Events
Births
- January 7 – Bernadette Soubirous, a visionary from Lourdes. (died 1879)
- January 14 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (died 1895)
- January 25 – Jackie Fisher, British admiral (died 1920)
- January 28 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (died 1904)
- February 2 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (died 1912)
- February 4 – Clément Ader, French engineer, inventor, and airplane pioneer (died 1926)
- February 25 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (died 1919)
- March 8 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died 1935)
- April 13 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (died 1905)
- May 10 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (died 1918)
- July 29 – Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian doctor and scientist (d. 1912)
- August 25 – Emil Kocher, Swiss medical researcher who was given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1917)
- September 8 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (died 1904)
- September 28 – Georges Clemenceau, French statesman (died 1929)
- October 7 – King Nicholas I of Montenegro (died 1921)
- October 16 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (died 1909)
- November 6 – Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (died 1915)
- November 9 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)
- November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)
- December 6 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (died 1870)
- December 20 – Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist who was given the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1932)
Deaths
- February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist
- March 1 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (born 1764)
- April 4 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (born 1773)
- April 28 – Peter Chanel, French Roman Catholic missionary (martyred) (born 1803)
- May 20 – Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (born 1775)
- May 23 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (born 1765)
- June 1 – David Wilkie, Scottish artist (born 1785)
- June 1 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (born 1749).
- August 24 – Theodore Edward Hook, English writer (born 1788)
Art, music, theatre, and literature
References
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