President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer

* 1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander ( d. 1918 )

* 1868 – Hong Beom-do, Korean activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25, 000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.

* 1868 – Constantine I of Greece ( d. 1923 )

* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )

* 1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician ( d. 1931 )

* 1868 – Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder, author, and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications ( d. 1955 )

* 1786 – Ludwig I of Bavaria ( d. 1868 )

* 1868 – Nikolaos Levidis, Greek target shooter

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

* 1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.

* 1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, American author ( d. 1950 )

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

* 1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect and designer ( d. 1940 )

* 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( d. 1868 )

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

* Charles Aubrey Eaton ( 1868 – 1953 ), clergyman and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing the from 1925 – 1933, and the from 1933-1953.

* 1868 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman ( d. 1954 )

* 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

* 1868 – Henry James O ' Farrell, Australian attempted assassin of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

* Alexandra David-Néel ( 1868 – 1969 ), French explorer and spiritualist

* 1918 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist ( b. 1868 )

* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece.

It was first detected as an unknown yellow spectral line signature in sunlight during a solar eclipse in 1868 by French astronomer Jules Janssen.

* 1868 – Achille Paroche, French sport shooter ( d. 1933 )

* 1868 – Gaston Leroux, French writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1933 – Achille Paroche, French sports shooter ( b. 1868 )

* 1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.

* 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer ( d. 1969 )

* 1868 – Théodore Botrel, French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright ( d. 1925 )

* 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist ( d. 1868 )

* 1819 – Léon Foucault, French physicist ( d. 1868 )

* 1802 – Adolphe d ' Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist ( d. 1868 )

* December 2 – Edmond Rostand, French writer ( b. 1868 )

* June 29 – Georges Lacombe, French artist ( b. 1868 )

* February 23 – Paul Claudel, French poet, dramatist, and diplomat ( b. 1868 )

* April 15 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author ( b. 1868 )

Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur ( 1868 – 1938 ), a laundry laborer of English, French Huguenot and Jersey ancestry, and Anna Bell Johnson ( 1884 – 1958 ), who was of Swedish and Irish descent.

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918 ) was a French poet and dramatist.

Although he was rejected by the French Academy three times ( 1867, 1868, 1869 ), Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the most influential critic of the day, set the seal of approval on the poet by devoting no less than three major articles in 1863 to reviews of Gautier's entire published works.

The French military mission to Japan ( 1867 – 1868 ) before its departure in 1866.