Births
- February 4 - Hiram Maxim (died 1916), inventor of the machine gun.
- February 5 - John Boyd Dunlop (died 1921), inventor.
- February 10 - Per Teodor Cleve (died 1905), chemist.
- March 28 - Emin Pasha (died 1892), explorer.
- March 31 - Benjamin Baker (died 1907), civil engineer.
- April 22 - Thomas Clouston (died 1915), psychiatrist.
- August 4 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing (died 1902), sexologist.
- November 24 - John Brashear (died 1920), astronomer.
- November 29 - James Crichton-Browne (died 1938), psychiatrist.
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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