Births
- January 5 - King Camp Gillette (died 1932), inventor.
- January 21 - John Moses Browning (died 1926), inventor.
- January 28 - William Seward Burroughs (died 1898), inventor of the adding machine.
- March 13 - Percival Lowell (died 1916), astronomer.
- May 29 - David Bruce (died 1931), microbiologist.
- November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort (died 1913), meteorologist.
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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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