Births
- January 15 - Sofia Kovalevskaya (died 1891), mathematician.
- January 24 - Hermann Ebbinghaus (died 1909), psychologist.
- February 15 - Sophie Bryant (died 1922), mathematician and educationalist.
- March 31 - Charles Walcott (died 1927), paleontologist.
- May 18 - Oliver Heaviside (died 1925), physicist.
- May 23 - George Claridge Druce (died 1932), botanist.
- June 6 - Karl Ferdinand Braun (died 1918), physicist.
- August 25 - Charles Richet (died 1935), Nobel Prize winner.
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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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