| Country (Italics=Not Sovereign) | Head of State (Bold=Pictured) | Born | In Office | ||
| Brazil | Emperor Pedro II | 2 Dec | 1825 | 7 Apr | 1831 |
| British Empire | Queen Victoria | 24 May | 1819 | 20 Jun | 1837 |
| Persia | Naser al-Din Shah Qajar | 16 Jul | 1831 | 5 Sep | 1848 |
| Austro-Hungarian Empire | Emperor Franz Joseph I | 18 Aug | 1830 | 2 Dec | 1848 |
| Netherlands | King Willem III | 19 Feb | 1817 | 17 Mar | 1849 |
| Baden | Grand Duke Friedrich I | 9 Sep | 1826 | 22 Jan | 1858 |
| Portugal | King Luis I | 31 Oct | 1838 | 11 Nov | 1861 |
| Greece | King George I | 24 Dec | 1845 | 30 Mar | 1863 |
| Denmark | King Christian IX | 8 Apr | 1818 | 16 Nov | 1863 |
| Korea | King Gojong | 8 Sep | 1852 | 13 Dec | 1863 |
| Württemberg | King Karl I | 6 Mar | 1823 | 25 Jun | 1864 |
| Belgium | King Leopold II | 9 Apr | 1835 | 17 Dec | 1865 |
| Japan | Emperor Mutsuhito | 3 Nov | 1852 | 3 Feb | 1867 |
| Siam | King Chulalongkorn | 20 Sep | 1853 | 1 Oct | 1868 |
| German Empire | Emperor Wilhelm I (King of Prussia 1861) | 22 Mar | 1797 | 18 Jan | 1871 |
| Abyssinia | Emperor Yohannes IV | 11 Jul | 1837 | 11 Jul | 1871 |
| Sweden & Norway | King Oscar II | 21 Jan | 1829 | 18 Sep | 1872 |
| Saxony | King Albert | 23 Apr | 1828 | 29 Oct | 1873 |
| Hawaii | King Kalākaua | 16 Nov | 1836 | 12 Feb | 1874 |
| Chinese Empire | Guangxu Emperor | 14 Aug | 1871 | 25 Feb | 1875 |
| Ottoman Empire | Sultan Abdul Hamid II | 22 Sep | 1842 | 31 Aug | 1876 |
| Italy | King Umberto I | 14 Mar | 1844 | 9 Jan | 1878 |
| Holy See | Pope Leo XIII | 2 Mar | 1810 | 20 Feb | 1878 |
| Haiti | President Lysius Salomon | 30 Jun | 1815 | 26 Oct | 1879 |
| Russian Empire | Emperor Alexander III | 10 Mar | 1845 | 13 Mar | 1881 |
| Roumania | King Carol I (Prince 1866) | 20 Apr | 1839 | 15 March | 1881 |
| Nepal | King Prithvi | 18 August | 1875 | 17 May | 1881 |
| Servia | King Milan I (Prince 1868) | 22 Aug | 1854 | 6 Mar | 1882 |
| Madagascar | Queen Ranavalona III | 22 Nov | 1861 | 30 Jul | 1883 |
| Ecuador | President José Plácido Caamaño | 5 Oct | 1837 | 23 Nov | 1883 |
| Honduras | President Luis Bográn | 3 Jun | 1849 | 30 Nov | 1883 |
| Bolivia | President Gregorio Pacheco | 4 Jul | 1823 | 3 Sep | 1884 |
| Mexico | President Porfirio Díaz | 15 Sep | 1830 | 1 Dec | 1884 |
| United States | President Grover Cleveland | 18 Mar | 1837 | 4 Mar | 1885 |
| Guatemala | President Manuel Barillas | 17 Jan | 1845 | 16 Mar | 1886 |
| Colombia | President Rafael Núñez | 28 Sep | 1825 | 1 Apr | 1886 |
| Spain | King Alfonso XIII | 17 May | 1886 | 17 May | 1886 |
| Peru | President Andrés Avelino Cáceres | 10 Nov | 1836 | 5 Jun | 1886 |
| Bavaria | Prince Regent Luitpold | 12 Mar | 1821 | 10 Jun | 1886 |
| Venezuela | President Antonio Guzmán Blanco | 28 Feb | 1829 | 15 Sep | 1886* |
| Chile | President José Manuel Balmaceda | 19 Jul | 1840 | 18 Sep | 1886 |
| France | President Marie François Sadi Carnot | 11 Aug | 1837 | 3 Dec | 1887 |
| Switzerland | President Wilhelm Hertenstein | 5 May | 1825 | 1 Jan | 1888 |
