Births
- February 1 - G. Stanley Hall (died 1924), American psychologist.
- February 7 - Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (died 1873), Russian naturalist.
- February 20 - Ludwig Boltzmann (died 1906), Austrian physicist famous for the invention of statistical mechanics.
- March 25 - Adolf Engler (died 1930), German botanist.
- June 10 - Carl Hagenbeck (died 1913), German zoologist.
- August 6 - James Henry Greathead (died 1896), South African-born English civil engineer.
- August 13 - Friedrich Miescher (died 1895), Swiss biologist.
- August 22 - George W. DeLong (died 1881), American Arctic explorer.
- September 11 - Henry Alleyne Nicholson (died 1899), English paleontologist and zoologist.
- October 3 - Patrick Manson (died 1922), Scottish parasitologist, the "father of tropical medicine" .
- November 25 - Karl Benz (died 1929), German automotive engineer.
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