Births

• 3 June: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
  William Matthew Flinders Petrie
  William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS , commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts...
  
  , Egyptologist
• Wilhelm Dörpfeld
  Wilhelm Dörpfeld
  Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects...
  
  , archaeologist of Troy
  Troy
  Troy was a city, both factual and legendary, located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida...