Births
- April 10 - Arthur Vierendeel (died 1940), Belgian civil engineer.
- May 1 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal (died 1934), Spanish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- August 30 - Jacobus van 't Hoff (died 1911), Dutch chemist.
- September 9 - John Henry Poynting (died 1914), English physicist, discoverer of the Poynting-Robertson effect and the Poynting vector.
- September 28 - Isis Pogson (died 1945), English astronomer and meteorologist.
- October 2 - William Ramsay (died 1916), Scottish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- October 9 - Hermann Emil Fischer (died 1919), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- December 15 - Henri Becquerel (died 1908), French physicist.
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