- Feb 6 Henry Irving [John Brodribb], British Victorian actor, 1st actor to receive a knighthood (knighted 1895) and the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, born in Bradford, England (d. 1905)
John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865)
May 10 American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, born in Bel Air, Maryland
- Jun 10 Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1924)
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