Births
- March 4 - Napier Shaw (died 1945), English meteorologist.
- March 15 - Emil Adolf von Behring (died 1917), German physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
- March 31 - Dugald Clerk (died 1932), Scottish mechanical engineer.
- April 28 - Phoebe Marks, later Hertha Ayrton (died 1923), English electrical engineer.
- April 29 - Henri Poincaré (died 1912), French mathematician.
- May 11 - Ottmar Mergenthaler (died 1899), German-born inventor.
- June 13 - Charles Algernon Parsons (died 1931), British inventor of the steam turbine.
- July 12 - George Eastman (died 1932), American photographic inventor.
- July 23 - Birt Acres (died 1918), American-born cinematographic inventor.
- October 3 - Hermann Struve (died 1920), Russian-born astronomer.
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