•
5 January –
Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959) •
23 February –
Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924) •
2 March –
Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959) •
28 March –
R. Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died
1930) •
1 April -
Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer (died 1899) •
6 April –
Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died
1871, shortly after birth) •
12 April –
Ellis William Davies, politician (died
1939) •
15 April –
John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926) •
11 May –
George Howells, academic and writer (died
1955) •
6 June –
Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951) •
14 June –
David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918) • July -
Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955) •
2 July –
Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1959) •
3 July –
W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940) •
13 August –
Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938) •
21 September –
Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938) •
1 October – Sir
Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died
1955) •
10 October –
Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died
1949) •
3 November –
Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939) •
27 November –
Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956) •
29 November (in England) –
Ruth Herbert Lewis, social reformer and collector of Welsh folk songs (died
1946) •
1 December –
Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955) •
3 December – Sir
Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946) •
date unknown •
William Jenkins, politician (died 1944) •
Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921) •
Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died
1953) ==Deaths==