Births
- January 1 - A. K. Erlang, Danish mathematician (died 1929)
- January 7 - Samuel James Cameron, Scottish obstetrician (died 1959)
- January 25 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (died 1975)
- February 5 - André Citroën, French automobile manufacturer (died 1935)
- February 8 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (died 1965)
- February 28 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (died 1929)
- March 4 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (died 1947)
- April 16 - Owen Thomas Jones, Welsh geologist (died 1967)
- May 3 - Cruz Hernández, El Salvadorian oldest person (not fully verified) (died 2007)
- June 3 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (died 1946)
- June 12 - James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (died 1927)
- July 12 - Peeter Põld, Estonian politician and pedagogical scientist (died 1930)
- August 28 - George Whipple, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1976)
- September 5 - Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (died 1913)
- September 13 - Matilde Moisant, American pilot (died 1964)
- November 26 - Marshall "Major" Taylor, American cyclist (died 1932)
- December 25 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race driver and automobile builder (died 1941)
- December 25 - Joseph Schenck, Russian-born film executive (died 1962)
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