Events
Births
- January 4 - Charles Stratton ("General Tom Thumb"), circus performer, entertainer (d. 1883)
- January 6 - Max Bruch, composer (d. 1920)
- January 16 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
- February 6 - Henry Irving, English actor (d. 1905)
- February 16 - Henry Adams, American historian (d. 1918)
- February 18 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher
- March 3 - George William Hill, astronomer (d. 1914)
- April 8/ July 8 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, founder of the Zeppelin airship company. (d. 1917)
- April 21 - John Muir, naturalist (d. 1914)
- May 10 - John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
- May 20 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
- September 2 - Liliuokalani of Hawai'i, last monarch of Hawaii, (d. 1917)
- October 25 - Georges Bizet, French composer
- November 13 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1918)
- Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist.
Deaths
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bg:1838
be:1838
ca:1838
cs:1838
cy:1838
da:1838
de:1838
et:1838
el:1838
es:1838
eo:1838
eu:1838
fr:1838
fy:1838
hr:1838
is:1838
it:1838
he:1838
la:1838
hu:1838
nl:1838
no:1838
pl:1838
pt:1838
ro:1838
ru:1838
sl:1838
sr:1838
fi:1838
sv:1838
tr:1838
uk:1838
zh:1838年