Charles Curtis (1860-1936)
Jan 25 American Republican Senator (Kansas: 1907-13, 1915-29) and 31st US Vice President (1929-33) who was the first Native American to become a Senator and Vice President, born in North Topeka, Kansas
- Jan 26 Harry Micajah Daugherty, American politician, lawyer and political manager accused of corruption, born in Washington Court House, Ohio (d. 1941)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Jan 29 Russian author and playwright (Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya), born in Taganrog, Russia
- Feb 2 Curtis Guild, Jr., 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
- Feb 6 Eliza Johannes Meester, Dutch journalist & writer (Geertje), born in Harderwijk, Netherlands (d. 1931)
- Feb 11 Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus), born near Périgueux, France (d. 1953)
- Feb 14 Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer & liberal politician, born in Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1954)
- Feb 14 Waldemar Lindgren, Swedish-American Geologist (economic geology, ore classification), born in Vassmolösa, Kalmar, Sweden (d. 1939)
- Feb 18 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter, etcher and sculptor (Gustavus Vasa), born in Mora, Sweden-Norway (d. 1920)
- Feb 21 Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
- Feb 21 Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
- Feb 24 Daniel Berkeley Updike, American printer, publisher and writer (Printing Types), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1941)
- Feb 25 Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch painter, born in Brussels (d. 1925)
- Feb 25 William Ashley, English economic historian (The Economic Organisation of England), born in London, England (d. 1927)
- Feb 29 Herman Hollerith, American inventor (1st electric tabulating machine), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1929)
- Mar 2 Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader (d. 1961)
- Mar 3 John Montgomery Ward, American Baseball HOF pitcher (perfect game 1880; NL ERA leader 1878; NL strikeout leader & NL wins leader 1879; Providence Grays), born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (d. 1925)
- Mar 5 Sam Thompson, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL batting champion 1887 Detroit Wolverines; NL HR leader 1889, 1895 Philadelphia Quakers), born in Danville, Indiana (d. 1922)
- Mar 11 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in NYC, New York (d. 1929)
- Mar 12 Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet and songwriter during "Golden Age of Neapolitan Song", born in Naples (d. 1934)
- Mar 13 Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (d. 1903)
- Mar 15 Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian bacteriologist (1st to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1930)
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
Mar 19 American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois
- Mar 22 Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
- Mar 27 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, born in Redding, Connecticut (d. 1924)
- Mar 31 Isidor Traube, German chemist who founded capillary chemistry and researched liquids (osmosis, surface tension), born in Hildesheim Hanover (d. 1943)
- Apr 3 Frederik Willem van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1932)
- Apr 6 René Lalique, French jeweller (“the inventor of modern jewellery”) and glass designer, born in Aÿ-Champagne, France (d. 1945) [1]
- Apr 7 Will Keith "W.K." Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg's cereal brand), born in Battle Creek, Michigan (d. 1951)
- Apr 13 James Ensor, Flemish painter and etcher (De lampenjongen), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1949)
- Apr 20 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1953)
- Apr 20 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch politician (SDAP), born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1930)
- Apr 22 Ada Rehan, Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre), born in County Limerick, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Apr 29 Lorado Taft, American sculptor (Black Hawk), born in Elmwood, Illinois (d. 1936)
- May 2 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish zoologist and classicist (On Growth & Form), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1948)
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)
May 2 Austrian journalist and founder (Zionist movement), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary
- May 2 William Maddock Bayliss, British physiologist, co-discoverer of hormones, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (d. 1924)
- May 3 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1936)
- May 3 Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist, born in Ancona, Italy (d. 1940)
- May 4 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Austrian composer (Donna Diana), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1945)
- May 9 J.M. [James Matthew] Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan), born in Kirriemuir, Angus (d. 1937)
- May 15 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of US President Woodrow Wilson
- May 17 Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (Governor of Maryland, 1908-12), born in Conowingo, Maryland (d. 1912)
- May 19 Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (1917-19) who represented Italy at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, born in Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (d. 1952)
- May 20 Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
- May 21 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924), born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (d. 1927)
- May 25 James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist, born in Easton, Pennsylvania (d. 1944)
- May 27 Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal, born in Portimão, Portugal (d. 1941)
- May 29 Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (Suite española, Tango in D), born in Camprodon, Spain (d. 1909)
- May 31 Walter Sickert, Danish-English painter (The Miner), born in Munich (d. 1942)
- Jun 6 William Inge, English author, theologist and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, born in Crayke, Yorkshire (d. 1954)
- Jun 8 Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician, born in Cork, Ireland (d. 1940)
- Jun 12 Jack Edwards, Australian cricket batsman (3 Tests, Victoria CA), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1911)
- Jun 18 Hugo Loudon, CEO (Royal Dutch Oil [Shell])
- Jun 20 Jack Worrall, Australian cricket batsman (11 Tests, 5 x 50s; Victoria CA) and VFL premiership coach (Carlton 1906, 07, 08; Essendon 1911, 12), born in Maryborough, Australia (d. 1937)
- Jun 24 Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain, born in Palacio Real, Madrid, Spain (d. 1878)
- Jun 25 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), born in Dieuze, France (d. 1956)
- Jun 30 Gyula Andrássy, Jr., Hungarian politician (Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1918-20)), born in Tőketerebes, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (d. 1929)
- Jul 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist, writer and lecturer for social reform, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1935)
- Jul 3 William Wallace, Scottish composer, born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1940)
- Jul 5 Robert Bacon, American politician (39th United States Secretary of State), born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (d. 1919)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Jul 7 Austrian composer (Symphony No. 2 - "Resurrection"), and conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1909-11), born in Kalischat, Bohemia (now Austria)
Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
Jul 19 American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
- Jul 20 Johannes Walter, German geologist (Denudation of the Wilderness)
- Jul 24 Alphonse Mucha, Czech Nouveau painter and artist, born in Ivančice, Margraviate of Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1939)
- Jul 25 Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1917)
- Jul 26 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama), born in Paris (d. 1940)
- Jul 28 Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado, born in Macon County, North Carolina (d. 1925)
- Jul 28 Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, born in Peterhof Palace, Empire of Russia (d. 1922)
- Jul 31 Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
- Aug 3 William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (devised an early motion picture camera), born in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France (d. 1935)
- Aug 6 Fernando Canon, Filipino revolutionary general, poet, and the Philippines 1st National Chess Champion, born in Biñan, Laguna, Captaincy General of the Philippines (d. 1938)
- Aug 7 Alan Leo, British astrologer, born in Westminster, London (d. 1917)
- Aug 10 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
- Aug 11 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson etats de Normandie)
Annie Oakley (1860-1926)
Aug 13 American sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), born in North Star, Ohio
- Aug 14 Ernest T. Seton, naturalist, painter and author (Buffalo Wind-1938), born in South Shields, Durham, England (d. 1946)
- Aug 15 Florence Harding [DeWolfe], US 1st lady (1921-23), born in Marion, Ohio (d. 1924)
- Aug 15 Roosje Vos, Dutch seamstress, and trade union leader, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1932)
- Aug 16 Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 1887)
- Aug 16 Lord Hawke [Martin Hawke], English cricket batsman (5 Tests; Yorkshire CCC, Cambridge Uni CC, MCC), born in Willingham by Stow, England (d. 1938)
- Aug 19 John Kane, Scottish-American primitivist painter (Self-Portrait), born in West Calder, Scotland (d. 1934)
- Aug 20 Raymond Poincaré, French president and Prime Minister (1912), born in Bar-le-Duc, France (d. 1934)
- Aug 22 Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, born in Trzebiechów, Zielona Góra County, Poland (d. 1917)
- Aug 22 Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award), born in Lebork, Poland (d. 1940)
- Aug 25 George Fawcett, American actor (Intolerance), born in Alexandria, Virginia (d. 1939)
- Aug 25 Henrietta Vinton Davis, African-American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator and public speaker, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1941)
- Aug 30 (Giuseppe) "Joe" Petrosino, Italian-American NYPD lieutenant and organized crime fighter, born in Padula, Campania, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (now Italy) (d. 1909)
- Aug 30 Isaac Levitan, Russian classical painter, born in Kybartai, Lithuania (d. 1900)
- Sep 3 Edward A. Filene, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1937)
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
Sep 6 American pacifist, social activist, feminist, author, co-founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931), born in Cedarville, Illinois [1]
Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
Sep 7 American primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket), born in Greenwich, New York
- Sep 7 Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and ambassador to Vatican, born in Venlo (d. 1931)
- Sep 10 Marianne Von Werefkin, Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter, born in Tula, Russia (d. 1938)
- Sep 11 James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player and All Black, born in Taieri, Otago, New Zealand (d. 1934)
John J. Pershing (1860-1948)
Sep 13 American general and World War I commander, born in Laclede, Missouri
- Sep 14 Hamlin Garland, American writer (Middle Border), born in West Salem, Wisconsin (d. 1940)
- Sep 15 M. Visvesvaraya, Indian civil engineer and statesman (19th Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom), born in Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapura, Kingdom of Mysore, born in (d. 1962)
- Sep 18 Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1942)
- Sep 24 S. R. Crockett, Scottish novelist (The Stickit Minister), born in Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire (d. 1914)
- Sep 28 Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist who discovered gamma rays, born in Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or, France (d. 1934)
- Oct 3 Annie Horniman, English theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), born in Surrey Mount, Forest Hill, London (d. 1937)
- Oct 4 Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes), born in London (d. 1908)
- Oct 6 Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor (Curacao)
- Oct 6 Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch foreign minister (1908-13)
- Oct 8 Felix Woyrsch, German composer, born in Opava, Czech Republic (d. 1944)
- Oct 12 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American entrepreneur and inventor (gyrocompass), born in Cincinnatus, New York (d. 1930)
- Oct 17 Dionyssios Lavrangas, Greek conductor, composer, and pedagogue, born in Argostólion, Greece (d. 1915)
- Oct 19 Affie Jarvis, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (11 Tests, 18 dismissals; South Australia), born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 1933)
- Oct 28 Kanō Jigorō, Japanese educator and the founder of Judo, born in Mikage, Japan (d. 1938)
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)
Oct 31 American activist and founder of the Girl Scouts of America, born in Savannah, Georgia
- Nov 1 Boies Penrose, American politician (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1897-1921)), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
- Nov 7 Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (Father of The Tank), born in Condé en Barrois, France (d. 1936)
- Nov 13 Percy McDonnell, Australian cricket batsman (19 Tests, 3 x 100s; Victoria CA, NSW CA, Queensland CA), born in London, England (d. 1896)
- Nov 16 Edmund Schücker, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1911)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
Nov 18 Polish pianist, composer and statesman (Prime Minister of Poland, 1919), born in Kuryłówka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Tom Horn (1860-1903)
Nov 21 American gunfighter and outlaw, born in Scotland County, Missouri
- Nov 23 Karl Hjalmar Branting, Swedish statesman and diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1925)
- Nov 29 Hans Haym, German conductor, born in Halle (d. 1921)
- Dec 2 Charles Studd, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Middlesex) and missionary (Cambridge Seven), born in Spratton, England (d. 1931)
- Dec 7 Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England (d. 1947)
- Dec 13 Lucien Guitry, French actor (La Dame aux camélias), born in Paris, France (d. 1925)
- Dec 15 Abner Powell, American baseball utility, team owner and executive (first to use infield tarpaulin after rain), born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania (d. 1953)
- Dec 15 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish-Farosese physician and phototherapist (Nobel Prize for Medicine 1903 for treatment for Lupus), born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (d. 1904)
- Dec 18 Edward Alexander MacDowell, American composer (Indian Suite), born in New York (d. 1908)
- Dec 20 Dan Leno [George Wild Galvin], English comedian & stage actor, born in Somers Town, London (d. 1904)
- Dec 21 Henrietta Szold, U.S. Jewish Zionist leader & founder of Hadassah, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1945)
- Dec 22 Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator, born in Fort Jackson, New York (d. 1927)
- Dec 23 Harriet Monroe, American poet (You & I, A Poet's Life) and editor of Poetry magazine, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1936)
- Dec 25 Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (d. 1921)
- Dec 28 Alexander von Fielitz, German composer and conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1930)
- Dec 31 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, born in Pennsylvania, United States (d. 1937)