David Strauss, German theologian (d. 1874)
• February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
• February 26 – Honorι Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879)
• March 17 – Pierre-Louis Dietsch, French composer and conductor (d. 1865)
• April 13 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-born inventor (d. 1889)
• April 20 – Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873)
• May 22 – Gιrard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
• June 3 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States (d. 1889)
• June 16 – James Frederick Ferrier, Scottish metaphysical writer and philosopher
• June 17 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
• July 9 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and military leader (d. 1887)
• September 29 – Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
• October 6 – King Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863)
• November 2 – Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
• December 29 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)

• January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher, inventor of braille (d. 1852)
• January 15 – Cornelia Connelly, American founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus (d. 1879)
• January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
• February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
• February 12
  • Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
  • Charles Darwin, British naturalist (d. 1882)
• February 15 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884)
• March 31 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
• June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician (d. 1900)
• June 20 – Isaak August Dorner, German theologian (d. 1884)
• August 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British poet (d. 1892)
• August 8 – Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
• August 27 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician (d. 1891)
• October 22 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
• September 27 – Raphael Semmes, Officer in the USN and the CSN (d. 1877)
• November 27 – Fanny Kemble, British-born American actress and writer (d. 1893)
• December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
• December 29 – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
• date unknown – Samuel Ajayi Crowther, 1st Black Anglican Bishop, pioneer linguist (d. 1891)

• January 3 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer (d. 1897)
• March 1^[4] – Frιdιric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1849)
• March 2 – Pope Leo XIII (aka Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) (d. 1903)
• March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (d. 1886)
• May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
• May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
• June 8 – Robert Schumann, German composer and pianist (d. 1856)
• June 9 – Carl Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849)
• July 5 – P. T. Barnum, American showman (d. 1891)
• August 24 – Theodore Parker, American preacher, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist (d. 1860)
• September 29 – Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
• October 10 – James W. Marshall, American contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill (d. 1885)
• November 2 – Andrew A. Humphreys, American general and civil engineer (d. 1883)
• December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)
• December 24 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)

• January 6 – Charles Sumner, American senator and civil rights activitist (d. 1874)
• January 9 – Gilbert Abbott ΰ Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
• February 1 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (d. 1833)
• February 3 – Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)
• March 20 – Napoleon II of France (d. 1832)
• March 30 or March 31 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and inventor (d. 1899)
• May 11 - Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins and sideshow performers
• June 14 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (d. 1896)
• July 18 – William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (d. 1863)
• August 31 – Thιophile Gautier, French writer (d. 1872)
• September 19 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
• October 22 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer and pianist (d. 1886)
• October 25 - CFW Walther, German-American theologian (d. 1887)
• October 27 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan (d. 1843)

• January 13 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
• February 3 – William Fraser Tolmie, Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (d. 1886)
• February 7 – Charles Dickens, English writer (d. 1870)
• February 11 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1883)
• February 15 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (d. 1902)
• March 1 – Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
• March 6 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
• March 22 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, American anarchist and abolitionist (d. 1886)
• April 27 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
• April 29 – Emilie Hφgquist, Swedish dramatic star (d. 1846)
• May 7 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
• May 12 – Edward Lear, English artist and poet (d. 1888)
• July 2 – Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower (d. 1870)
• November 14 – Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (d. 1878)

• January 19 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor (d. 1898)
• January 21 – John C. Frιmont, American soldier and explorer (d. 1890)
• January 26 – Juan Pablo Duarte, founder of the Dominican Republic (d. 1876)
• February 11 – Otto Ludwig, German writer (d. 1865)
• March 18 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1863)
• March 19 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
• March 21 – James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (d. 1856)
• March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
• May 5 – Sψren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
• May 22 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
• June 24 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)
• July 19 – Samuel M. Kier, American industrialist (d. 1874)
• September 17 – John Sedgwick, Union Army General, American Civil War (d. 1864)
• September 24 – Gerardo Barrios, President of El Salvador (d. 1865)
• October 9 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
• October 17 – Georg Bόchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
• November 30 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)

• January 27 – Eugθne Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
• February 18 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician and temperance activist (d. 1900)
• April 21 – Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906)
• May 12 – Adolf von Henselt, German composer
• July 19 – Samuel Colt, American gun maker (d. 1862)
• August 8 – Esther Morris, American suffragist and judge (d. 1902)
• August 10 – Henri Nestlι, German-born Swiss chocolate magnate (d. 1890)
• August 28 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
• September 2 – Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and historian (d. 1896)
• September 8 – Charles Ιtienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874)
• October 4 – Jean-Franηois Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
• October 7 – Susanna Dickinson, survivor of the Alamo
• October 15 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer (d. 1841)
• November 6 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker and inventor (d. 1894)
• November 22 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
• December 18 – Sarah Tittle Bolton nιe: Barrett, American poet (d. 1893)
• December 13 – Ana Nιri, Brazilian nurse, matron of nursing in that country (d. 1880)

• January 11 – John A. Macdonald, First Prime Minister of Canada, Father of Confederation (d. 1891)
• April 1 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898)
• April 6 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
• April 24 – Anthony Trollope, British author (d. 1882)
• May 27 – Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Australian Federation (d. 1896)
• August 5 – Edward John Eyre, explorer (d. 1901)
• October 16 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
• November 2 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
• December 10 – Augusta Ada King (nιe Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer and the daughter of Lord Byron (d. 1852)
• November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
• December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter (d. 1879)

• March 14 – William Marsh Rice, American university founder (d. 1900)
• April 21 – Charlotte Brontλ, British novelist (d. 1855)
• April 22 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
• April 25 – Eliza Daniel Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1908)
• May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, American painter (d. 1868)
• June 19 – William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1899)
• June 30 – Richard Lindon, Inventor of the Rugby Ball (d. 1887)
• July 4 – Arthur de Gobineau, French diplomat and author (d. 1882)
• July 23 – Charlotte Cushman, American stage actress (d. 1876)
• July 31 – George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
• November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
• December 13 – Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1892)

• January 6 – J. J. McCarthy, Irish architect (d. 1882)
• February 19 – King William III of the Netherlands (d. 1890)
• March 22 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
• May 19 – Theodor August Heintzman, Canadian piano manufacturer (d. 1899)
• July 12 – Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher (d. 1862)
• July 15 – John Fowler, British civil engineer (d. 1898)
• July 29 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
• August 14 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
• August 24 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
• November 3 – Leonard Jerome, American entrepreneur and grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill (d. 1891)
• November 12 – Bahα'u'llαh, Persian founder of the Bahα'ν Faith (d. 1892)
• November 17 – Benjamin Champney, American painter (d. 1907)
• November 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)

• January 30 – Artϊr Gφrgey, Hungarian military general and politician (d. 1916)
• March 22 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
• April 4 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
• April 8 – King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
• April 17 – Emperor Alexander II of Russia (d. 1881)
• May 5 – Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
• June 17
  • Sophie of Wόrttemberg, Dutch queen (d. 1877)
  • Charles Gounod, French composer (d. 1893)

• July 18 – Celadon Leeds Daboll, American merchant and inventor (d. 1866)
• July 30 – Emily Brontλ, British novelist (d. 1848)
• September 1 – Josι Marνa Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)
• October 8 – John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (d. 1905)
• October 18 – Edward Ord, U.S. Army officer (d. 1883)
• November 9 (October 28 (O.S.)) – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
• December 13 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)

• January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
• February 8 – John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic (d. 1900)
• February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (d. 1890)
• February 20 – Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
• February 22 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
• April 4 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
• April 11 – Charles Hallι, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
• April 18 – Franz von Suppι, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
• May 5 – Stanisław Moniuszko, Polish composer (d. 1872)
• May 24 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
• May 27 – Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist and poet (d. 1910)
• May 31 – Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
• June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
• June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (d. 1880)
• July 19 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
• August 1
  • Richard Dadd, British painter (d. 1886)
  • Herman Melville, American novelist (d. 1891)
• August 25 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective (d. 1884)
• August 26 – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
• September 7 – Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
• September 13 – Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist (d. 1896)
• September 22 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
• September 28 – Narcνs Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (d. 1885).
• October 20 – The Bαb, Persian founder of the Bαbi Faith (d. 1850)
• November 22 – George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
• December 10 – Felice Orsini, Italian revolutionary (d. 1858)
• December 30 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)

• January 10 – Louisa Lane Drew, actress and prominent theater manager, grandmother of the Barrymores (d. 1897)
• January 17 – Anne Brontλ, English author (d. 1849)
• February 8 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American Civil War general (d. 1891)
• February 13 – James Geiss, English businessman (d. 1878)
• February 15 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist (d. 1906)
• February 17 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1881)
• February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
• March 2 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (d. 1887)
• March 3 – Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist and temperance movement pioneer (d. 1900)
• April 27 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903)
• May 12 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
• May 27 – Mathilde Bonaparte, Italian princess (d. 1904)
• July 9 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (d. 1887)
• July 23 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
• October 5 – David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
• November 28 – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (d. 1895)

• January 8
  • James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
  • W.H.L. Wallace, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
• January 16 – John C. Breckinridge, United States Vice president and Confederate Secretary of State.
• February 3 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first American female physician (d. 1910).
• February 11 - Hermann Allmers, writer (d. 1902)
• February 17 – Lola Montez, Irish Spanish dancer and royal mistress (d. 1861)
• March 12 – Sir John Abbott, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
• April 3 – Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale English mystic (d. 1892)
• April 9 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer (d. 1867)
• May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1885)
• July 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
• July 24 – William Poole, infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (d. 1855)
• August 10 – Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
• August 21 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer (d. 1892)
• September 28 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, African-American minister and politician (d. 1874)
• October 13 – Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
• November 11 – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
• December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
• December 25 – Clara Barton, first president of American Red Cross (d. 1912)

• January 25 – Charles Reed Bishop, preeminent businessman and philanthropist in Hawaii (d. 1915)
• January 28 – Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
• February 4 – Edward Fitzgerald Beale, American Navy Lieutenant and explorer (d. 1893)
• February 16 – Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
• April 3 – Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
• April 26 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
• April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
• May 26 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
• June 10 – John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (d. 1890)
• October 4 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
• October 5 – Hans Hampel, Czech composer and pianist (d. 1884)
• October 6 – Benjamin F. Isherwood, American admiral and United States Navy Engineer-in-Chief (d. 1915)
• December 10 – Cιsar Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
• December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)

• January 1 – Sαndor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
• January 8 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
• January 27 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
• February 27 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer (d. 1892)
• March 14 – Thιodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
• March 20 – Ned Buntline, American publisher, writer, and publicist (d. 1886)
• March 23 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
• April 1 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier and politician and Confederate soldier (d. 1914)
• May 22 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
• July 6 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist (d. 1895)
• August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California orange industry (d. 1898)
• August 11– Charlotte Mary Yonge-English Author (d.1901)
• December 6 – Friedrich Max Mόller, German Orientalist (d. 1900)

• January 8 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
• January 15 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
• January 21 – Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate general (d. 1863)
• February 14 – Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War Union general (d. 1886)
• March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1885)
• March 19 – William Allingham, Irish author (d. 1889)
• March 25 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
• May 16 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1920)
• May 23 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general (d. 1881)
• July 12 – Eugθne Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
• July 27 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French writer (d. 1895)
• August 7 – Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader (d. 1907)
• September 4 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)
• September 4 – Phoebe Cary, American poet, sister to Alice Cary (1820–1871) (d. 1871)
• October 18 – Juan Valera y Alcalα-Galiano, Spanish author (d. 1905)
• December 10 – George MacDonald, Scottish writer (d. 1905)
• December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)

1825 - 13 most famous people born during 1825 - 0 are still alive

• January 25 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
• January 31 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene poet in Hungary (d. 1883)
• March 13 – Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (d. 1903)^[1]
• March 21 – Alexander Mozhaysky, Russian aeronautical pioneer (d. 1890)
• April 24 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish novelist (d. 1894)
• May 4 – Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (d. 1895)
• May 8 – George Bruce Malleson, English officer and author (d. 1898)
• August 31 – Robert Dunsmuir Scottish industrialist and politician (d. 1889)
• September 13 William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor (d. 1874)
• October 10 – Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (d. 1904)
• October 25 – Johann Strauss, Junior, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
• November 9 – A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
• December 30 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician (d. 1891)

1826 - 16 most famous people born during 1826 - 0 are still alive

1827 - 11 most famous people born during 1827 - 0 are still alive

• March 8 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
• May 11 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
• May 21 – William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
• May 27 – Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
• June 12 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
• July 13 – Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston (d. 1895)
• September 3 – John Drew Sr., Irish-American stage actor & manager, (d. 1862)
• November 7 – Antti Ahlstrφm, Finnish industrialist (d. 1896)
• November 10 – J.T. Wamelink, American composer (d. 1910)
• November 26 – Ellen G. White, American religious leader (d. 1915)
• December 3 – Jain Acharya Rajendrasuri, religious reformer (d. 1906)

• January 10 – Franηois de Neufchβteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
• March 12 – Jack Randall, early boxing champion
• April 16 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
• May 8 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (b. 1781)
• June 21 – Leandro Fernαndez de Moratνn, dramatist and poet (b. 1760)
• July 15 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
• September 20 – George Bethune English, American explorer and writer (b. 1797)
• September 22 – Shaka, the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)
• November 19 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
• December 4 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• December 22 - Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, wife of U.S. President Andrew Jackson (b. 1767)

• January 1 – Tommaso Salvini, Italian actor (d. 1915)
• January 17 – Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (d. 1890)
• January 21 – King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
• February 2 - William Stanley, inventor and engineer (d. 1909)
• February 26 – Levi Strauss, American clothing designer (d. 1902)
• March 2 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman (d. 1906)
• March 19 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
• April 10 – William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army (d. 1912)
• May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist (d. 1869)
• June 8 – John Everett Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1896)
• June 16 – Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
• October 5 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
• November 9 – Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army (d. 1918)
• November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1894)

• February 3 – Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
• March 15 – Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
• March 30 – Mihαly Zsupαnek Slovene writer, poet and soldier in Hungary (d. 1898? 1905)
• May 5 – John Batterson Stetson, hat maker (d. 1906)
• July 10 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
• July 20 – Fanny Janauschek, Czech-born actress (d. 1904)
• July 25 – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (d. 1926)
• August 18 – Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916)
• September 2 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
• September 8 – Frιdιric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
• September 12 – William Sprague IV, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
• September 22- Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor prominent American socialite (d. 1908)
• December 10 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
• December 17 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1870)

• January 7 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postal union organizer (d. 1897)
• January 8 – John Stith Pemberton, Inventor of Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
• February 24 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
• March 3 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
• March 12 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile pioneer (d. 1901)
• March 16 – Elise Hwasser, Swedish artist (d. 1894)
• March 20 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. 1881)
• June 1 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
• June 2 – Jan Gerard Palm, composer (d. 1906)
• August 12 – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born author and theosophist (d. 1891)
• September 18 – Siegfried Marcus, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1898)
• September 20 – Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (d. 1917)
• October 18 – Emperor Frederick III of Germany (d. 1888)
• November 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th United States President (d. 1881)
• November 26 – Anna Leonowens, Anna of The King and I

• January 4 – George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
• January 6 – Gustave Dorι, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
• January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American Unitarian minister and author (d. 1899)
• January 23 – Ιdouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883)
• January 27 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
• February 18 – Octave Chanute, French-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1910)
• October 1 – Caroline Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1892)
• August 8 – King Georg I of Saxony (d. 1904)
• November 7 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian, diplomat, and co-founder of Cornell University (d. 1918)
• November 12 – Nancy Edberg, Swedish pioneer in women swimming (d. 1892)
• November 28 – Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (d. 1904)
• November 29 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (d. 1888)
• December 13 – Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian abolitionist(d. 1897)
• December 21 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)

• January 1 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
• February 19 – Ιlie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1906)
• February 25 – John St. John, American temperance movement leader (d. 1916)
• May 7 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
• August 3 – Auguste Schmidt, German educator and womans' rights activist
• August 20 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
• October 21 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
• November 6 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
• November 9 – Ιmile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
• November 12 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (d. 1887)
• December 6 – Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (d. 1914)
• December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law (d. 1889)

• January 7 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
• February 8 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
• February 9 – Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)
• March 17 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor (d. 1900)
• March 23 – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858)
• March 24 – William Morris, English poet and artist (d. 1896)
• March 24 – John Wesley Powell, American explorer (d. 1902)
• April 1 – Big Jim Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872)
• April 2 – Frιdιric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
• April 26 – Artemus Ward, American humorist (d. 1867)
• May 23 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish sculptor (d. 1890)
• July 11 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (d. 1903)
• July 19 – Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
• August 22 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, and aeronautics pioneer (d. 1906)
• August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
• September 9 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
• October 8 – Walter Kittredge, American composer (d. 1905)

• February 18 – Cιsar Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)
• March 12 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American Astronomer (d. 1909)
• March 14 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
• March 15 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
• April 9 – King Lιopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
• May 3 – Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
• June 2 – Pope Pius X, (d. 1914)
• June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress (d. 1868)
• June 26 – Thomas W. Knox, American author and journalist (d. 1896)
• July 7 – Ernest Giles, Australian explorer (d. 1897)
• July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
• August 2 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and businessman (d. 1901)
• September 30 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist (d. 1910)
• October 7 – Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
• October 9 – Camille Saint-Saλns, French composer (d. 1921)
• October 23 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
• November 17 – Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
• November 21 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
• November 25 – Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• December 4 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
• December 18 – Lyman Abbott, American clergyman and author (d. 1922)

• January 2 – Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian Yiddish writer (d. 1917)
• January 10 – Charles Phillip Ingalls, Pioneer father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. June 8, 1902)
• January 14 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
• January 27 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
• February 18 – Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Bengali religious leader (d. 1886)
• February 21 – Lιo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)
• February 24 – Winslow Homer, American painter. 1910)
• March 20 - Sir Edward Poynter, French-born artist (d. 1919)
• May 23 – Touch the Clouds, native American chieftain of Teton Lakota Sioux.
• May 27 – Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
• May 28 - Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1916)
• August 25 – Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
• September 7 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
• September 11 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
• September 26 – Thomas Crapper, plumber, inventor (d. 1910)
• October 15 – James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
• November 11 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
• November 18 – W. S. Gilbert, British playwright and librettist best known for his collaborations with Arthur Sullivan (d. 1911)

• January 2 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
• January 7 – Thomas Henry Ismay, known for acquiring the WSL flag
• February 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer (d. 1914)
• March 18 – Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (d. 1908)
• March 23 – Charles Wyndham, English actor and theatrical manager (d. 1919)
• April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
• April 17 – John Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker (d. 1913)
• May 9 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
• May 27 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
• May 28 – Tony Pastor, American impresario and theater owner (d. 1908)
• June 22 – Touch the Clouds, Native American Minneconjou chief 7 feet tall (d. 1905)
• july 4 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (d. 1917)
• August 24 – Thιodore Dubois, French composer (d. 1924)
• October 10 – Robert Gould Shaw, American Civil War General, reformer (d. 1863)
• October 29 – Harriet Powers, African-American folk artist (d. 1910)
• November 2 – Ιmile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
• November 20 – Lewis Waterman, American inventor and businessman (d.1901)
• December 15 – George B. Post American architect (d. 1913)

• January 4 – General Tom Thumb, American circus performer and entertainer (d. 1883)
• January 6 – Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
• January 16 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
• February 6 – Henry Irving, English actor (d. 1905)
• February 16 – Henry Brooks Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
• April 3 – John Willis Menard, African-American politician (d. 1893)
• April 12 – John Shaw Billings, M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913)
• April 16 – Martha McClellan Brown, American temperance movement leader (d. 1916)
• May 10 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (d. 1865)
• July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer and founder of the Zeppelin Company (d. 1917)
• September 2 – Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
• October 6 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
• October 25 – Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
• November 20 – Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm, pioneer actor (d. 1907)
• December 19 – Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
• December 20 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian and author (d. 1926)

• January 19 – Paul Cιzanne, French painter (d. 1906)
• February 11 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist and chemist (d. 1903)
• February 18 – Pascual Cervera y Topete, Spanish admiral (d. 1909)
• February 22 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
• March 9 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
• March 15 – Daniel Ridgway Knight, American artist (d. 1924)
• March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish artist (d. 1922)
• March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)
• April 12 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
• June 17 – Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1931)
• June 21 – Machado de Assis, Brazilian author (d. 1908)
• July 8 – John Davison Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
• July 17 – Ephraim Shay, inventor of the Shay locomotive (d. 1916)
• August 4 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic (d. 1894)
• September 21 – Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist (d. 1897)
• October 9 – Winfield Scott Schley, American admiral (d. 1911)
• November 20 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
• December 5 – George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer (d. 1876)
• December 12 – Caroline Lake Ingalls, nιe Quiner, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1924)

• February 4 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American firearms inventor (d. 1916)
• February 5 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (d. 1921)
• February 29 – John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914)
• April 2 – Emile Zola, French writer (d. 1902)
• April 22 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
• May 7 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
• May 13 – Alphonse Daudet, French writer (d. 1897)
• June 2 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
• June 2 – Emile Munier, French artist (d. 1895)
• June 10 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
• June 13 – Augusta Lundin, Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
• June 21 – Edward Stanley Gibbons, English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd (d. 1913)
• August 4 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German sexologist (d. 1902)
• October 9 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
• November 7 – H. G. Haugan, Norwegian-born American railroad executive
• November 12 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917)
• November 14 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• November 21 – Victoria, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and Empress of Germany (d. 1901)
• November 29 – Rhoda Broughton, Welsh writer (d. 1920)

• January 14 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
• January 23 – Constant Coquelin, French actor,Cyrano de Bergerac (d. 1909)
• January 28 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
• February 4 – Clιment Ader, French engineer, inventor, and airplane pioneer (d. 1926)
• February 18 – Gergely Luthαr, Hungarian Slovene writer (d. 1925)
• February 25 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (d. 1919)
• April 10 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, diplomat and writer (d.1882)
• April 13 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
• May 10 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1918)
• June 1 – Edward Lyon Buchwalter, Captain of American Civil War, President of Superior Drill Company, President of American Seeding Machine Company and first President of The Citizens National Bank of Springfield, Ohio (d. 1933)
• September 8 – Antonνn Dvořαk, Czech composer (d. 1904)
• September 8 – Charles J. Guiteau, American lawyer and assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
• November 9 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
• November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
• December 6 – Frιdιric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)

• January 11 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
• February 3 – Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)
• February 4 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (d. 1918)
• February 25 – Karl May, German writer (d. 1912)
• March 2 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (d. 1914)
• March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
• March 18 – Stιphane Mallarmι, French poet (d. 1898)
• May 13 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
• June 12 – Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (d. 1866)
• June 24 – Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, American writer and satirist (d. ca. 1914)
• July 4 – Hermann Cohen, German-Jewish philosopher (d. 1918)
• October 14 – Joe Start, baseball player (d. 1927)
• October 28 – Anna Elizabeth Dickenson, American orator (d. 1932)

• January 10 – Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
• January 29 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
• April 15 – Henry James, American writer (d. 1916)
• April 25 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, third child of Queen Victoria (d. 1878)
• June 3 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
• June 15 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
• August 31 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
• September 4 – Jαn Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer (d. 1936)
• November 25 – Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
• November 27 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (d. 1899)
• November 29 – Gertrude Jekyll, British garden designer, writer and artist (d. 1932)
• December 28 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, American author of dime fiction (d. 1904)

• January 9 – Juliαn Gayarre, Spanish opera singer (d. 1890)
• February 17 – Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
• February 21 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
• March 18 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
• March 30 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
• May 21 – Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
• May 22 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
• May 23 – `Abdu'l-Bahα, Persian Bahα'ν religious leader (d. 1921)
• June 3 – Garret A. Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
• July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
• August 5 – Ilya Repin, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1930)
• August 6 – Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
• August 23 – Hamilton Disston, American land developer (d. 1896)
• August 29 – Edward Carpenter, English Socialist poet (d. 1929)
• September 16 – Claude-Paul Taffanel, French flutist and composer (d. 1908)
• October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
• October 22 – Louis Riel, Canadian leader (d. 1885)
• October 23 - Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
• November 23 – Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer (d. 1929)
• December 1 – Alexandra of Denmark, queen of Edward VII of England (d. 1925)
• December 8 – Ιmile Reynaud, French science teacher and animation pioneer (d. 1918)

1845 - 14 most famous people born during 1845 - 0 are still alive

• February 14 – Quintin Hogg, British philanthropist (d. 1903)
• March 10 – Emperor Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
• April 24 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• May 12 – Gabriel Faurι, French composer (d. 1924)
• May 17 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902)
• May 25 – Eugθne Grasset, Swiss-born artist (d. 1917)
• May 30 – King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
• June 7 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
• July 18 – Tristan Corbiθre, French poet (d. 1875)
• August 19 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (d. 1934)
• August 25 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
• October 21 – William McKendree Carleton, American poet (d. 1912)
• November 10 – John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1894)
• December 9 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (d. 1908)

1846 - 14 most famous people born during 1846 - 0 are still alive

• January 5 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
• January 27 – M. Lewis Clark American founder of Kentucky Derby (d. 1899)
• February 2 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (d. 1931)
• February 9 – Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer (d. 1929)
• February 18 – Wilson Barrett, English actor (d. 1904)
• February 26 – William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917)
• April 4 – Comte de Lautreamont, French writer (d. 1870)
• May 3 – Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, English inventor and studio potter (d. 1920)
• May 5 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• May 25 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
• June 11 – William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
• July 26 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
• September 16 – Anna Kingsford, British spiritual writer, doctor, feminist and pioneering vegetarian.
• September 21 – Mihαly Kolossa, Hungarian Slovene writer (d. 1906)

• February 8 – Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer, first Superintendent of the West London Mission (d. 1902)
• February 11 – Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
• February 15 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d. 1927)
• February 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
• March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (d. 1922)
• March 14 – Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (d. 1871)
• April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born journalist and newspaper publisher (d. 1911)
• May 7 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)
• June 8 – Ida Saxton McKinley, U.S. First Lady (d. 1907)
• September 5 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
• October 2 – Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany (d. 1934)
• October 14 – Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (d. 1935)
• November 8 – Bram Stoker, creator of the Gothic novel Dracula (d. 1912)
• December 7 – George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (d. 1912)
• December 18 – Augusta Holmθs, French composer (d. 1903)
• December 28 – Giuseppe Maria Giulietti, Italian explorer (d. 1881)

• January 21 – Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
• January 24 – Vasily Surikov Russian painter (d. 1916)
• February 5 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (d. 1889)
• February 16 – Octave Mirbeau, French art critic and novelist (d. 1917)
• February 18 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)
• February 25 – King William II of Wόrttemberg (d. 1921)
• February 27 – Hubert Parry, English composer (d. 1918)
• March 3 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)
• March 18 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)
• March 19 – Wyatt Earp, American lawman and gunfighter (d. 1929)
• March 31 – Viscount William Astor, British financier and statesman (d. 1919)
• April 27 – King Otto of Bavaria (d. 1916)
• June 7 – Paul Gauguin, French artist (d. 1903)
• July 10 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777)
• July 22 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
• July 25 - Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
• September 4 – Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor (d. 1928)
• October 3 – Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
• November 8 – Gottlob Frege, German logician (d. 1925)
• November 13 – Albert I, Prince of Monaco (d. 1922)
• November 28 – Henry Lomb, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (d. 1908)
• December 6 – Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (d. 1925)

• January 14 – James Moore, winner of the first ever cycle race (d. 1935)
• January 22 – August Strindberg, Swedish author, playwright, and painter (d. 1912)
• February 13 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman (d. 1895)
• February 18 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906)
• April 6 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (d. 1917)
• May 3 – Bernhard von Bόlow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
• June 9 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
• July 22 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
• July 29 – Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
• August 28 – Benjamin Godard, French composer (d. 1895)
• September 3 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)
• September 21 – Maurice Barrymore, British-American stage actor and playwright, (d. 1905)
• November 24 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American playwright and author (d. 1924)
• November 29 – John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1945)
• December 4 – Crazy Horse, Chief of the Oglala Sioux (d. 1877)
• December 12 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (d. 1920)

• January 6 – Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1924)
• January 15 - Leonard Darwin, son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin (d. 1943)
• January 17 – Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
• January 19 – Augustine Birrell, English author and politician (d. 1933)
• January 24 - Mary Noailles Murfree, American novelist (d. 1922)
• January 27 - Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
• February 18 – George Henschel, English musician (d. 1934)
• February 23 – Cιsar Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
• April 9 – Julius Wernher, German-born British businessman and art collector (d. 1912)
• April 10 – Fanny Davenport, actress (d. 1898)
• April 13 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
• April 20 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)
• May 1 – Prince Arthur of the United Kingdom (d. 1942)
• May 3 – Johnny Ringo, American cowboy (d. 1882)
• May 10 – Thomas Lipton, Scottish merchant and yachtsman (d. 1931)
• May 12 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American statesman (d. 1924)
• May 26 – James Kenyon, British pioneer of cinematography (d. 1925)
• May 27 – Thomas Neill Cream, serial killer (d. 1892)
• June 3 – Albert M. Todd, American businessman and politician (d. 1931)
• June 5 – Pat Garrett, American bartender and sheriff (d. 1908)
• June 18 – Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, American publisher (d. 1933)
• July 31 - Robert Planquette, French composer of stage musicals (d. 1903)
• August 13 – Philip Bourke Marston, English poet (d. 1887)
• October 26 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, author of many books on ancient Dacia (d. 1909)
• November 2 – Antonio Jacobsen, maritime artist (d. 1921)
• November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (d. 1894)

• January 17 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
• February 8 – Kate Chopin, American writer (d. 1904)
• March 18 – Julien Duprι, Fench artist (d. 1910)
• March 19 – William Henry Stark, business leader (d. 1936)
• March 27 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
• April 17 – Madre Teresa Nuzzo, Foundress of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart (d. 1923)
• May 5 – Matthew Kapelewski, Polish-American poet and novelist (d. 1883)
• May 6 – Aristide Bruant, French cabaret singer and comedian (d. 1925)
• May 20 – Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929)
• July 15 – Eduardo Gutiιrrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
• August 14 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
• September 14 – H.E. Beunke, Dutch writer (d. 1925)
• September 16 – Eduard Reuss, German composer and music biographer (d. 1911)
• October 2 – Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces in World War I (d. 1929)
• October 20 – George Gandy, American entrepreneur (d. 1946)
• December 10 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification (d. 1931)
• December 30 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (d. 1929)

• January 11 – Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
• February 16 – Charles Taze Russell (Pastor Russell), prominent Protestant reformer and evangelist (d. 1916)
• April 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (d. 1911)
• April 13 – F.W. Woolworth, American merchant and businessman (d. 1919)
• April 22 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
• May 4 – Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (d. 1934)
• September 10 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
• September 12 – Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
• September 30 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in England (d. 1924)

• January 16 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, actor (d. 1937)
• March 5 – Howard Pyle, American artist and fictional writer (d. 1911)
• March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
• March 30 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
• April 7 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (d. 1884)
• May 28 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
• June 3 – William Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
• July 24 – William Gillette, American actor, playwright and stage-manager (d. 1937)
• September 21 – Edmund Leighton, English painter (d. 1922)
• October 17 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 1920)
• October 30 – Louise Abbιma French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Ιpoque (d. 1927)
• November 13 – John Drew, Jr., American stage actor, (d. 1927)

• May 24 – John Riley Banister, American law officer and Texas Ranger (d. 1918)
• June 14 – Dave Rudabaugh, American outlaw and gunfighter (d. 1886)
• June 26 – Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937)
• July 3 – Leoš Janαček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
• July 12 – George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak) (d. 1932)
• August 23 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
• September 1 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
• October 16 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• October 26 – C. W. Post, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1914)
• October 20 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
• November 6 – John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor (Stars and Stripes Forever) (d. 1932)
• November 13 –George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer (d. 1931)
• November 21 – Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)

• January 5 – King Camp Gillette, American razor 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)
• February 20 – John R. Lindgren, Founder of the banking firm Haugan & Lindgren (d. 1915)
• March 24 – Andrew Mellon, American banker and philanthropist (d. 1937)
• May 1 – Marie Corelli, English novelist (d. 1924)
• May 9 – Julius Rφntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932)
• May 10 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Author of The Holy Science
• May 21 – Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (d. 1916)
• November 6 – Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)

• January 11 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (d. 1941)
• January 12 – John Singer Sargent, American-born artist (d. 1925)
• February 2 – Frederick William Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (d. 1938)
• February 14 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (d. 1931)
• February 21 or February 28 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (d. 1879)
• March 16 – Napolιon Eugθne Louis John Joseph, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III (d. 1879)
• April 23 – Granville T. Woods, African-American inventor (d. 1910)
• May 6 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
• May 15 – L. Frank Baum, American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker (The Wizard of Oz) (d. 1919)
• July 11 – Georgiana Drew, American stage actress, married Maurice Barrymore in 1876, (d. 1893)
• July 26 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
• October 30 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (d. 1889)
• November 24 – Bat Masterson, American lawman (d. 1921)
• November 29 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1921)
• December 11 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (d. 1918)
• December 25 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913)
• December 28 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924)

• January 11 – William Gentles, US army private, known for killing Crazy Horse (d. 1932)
• January 26 – the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
• February 13 – Almanzo James Wilder, American writer (d. 1949)
• February 22 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of the Scouting movement (d. 1941)
• March 8 – Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919)
• April 14 – Princess Beatrice, youngest child of Queen Victoria (d. 1944)
• April 22 – Paul Dresser, American songwriter (d. 1906)
• May 24 – Richard Mansfield, Anglo-American stage actor (d. 1907)
• May 31 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
• June 2 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
• June 12 – Kate Lester, English stage & silent screen actress (d. 1924)
• July 25 – Nat C. Goodwin, American actor (d. 1919)
• July 28 – Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
• July 30 - Lucy Bacon, Californian Impressionist painter (d. 1932)
• August 14 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
• September 8 – Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
• September 13 - 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 - Joseph Tabrar, British songwriter (d. 1931)
• November 17 – George Marchant, English-born inventor, manufacturer, and philanthropist (d. 1941)
• November 28 – King Alfonso XII of Spain (d. 1885)
• December 3 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist (d. 1924)

• January 11 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (d. 1947)
• February 19 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1939)
• March 18 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
• March 30 – De Wolf Hopper, actor & comedian (d. 1935)
• May 8 – Heinrich Bertι, Austrian operetta composer (d. 1924)
• June 16
  • King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950)
  • William D. Boyce, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (d. 1929)
• June 20 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist, political activist (d. 1932)
• June 28 – Otis Skinner, American stage & film actor (d. 1943)
• August 1 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
• August 13 – George Edward MacKenzie Skues, British inventor of nymph fly fishing (d. 1949)
• September 16 – Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
• October 3 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
• October 27 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
• December 22 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)

• January 27 – Wilhelm II of Germany, last Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (d. 1941)
• February 1 – Henry Miller, stage actor & producer (d. 1926)
• February 1 – Victor Herbert, Irish-born composer (Babes In Toyland) (d. 1924)
• February 6 – Elias Disney, American farmer and father of Walt Disney (d. 1941)
• February 14 – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896)
• March 2 – Sholom Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish novelist (d. 1916)
• March 8 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)
• March 26 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
• April 3 – Reginald De Koven, American composer and music critic (d. 1920)
• May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (d. 1930)
• June 21 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist (d. 1937)
• November 19 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)
• November 23 – Billy the Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881)
• December 2 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
• December 17 – Paul Cιsar Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)

• January 6
  • Raoul Gunsbourg, Romanian opera composer and impresario (d. 1955)
  • Morton Selten, British stage and film actor (d. 1939)
• January 9 - Valborg Aulin, Swedish pianist and composer (d. 1928)
• January 14 - Atanas Badev, Bulgarian composer (d. 1908)
• January 17
  • Charles K. French, American film actor (d. 1952)
  • Mary Watson, American folk heroine (d. 1881)
• January 25
  • Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
  • Paul Fιval, fils, French adventure novelist (d. 1933)
• January 29 - John William Lambert, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1952)
• February 2 - Buckey O'Neill, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1898)
• February 13 – Nienke van Hichtum, Dutch children's author (d. 1939)
• February 16 - Carl Venth, German-American composer, violinist and scholar (d. 1938)
• February 17 - Walter Slaughter, English composer and conductor (d. 1908)
• March 2 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States (d. 1961)
• March 13 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
• April 7 – Will Keith Kellogg, American industrialist, founder of the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)
• May 2 – Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism (d. 1904)
• May 7 – Tom Norman, English freak showman (d. 1930)
• May 9 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
• May 16 – Herman Webster Mudgett, American serial killer (d. 1896)
• May 29 – Isaac Albιniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
• July 7 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
• July 19 – Lizzie Borden, American murder suspect (d. 1927)
• August 13 – Annie Oakley, American west show performer (d. 1926)
• September 7 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, painter & centoginerean (d. 1961)
• October 31 – Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
• November 6 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1941)
• November 22 – Fusajiro Yamauchi, founder of Nintendo (d. 1940)
• December 15 - Abner Powell, Major league baseball player (d. 1953)
• December 31 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (d. 1937)

• January 6 – Jαnos Zsupαnek, Slovene (Prekmurian) poet and writer (d. 1951)
• January 30 – Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer (d. 1935)
• February 12 – Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author (d. 1937)
• February 17 – Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany, (d. 1922)
• February 26 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
• April 15 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
• April 23 - John Peltz, professional baseball player (d. 1906)
• May 14 – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (d. 1908)
• June 19 – Doctor Jose Rizal, Philippine national hero (d. 1896)
• June 22 – Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914)
• September 2 – Henrietta Crosman, American stage & film actress (d. 1944)
• 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 30 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
• November 6 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
• December 4 – Lillian Russell, American singer and vaudeville star (d. 1922)
• December 8 – Georges Mιliθs, French film director (d. 1938)
• December 15 - Charles Duryea, manufacturer of motor vehicles (d. 1938)
• December 16 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917)
• December 20 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926)

• January 9 – Carrie Clark Ward, character actress (d. 1926)
• January 15 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (d. 1928)
• January 24 – Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
• January 29 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
• February 25 – Stanisław Głąbiński, Polish politician, academic, lawyer and writer (d. 1941)
• March 13 – Jane Delano, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service (d. 1919)
• March 29 – Adolfo Mόller-Ury, artist (d. 1947)
• April 6 – Georges Darien, French writer (d. 1921)
• April 26 – Edmund Charles Tarbell, American artist (d. 1938)
• April 27 – Rudolph Schildkraut, Istanbul born American actor (d. 1930)
• May 27 – John Kendrick Bangs, American author and satirist (d. 1922)
• June 10 – Caroline Louise Dudley aka (Mrs. Leslie Carter), stage & screen actress (d. 1937)
• June 27 – May Irwin, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1938)
• August 5 – Joseph Carey Merrick, English oddity (d. 1890)
• August 21 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (d. 1911)
• August 22 – Claude Debussy, French composer (died 1918)
• September 11 – O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
• October 19 – Auguste Lumiθre, French inventor (d. 1954)
• November 14 – George Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1914)
• November 19 – Billy Sunday, American baseball player, evangelist, prohibitionist (d. 1935)
• December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)

• January 1 – Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (d. 1937)
• January 12 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian religious leader (d. 1902)
• January 15 – Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
• January 17 – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
• January 17 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner and founder of modern realistic acting (d. 1938)
• January 28 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
• March 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (d. 1938)
• March 27 – Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
• April 29 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (d. 1951)
• May 24 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
• June 2 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
• June 13 – Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1942)
• July 21 – C. Aubrey Smith, English actor (d. 1948)
• July 30 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (d. 1947)
• August 17 – Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (d. 1924)
• September 21 – John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
• October 11 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
• October 18 – Tommy Tucker, 19th century baseball pioneer (d. 1935)
• November 20 – Zeffie Tilbury, stage & film actress(daughter of Lydia Thompson) (d. 1950)
• December 5 – Pattillo Higgins, oil pioneer and businessman, known as the "Prophet of Spindletop" (d. 1955)
• December 7 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945)
• December 12 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
• December 16 – George Santayana, philosopher, poet, essayist and novelist (d. 1952)
• December 18 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914)

• January 8 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (d. 1892)
• January 24 – Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936)
• February 7 – Arthur Collins, American singer who recorded many early songs (d. 1933)
• March 14 – Casey Jones, American railway engineer (d. 1900)
• March 15 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
• May 10 – Lιon Gaumont, French film pioneer (d. 1946)
• May 15 – Vilhelm Hammershψi, Danish painter (d. 1916)
• June 3 – Ransom E. Olds, automotive pioneer (d. 1950)
• June 11 – Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
• July 12 – George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
• July 13 – John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman and inventor (d. 1912)
• July 15 – Marie Tempest, English stage & film actress (d. 1942)
• October 25 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
• November 23 – Henry Bourne Joy, American business leader (d. 1936)
• November 24 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
• December 6 – William S. Hart, American film actor (d. 1946)

• January 10 – Mary Amelia Ingalls, blind older sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. October 20, 1928)
• February 9 – Beatrice Stella Tanner aka Mrs. Patrick Campbell, actress & producer (d. 1940)
• March 19 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist (d. 1937)
• June 3 – King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
• June 9 – Albιric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
• June 9 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
• June 13 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
• June 19 – May Whitty, British stage & screen actress (d. 1948)
• July 23 – Max Heindel, Danish-born Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
• July 26 – Philipp Scheidemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939)
• July 29 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
• August 24 – King Ferdinand of Romania (d. 1927)
• August 27
  • James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
  • Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1951)
• October 1 – Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
• October 17 – James Rudolph Garfield, U.S. politician (d. 1950)
• October 22 – Raymond Hitchcock, American actor (d. 1929)
• November 2 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
• December 8 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
• December 19 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American stage actress (d. 1932)
• December 20 – Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950)
• December 25 – Fay Templeton, Broadway musical comedy star (d. 1939)
• December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)

• January 13 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
• February 9 – George Ade, American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright (d. 1944)
• April 1 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
• April 13 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1909)
• April 14 – Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller (d. 1936)
• May 17 – Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
• June 26 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
• July 3 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1906)
• July 28 – Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Peter Rabbit & Jemima Puddle-Duck) (d. 1943)
• August 17 – Julia Marlowe, stage actress (d. 1950)
• September 1 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
• September 21  - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
• October 12 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)
• November 28 – David Warfield, stage actor (d. 1951)
• December 16 (December 4 O.S.) – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born painter (d. 1944)

• January 1 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)
• January 17 – Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
• January 20 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
• February 7 – Laura Elizabeth Wilder, nιe Ingalls, American children's author (d. 1957)
• February 21 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire and philanthropist (d. 1934)
• February 27 – Nina Boucicault, actress(first ever to play Peter Pan), daughter of Dion Boucicault (d. 1950)
• February 27 – Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Swedish composer (d. 1942)
• March 6 – Samuel Cody, aviation pioneer, (d. 1913)
• March 25 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (d. 1957)
• March 29 – Cy Young, baseball player (d. 1955)
• April 16 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Orville (d. 1912)
• June 17 – Flora Finch, British-American silent film comedienne (d. 1940)
• June 24 – J. Gordon Edwards, American film director (d. 1925)
• July 8 – Kδthe Kollwitz, German artist (d. 1945)
• July 10 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
• July 25 – Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
• July 27 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
• August 3 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)
• August 11 – Hobart Bosworth, American film actor, director, writer, and producer (d. 1943)
• December 23 – Madam C.J. Walker, first African-American millionaire (d. 1919)

• January 6 – Vittorio Monti, Italian Composer (d. 1922)
• February 5, – Maxine Elliott, actress, (d. 1940)
• February 20 – John Nathan Cobb, American author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher, and educator (d. 1930)
• March 28 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
• April 10 – George Arliss, English actor (d. 1946)
• April 25 – John Bevins Moisant, American aviator, (d. 1910)
• April 25 – Willie Maley, Scottish football player and manager (d. 1958)
• May 6 – Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
• May 6 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
• May 29 – Abdul Mejid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1944)
• June 18 – Georges Lacombe, French artist (d. 1916)
• July 12 – Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
• July 17 – Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director (d. 1944)
• August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist. (d. 1950)
• September 1 – Henri Bourassa, Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
• September 9 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer of fiction and non-fiction (d. 1934)
• October 18 – Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (d. 1931)
• November 9 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
• November 14 – Arthur Hoey Davis, Australian author (d. 1935)
• November 22 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)
• December 19 – Eleanor Hodgman Porter, American novelist (d. 1920)
• December 25 – Eugenie Besserer, Silent film actress (d. 1934)

• February 26 – Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian Marxist revolutionary and Vladimir Lenin's wife (d.1939)
• 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, American theatrical producer (d. 1932)
• March 23 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955)
• April 11 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
• 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 comedian (d. 1940)
• August 10 – Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar (d. 1943)
• September 23 – Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary" (d. 1938)
• October 2 – Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)
• October 27 – Viola Allen, actress (d. 1948)
• November 22 – Andrι Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
• December 5 – Ellis Parker Butler, American humorist (d. 1937)
• December 20 – Charley Grapewin, American vaudeville performer and stage and film actor (d. 1956)
• 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)

• January 2 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1938)
• January 6 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
• January 11 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (d. 1945)
• February 12 – Marie Lloyd, English singer (d. 1922)
• March 4 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (d. 1944)
• March 5 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
• April 17 – Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (d. 1946)
• April 22 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and first Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)
• April 30 – Franz Lehαr, Austrian composer (d. 1948)
• June 20 – Georges Dufrιnoy, French post-impressionnist painter (d. 1943)
• July 3 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
• July 25 – Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
• August 3 – Carrie Ingalls, younger sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1946)
• August 4 – Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)
• December 5 – Vνtězslav Novαk, Czech composer (d. 1949)
• December 10 – Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
• December 12 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil pioneer (d. 1912)
• December 18 – Saki, English writer (d. 1916)

• January 30 – Wilfred Lucas, Canadian-born actor (d. 1940)
• February 4 – Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany (d. 1925)
• March 1 – Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (d. 1938)
• March 27 – Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
• May 6 - Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914)
• May 27 – Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
• June 14 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
• July 10 – Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
• July 17 – Lyonel Feininger, German painter (d. 1956)
• August 14 – Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
• August 19 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Wilbur (d. 1948)
• August 25 – Ross Winn, American anarchist writer and publisher (d. 1912)
• August 27 – Theodore Dreiser, American writer (d. 1945)
• September 26 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist and animator (d. 1934)
• November 1 – Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
• December 9 – Joe Kelley, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943)
• December 13 – Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)

• January 6 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
• January 31 – Zane Grey, American writer (d. 1939)
• March 3 – Willie Keeler, "hit 'em where they ain't" baseball legend (d. 1923).
• March 7 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
• March 11 – Kathleen Clarice Groom, British writer (d. 1954)
• March 15 – Harry Holman, American character actor (d. 1947)
• May 21 – Henry Warren, inventor of the first commercially viable electric clock, the Telechron
• May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 1944)
• June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (d. 1906)
• July 4 – Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States (d. 1933)
• August 10 – Bill Johnson, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
• August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (d. 1898)
• November 1 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1946)
• November 11 – Maude Adams, American stage actress (d. 1953)
• November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, surgeon and poet (d. 1918)
• December 21 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)

• January 4 – Blanche Walsh, stage & screen actress (d. 1915)
• January 7 – Adolph Zukor, Austrian-born film studio pioneer (d. 1976)
• January 8 - Grace Van Studdiford, American stage actress & opera singer (d. 1927)
• February 2 – Maurice Tourneur, French film director (d. 1961)
• February 19 – Louis Feuillade, French film director (d. 1925)
• February 25 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (d. 1921)
• March 8 – Anna Held, French actress, (d. 1918)
• March 11 – David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
• March 19 – Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)
• April 1 (N.S.)/March 20 (O.S.) – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1943)
• May – Leon Frank Czolgosz, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (d. 1901)
• May 4 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940)
• May 18 – Lucy Beaumont, English actress (d. 1937)
• July 1 – Alice Guy-Blachι, French-American filmmaker (d. 1968)
• August 25 – Blanche Bates, actress (d. 1941)
• August 26 – Lee De Forest, American inventor (d. 1961)
• September 1 – Sir Guy Standing, British actor (d. 1937)
• September 20 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director (d. 1949)
• November 16 – W. C. Handy, American blues composer (d. 1958)

• January 29 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
• February 2 – William T. Innes, American writer, ichthyologist, publisher (d. 1969)
• February 3 – Gertrude Stein, American writer and patron of the arts (d. 1946)
• February 11  - Fritz Hart, English-born composer (d. 1949)
• February 24 – Honus Wagner, baseball player (d. 1955)
• March 24 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
• March 26 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
• March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
• March 30 – Charles Herbert Lightoller, 2nd Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1952)
• April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
• May 3 – Franηois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
• May 14 – Polaire, French actress and singer (d. 1939)
• June 16 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
• July 26 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
• July 27 – Frank Shannon, American actor (d. 1959)
• August 10 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
• September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (d. 1951)
• September 21 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
• October 3 – Charles B. Middleton, American actor (d. 1949)
• October 8 – Nance O'Neil, stage & film actress, friend of Lizzie Borden (d. 1965)
• October 20 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
• November 30
  • Winston Churchill, Twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1965)
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
• December 17 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
• December 22 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)

• January 5 – James Stuart Blackton, American film producer (d. 1941)
• January 9 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and socialite (d. 1942)
• January 11 – Reinhold Gliθre, Russian composer (d. 1956)
• January 22 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (The Birth Of A Nation) (d. 1948)
• February 2 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962)
• February 21 – Jeanne Calment, World's Longest Lived Person (d. 1997)
• March 7 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
• March 28 – Helen Westley, stage & film character actress (d. 1942)
• March 30 – Jonathan Campbell, American film pioneer (d. 1942)
• April 1 – Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)
• April 2 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
• April 4 - Samuel S. Hinds, American actor (d. 1948)
• May 11 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)
• June 12 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
• July 26 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
• August 21 – Winnifred Eaton, Canadian author (d. 1954)
• September 1 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (d. 1950)
• September 22 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian composer (d. 1911)
• October 12 – Aleister Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947)
• October 26 – H.B. Warner, English stage & screen actor (d. 1958)
• October 31 – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader (Iron Man of India) (d. 1950)
• December 4 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)

• February 12 – Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
• February 16 - Mack Swain, American actor (d. 1935)
• February 19 – Constantin Brβncuşi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
• March 2 – Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)
• March 4 - Theodore Hardeen, magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
• March 11 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
• April 3 – Margaret Anglin, Canadian stage actress (d. 1958)
• April 4 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter and poet (d. 1958)
• May 18 – Hermann Mόller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
• July 2 – Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
• July 12 – Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
• August 7 – Mata Hari, exotic dancer and spy (d. 1917)
• September 13 – Sherwood Anderson, American writer (d. 1941)
• November 23 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
• December 9 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (d. 1940)
• December 25 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first governor general and founder of Pakistan (d. 1948)

• February 4 – Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953)
• February 19 – Gabriele Mόnter, German painter (d. 1962)
• March 4 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
• March 18 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
• May 3 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
• May 23 – Grace Ingalls, youngest sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1941)
• June 11 – Renee Vivien, poet (d. 1909)
• August 1 – Charlotte Hughes (nιe Milburn), the longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom (d. 1993)
• August 15 – Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet, historian (d. 1957)
• August 27 - Charles Rolls, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce car firm, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)
• October 15 – Helen Ware, American stage & film actress (d. 1939)
• October 29 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
• November 2 – Claire McDowell, American silent film actress (d. 1966)
• November 9 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher, one of the profound founding fathers of the Muslims of India (d. 1938)
• November 15 – William Hope Hodgson, English author (d. 1918)
• November 17 – Frank Lahm, Brigadier General USAF, airship pilot, early military aviator trained by the Wright Brothers (d. 1963)
• November 22 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)

• January 6 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
• January 12 – Ferenc Molnαr, author (d. 1952)
• January 20 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (d. 1968)
• January 22 – Constance Collier, stage & screen actress (d. 1955)
• January 25 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
• February 5 – Andrι Citroλn, French automobile manufacturer (d. 1935)
• February 8 – Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (d. 1965)
• April 6 – Erich Mόhsam, German author (d. 1934)
• April 28 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
• June 1 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (d. 1967)
• June 3 – Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (d. 1946)
• June 5 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
• July 4 – George M. Cohan, American singer, dancer, composer, actor, and writer (d. 1942)
• October 9 – Robert Warwick, American stage & screen actor (d. 1964)
• December 18 – Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d.1953)
• December 25 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race driver and automobile builder (d. 1941)

• January 3 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
• January 12 - Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American pioneer aviator, made first transcontinental U.S. flight (d. 1912)
• January 13 – Melvin Jones, American founder of Lions Clubs International (d. 1961)
• January 18 – Tane Ikai, oldest undisputed Japanese person ever. She died on July 12 1995.
• March 14 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• April 9 – Thomas Meighan, American stage & screen actor (d. 1936)
• April 29 – Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
• May 22 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress (d. 1945)
• May 25 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born statesman and newspaper publisher (d. 1964)
• May 27 – Lucile Watson, stage & screen actress (d. 1962)
• July 9 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, musicologist and conductor (d. 1936)
• August 13 – John Ireland, English composer and organist (d. 1962)
• August 15 – Ethel Barrymore, American stage & film actress (d. 1959)
• August 30 – Fritzi Scheff, actress and singer, (d. 1954)
• September 6
  • Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
  • Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
• October 21 - Eugene Ely, American pioneer aviator; first shipboard takeoff and landing (d. 1911)
• November 4 – Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
• November 7 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
• November 15 – Lewis Stone, American stage & film actor Judge Hardy (d. 1953)
• December 25 – Grace George, American stage actress (d. 1961)
• December 27 – Sydney Greenstreet, British stage and screen actor (d. 1954)

• January 6 – Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
• January 17 – Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (d. 1960)
• January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
• January 29 – W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
• March 4 – Channing Pollock (writer), American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
• March 10 – Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
• March 28 – Louis Wolheim, American character actor (d. 1931)
• April 13 – Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955)
• April 15 – Max Wertheimer, father of Gestalt Theory (d. 1943)
• June 4 – Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
• June 27 – Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
• July 12 – Tod Browning, American motion picture director, horror film pioneer (d. 1962)
• July 24 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer (d. 1959)
• August 6 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
• August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
• August 23 – Wyndham Standing, British actor of stage & film (d. 1963)
• August 29 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, verified as the longest-lived Canadian ever (d. 1998)
• September 24 – Sarah Knauss, verified as longest-lived American ever (d. 1999)
• November 25 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (d. 1960)
• December 24 – Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 1938)

• March 4 - Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor (d. 1971)
• March 25 - Bιla Bartσk, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
• March 26 - Guccio Gucci founder of Gucci.
• July 4 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (d. 1968)
• August 12 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director and producer (d. 1959)
• September 11 – Asta Nielsen, Danish silent film star (d. 1972)
• September 15 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian Car Designer, Founder of Bugatti Automobiles (d. 1947)
• September 26 – Hiram Wesley Evans, Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard (d. 1966)
• October 25 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter (d. 1973)
• November 14 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film studio executive (d. 1969)
• November 24 – Al Christie, Canadian-born director and producer (d. 1951)
• November 25 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
• December 3 – Henry Fillmore, American composer (d. 1956)
• December 12 – Doris Keane, American stage actress (d. 1945)

• January 12 – Milton Sills, American stage & film actor (d. 1930)
• January 13 – Alois Hitler, Jr., Austrian elder half-brother of Adolf Hitler (d. 1956)
• January 17 - Noah Beery, American actor (d. 1946)
• January 18 – A. A. Milne, British author (d. 1956)
• January 25 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
• January 30 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
• January 31 - Fritz Leiber, Sr., American stage and screen actor (d. 1949)
• February 1 – Louis Stephen St. Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
• February 2 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
• February 4 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
• February 15 – John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
• April 4 – Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
• April 18 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977)
• May 5 – Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette (d. 1960)
• May 25 – Marie Doro, American stage & silent film actress (d. 1956)
• May 26 – Roderick McMahon, American professional boxing and wrestling promoter (d. 1954)
• June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
• June 28 – Valeska Surratt, stage actress & silent film star (d. 1962)
• July 8 – Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1962)
• August 15 – Christian Mortensen, Oldest verified male ever (d. 1998)
• September – Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
• September 16 – Robert Hichens, Titanic Quartermaster, man at the wheel when Titanic hit the iceberg (d. 1940)
• September 30 – George Bancroft, American Hollywood film actor (d. 1956)
• October 3 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
• October 20 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
• October 24 – Sybil Thorndike, British stage & film actress (d. 1976)
• November 8 – Ethel Clayton, silent screen star (d. 1966)
• November 20 – Ethel May Halls, American theatrical and film actress (d. 1967)

• January 3 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
• January 10 - Florence Reed, American actress (d. 1967)
• January 16 – Hugh Oswald Short, British aviation pioneer and aircraft builder, youngest of the Short Brothers (d. 1969)
• January 30 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic (d. 1940)
• February 22 – Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (d. 1940)
• April 1 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
• May 20 – King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
• May 23 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
• May 26 – Mamie Smith, American Vaudeville singer (d. 1943)
• June 18 – Mary Alden, American stage & screen actress (d. 1946)
• June 28 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
• July 4 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
• July 19 – Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (Betty Boop) (d. 1972)
• July 25 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
• July 26 – Edwin Balmer, American science fiction and mystery writer (d. 1959)
• July 28 – Angela Hitler, Austrian elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler (d. 1949)
• July 29 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy (d. 1945)
• August 19 - Coco Chanel, French stylist (d. 1971)
• November 9 – Edna May Oliver, stage & film character actress (d. 1942)
• November 25 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. 1968)
• December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)
• December 12 – Cliff Sterrett, American cartoonist (d. 1964)
• December 17 – Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
• December 22
  • Edgard Varθse, French composer (d. 1965)
  • Edna Goodrich, American actress (d. 1972)
• December 29 – Forrest Taylor, American stage, film and television actor (d. 1965)

• January 13 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and comedian (d. 1966)
• January 28 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1962)
• January 31 – Theodor Heuss, German politician and publicist (d. 1963)
• February 1 – Bradbury Robinson, who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 (d. 1949)
• February 8 – Burt Mustin, American actor (d. 1977)
• February 16 – Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951)
• February 18 – Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
• March 13 – Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
• March 27 – James Cruze, American motion picture director (d. 1942)
• April 1 – Laurette Taylor, American stage actress (d. 1946)
• April 6 – Walter Huston, American actor (d. 1950)
• May 8 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972)
• May 10 – Olga Petrova, English-born actress (d. 1977)
• May 27 – Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
• July 23 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)
• July 27 – Kathleen Howard, Canadian/American opera singer & character actress (d. 1956)
• August 8 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
• August 15 – Mary Nash, American actress (d. 1976)
• September 30 – Bessie Barriscale, American actress (d. 1965)
• October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
• December 25 – Evelyn Nesbit, model & actress, (d. 1967)

• January 6 – Florence Turner, American actress (d. 1946)
• January 27
  • Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
  • Eduard Kόnneke, German composer (d. 1953)
  • Harry Ruby, American musician, composer, and writer (d. 1974)
• February 9 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
• April 1 – Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
• April 3 – Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (d. 1981)
• April 4 – Bee Ho Gray, Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer (d. 1951)
• May 2 – Hedda Hopper, American columnist (d. 1966)
• May 7 – George 'Gabby' Hayes, American actor (d. 1969)
• May 14 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (d. 1973)
• August 7 – Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970)
• September 11 – D. H. Lawrence, English author (d. 1930)
• September 22 – Erich Von Stroheim, Austrian-born motion picture actor & director (d. 1957)
• October 3 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
• November 5 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (d. 1981)
• November 11 - George Patton, American general (d. 1945)
• November 20 – Heinrich Brόning, Chancellor of Germany 1930-1932 (d. 1970)
• December 19 – Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)

• January 2 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d. 1938)
• January 11 – Chester Conklin, American actor (d. 1971)
• January 28 - Sam McDaniel, African-American actor (d. 1962)
• February 2 – Frank Lloyd, English-born film director, scriptwriter and producer (d. 1960)
• February 4 – Edward Sheldon, American playwright, (d. 1946)
• February 8 – Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)
• March 7 - Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress (d. 1958)
• April 8 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (d. 1967)
• April 26 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
• April 30 – Dick Elliot, American actor (d. 1961)
• May 3 – Marcel Duprι, French composer (d. 1971)
• May 20 – John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d. 1971)
• May 26 – Al Jolson, American entertainer (d. 1950)
• July 12 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
• July 31 – Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
• September 5 – Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comic artist (d. 1944)
• September 28 – Alice Hollister, American silent film actress (d. 1973)
• October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
• October 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (d. 1985)
• November 9 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
• November 26 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, editor (d. 1973)
• December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane, American author (d. 1968)
• December 8 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
• December 18 – Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1961)