Births
- January 29 - Henry Morton Stanley (died 1904), explorer, journalist.
- February 2 - François-Alphonse Forel (died 1912), pioneer in the study of lakes.
- February 4 - Clément Ader (died 1926), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
- February 24 - Carl Gräbe, (died 1927) chemist.
- March 6 - Alfred Cornu (died 1902), physicist.
- August 4 - W. H. Hudson (died 1922), naturalist.
- August 25 - Emil Theodor Kocher (died 1917), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- October 26 - Theodor von Oppolzer (died 1886), astronomer.
- November 3 - Eugen Warming (died 1924), botanist and founder of ecology.
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