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Events

Births

January

• January 1 – John Bell, British army officer
• January 2
• * Hugo von Bosch, Bavarian general and politician
• * Hosea Hildreth, educator and minister in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
• * El Pípila, Mexican miner and freedom fighter
• * Thomas Starkie, British lawyer
• January 3
• * Turner Saunders, American preacher
• * Philipp Franz von Walther, German ophthalmologist
• January 5 – Robert Morrison, British evangelist and first Protestant missionary in China
• January 8
• * William Mudford, British journalist and writer
• * Tommaso Riario Sforza, Italian cardinal
• January 9 – Benning M. Bean, American politician
• January 11 – Jean Laforgue, French scholar
• January 12 – Martin Flint, American politician
• January 13 – Robert Aspland, English Unitarian minister
• January 14
• * Carl Ferdinand Langhans, German architect
• * Stephen Lushington, British judge and Member of Parliament
• * Thomas Sergeant, American lawyer and politician
• * Peder Tonning, Norwegian politician
• January 15
• * Elkanah Kelsey Dare, American composer
• * Nikolaus Wolfgang Fischer, German physician and chemist
• * Ōkubo Tadazane, daimyo
• January 18
• * William Gosset, British Member of Parliament
• * Daniel Webster, 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State
• January 19
• * Michel Bibaud, Canadian writer
• * John J. Chappell, American politician
• * William Eden, British soldier and politician
• * William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris, British Army general
• January 20
• * Archduke John of Austria, Austrian soldier, imperial regent of the German Empire
• * William Nott, British general
• January 21
• * Jan George Bertelman, Dutch composer
• * Afanasy Grigoriev, Russian architect
• * James Patrick Murray, British politician
• January 22
• * Philip Hamilton, son of American Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton
• * Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, Austrian artist
• * John Mitford, British naval officer and author
• January 23 – José Francisco Bermúdez, Venezuelan revolutionary
• January 24 – Charles K. Williams, American politician
• January 25 – Johann Michael Ackner, Austrian archaeologist
• January 26
• * William George Keith Elphinstone, British Army general
• * Cornelius P. Van Ness, American politician
• January 27
• * John Lea, US epidemiologist
• * Titumir, Bengali revolutionary
• January 29
• * Daniel Auber, French composer
• * Daniel Parker, Adjutant general and inspector general of the US Army
• * Franciszek Ścigalski, Polish composer and violinist
• January 30
• * Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret, French painter
• * James Caulfeild, British politician
• * Wincenty Krasiński, nobleman, political activist and military leader
• * Ann Taylor, British poet and literary critic

February

• February 1 – Bill Johnston, American pirate
• February 2
• * James Chalmers, alleged Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp
• * Henri de Rigny, commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence
• February 3
• * John Macdonald Kinneir, British diplomat
• * John Lamont, Scottish sugar planter in Trinidad
• * William Pinnock, British publisher and educational writer
• * Ansel Sterling, American politician
• February 4
• * Charles William Grant, 5th Baron de Longueuil
• * Henry Lee, US political economist
• February 6 – Fyodor Tolstoy, Russian explorer
• February 8
• * Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, Russian botanist
• * Juan Cuevas Perales, Spanish composer
• * Malla Silfverstolpe, Swedish salon-holder
• February 9
• * William Havell, British artist
• * Philip Shuttleworth, English churchman and academic, Bishop of Chichester
• February 10
• * Robert Hallowell Gardiner, American land owner
• * Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny, French magistrate
• * Niels Arntzen Sem, Norwegian politician
• * Ashur Ware, United States federal judge
• February 11
• * William Lowndes, American politician, enslaver
• * Henri Jean de Rouvroy, Marquis of Saint-Simon, French soldier, diplomat, politician, officer
• February 12 – Auguste de Schonen, French politician
• February 14
• * Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist
• * Ephraim Sturdivant, American veteran
• February 15
• * John H. Dent, United States Navy officer
• * William Miller, American religious leader
• * Louis Perrin, Irish politician
• February 17 – Thomas Baxter, British artist
• February 19
• * Christopher Anderson, theological writer and preacher
• * Henry Bentley, English first-class cricketer
• * Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan, Princess of Courland
• February 22
• * Karl Stefan Aichelburg, Austrian musician
• * James Towers English, Irish military commander
• * John Gebhard, American politician
• * Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann, German mineralogist
• February 23
• * John Wilson Campbell, US federal judge
• * Peder Nielsen Hemb, Norwegian politician
• * Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl, Australian botanist, entomologist, geologist, physician
• February 24 – Thomas Uwins, British artist
• February 25 – William Sturgis, American merchant and politician
• February 26 – Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello, French noble
• February 27 – Marie Thérèse Haze, Belgian Religious Sister and foundress, beatified
• February 28 – Josef Božek, Czech engineer and inventor

March

• March 1 – Suzanne le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, French noblewoman
• March 2
• * Isaac Pocock, English dramatist and painter
• * Edward Sheldon, politician
• March 3
• * Joseph Edson, US Marshal for Vermont
• * Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville, French writer and librarian
• March 4
• * Gabriel-Alexandre Belle, French writer
• * Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss writer
• March 5 – Wacław Hański, Polish noble
• March 6
• * Andreas Bonnevie, Norwegian politician
• * Karoline von Woltmann, German translator and writer
• March 7
• * Henryka Beyer, Polish artist
• * Angelo Mai, cardinal and philologist in Italy
• * Charles Sterrett Ridgely, American land developer and legislator
• March 8 – Nicoll Halsey, American politician
• March 9 – Jean-François Boch, Luxembourgish industrialist and politician
• March 10
• * Ferdinand Gottlieb von Gmelin, German physician, natural historian, chemist and explorer
• * Charles Gray, Captain in the Royal Marines
• March 13
• * Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician
• * Orest Kiprensky, Russian artist
• * Jacob Krebs, American politician
• * Ivan Leontiev, Imperial Russian general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars
• March 14
• * Thomas Hart Benton, State Senator from Tennessee
• * Nathaniel F. Williams, American politician
• March 16
• * William Graham, Indiana politician
• * Vasili Krasovsky, Russian writer
• March 17
• * Billy Caldwell, British-Potawatomi and American fur trader
• * Franz Körte, German agronomist
• * Sophie von Kühn, German noble
• * John Styles, English Congregational minister and animal rights writer
• March 18
• * John C. Calhoun, vice president of the United States
• * José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán, 10th Marquess of Santa Cruz, Spanish diplomat and politician
• March 19
• * Wilhelm von Biela, Austrian astronomer
• * Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English politician
• March 20 – James Tod, English officer of the British East India Company, oriental scholar
• March 21 – Józef Goldtmann, Polish priest
• March 22 – James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale, British barrister and judge
• March 23
• * William C. Bradley, American politician
• * John Sudam, American politician
• March 24
• * Aglaé Auguié, French court official
• * William Owsley, 16th Governor of Kentucky
• March 25
• * Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and Sicily
• * Edward Grey, British Anglican bishop of Hereford
• March 26
• * Charles-Maurice Descombes, French playwright and literary critic
• * Benjamin Joseph Frobisher, Canadian politician
• March 29
• * Thomas Bryn, father of the Constitution of Norway, member of Stortinget
• * John Dickinson, British inventor
• * Stephen Reay, Scottish priest, orientalist
• March 31
• * Jesse Ketchum, Canadian politician
• * Louis-Hippolyte Lebas, French architect
• * Samuel Prentiss, United States federal judge

April

• April 1
• * James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, British politician
• * George C. Sibley, American explorer and politician
• April 2 – Johannes West, Inspector of Greenland
• April 3
• * Daniel Garrison, American politician
• * William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton, English Whig politician
• * Alexander Macomb, United States Army general
• April 4
• * Vincenzo Flauti, Italian mathematician
• * George Rowley, British academic
• April 5
• * James R. Manley, American physician
• * Edward West, British economist and judge in India
• April 7 – Marie-Anne Libert, Belgian botanist and mycologist
• April 9 – Joseph Hunter Bryan, American politician
• April 10 – María Antonia Santos Plata, Neogranadine rebel leader & heroine
• April 11 – Abraham Abell, Irish antiquarian
• April 14 – Carlo Coccia, Italian composer
• April 15 – Eleazer W. Ripley, American politician
• April 16
• * William Jerdan, Scottish journalist
• * Toribio de Luzuriaga, Argentinian military personnel
• April 17
• * Joseph Carne, British geologist and industrialist
• * Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne, British diplomat
• April 18 – Georg August Goldfuss, German paleontologist, mineralogist, zoologist and botanist
• April 21
• * Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue
• * Samuel Hibbert-Ware, British geologist and antiquarian
• April 23 – Prince Teimuraz of Georgia, Georgian royal prince and scholar
• April 25 – Adriano Balbi, Italian geographer
• April 26 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France
• April 27 – Jeptha Vining Harris, Georgia militia Brigadier General
• April 28 – William Darlington, American physician, botanist, politician
• April 29 – James Fowle Baldwin, American engineer

May

• May 1 – Yevgeny Golovin, Russian general
• May 4
• * James Bathurst, British Army officer
• * Friedrich Philipp Ritterich, German ophthalmologist
• * John R. Williams, American politician
• May 5 – Edward Richard Stewart, British politician
• May 6
• * Charles-René Laitié, French sculptor
• * Edward Charles Whinyates, English army officer
• May 8 – Ivan Paskevich, military leader of Ukrainian descent
• May 9
• * Virgil Horace Barber, American Jesuit
• * Marcia Van Ness, founded Washington Orphan Asylum in 1815
• May 10 – Louis-René Villermé, French economist
• May 12 – Lippmann Moses Büschenthal, German poet
• May 13
• * Henry A. P. Muhlenberg, American politician
• * Johan Gustaf Sandberg, Swedish artist
• * Ferdinand de Bertier de Sauvigny, French politician
• May 14
• * John McElroy, Jesuit Priest
• * Antoine-Marie Roederer, French politician
• May 16 – John Sell Cotman, British artist
• May 18
• * John Ferneley, English painter
• * Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, Prussian lieutenant-general
• * Valerian Madatov, Russian general
• * Gilbert C. Russell, American military officer
• May 19
• * Rowland Stephenson, British politician
• * Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Russian prince and Field Marshal
• May 22 – Hirose Tansō, Japanese poet and writer
• May 23
• * Christopher Crackenthorp Askew, British Royal Navy officer, captain in 1822
• * Charles Fothergill, Canadian politician
• May 26
• * Medora Gordon Byron, British Romantic novelist
• * Joseph Drechsler, Czech conductor, music educator, composer and organist
• * Erasmo Seguín, head postmaster of San Antonio, Texas
• * George Small, Scottish piano manufacturer
• * Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet, British politician
• May 27 – Antoni Jan Ostrowski, Polish general
• May 28
• * Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 1st Baronet, British surgeon
• * Johann Rombauer, painter from Hungary
• * Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk, painter from the Northern Netherlands, 1782–1810
• May 29 – James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon, British Army general
• May 30 – John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, British politician
• May 31 – Thomas Courtenay, British politician

June

• June 1
• * Lord William FitzRoy, British Member of Parliament
• * Thomas Van Horne, US politician and Ohio State Senator
• * Konstantin Poltoratsky, lieutenant general of the Imperial Russian Army
• * Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen, Russian noble and military commander
• June 3 – Charles Waterton, English naturalist, explorer and conservationist
• June 4
• * Frédéric Théodore Faber, Belgian painter
• * Christian Martin Frähn, German and Russian numismatist and historian
• June 5
• * Lemuel Williams Jr., American lawyer and politician
• * Ulrik Frederik Anton de Schouboe, Norwegian civil servant and politician
• June 6 – Vicenta Moguel, Basque writer and translator
• June 7 – Rowland Alston, English politician
• June 8 – Seaton Grantland, American politician
• June 9
• * Peter Fisher, Canadian historian
• * Alexander Powell, British Tory politician and MP
• June 10
• * Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante, French historian and statesman
• * Ole Christian Andersen Nøstvig, Norwegian politician
• June 11 – Richard Hill, Church of England clergyman in New South Wales
• June 12
• * Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general
• * Peter Schmidt, Norwegian politician and businessman
• June 13
• * Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier, French painter
• * William Bullein Johnson, American Baptist minister
• June 14 – Anton Aloys Wolf, Prince-Bishop of Laibach
• June 15 – Alexander George Woodford, British Army officer
• June 16
• * Nehemiah Eastman, American congressman for New Hampshire
• * Olry Terquem, French mathematician
• June 17 – Joseph Slater Jr., British portrait painter and draughtsman
• June 18
• * George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney, British Baron
• * Marceli Tarczewski, Polish lawyer
• June 19 – Félicité de La Mennais, French priest, philosopher and political theorist
• June 20 – Charles Floyd, American explorer
• June 21 – Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony
• June 24
• * Sir William Heygate, 1st Baronet, British MP
• * Juan Larrea, Argentine politician
• * Harmanus Peek, American politician
• June 25 – William O'Brien, Canadian political figure in Nova Scotia
• June 26
• * Fortunée Briquet, French woman of letters
• * Juan José Pedro Carrera, Chilean politician
• * Peter Paul Dobrée, British classical scholar
• June 29
• * Hans Christian Lyngbye, Danish priest and botanist
• * William Stockbridge, American businessman
• June 30 – William Cathcart, Scottish naval officer

July

• July 1 – Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Dutch and French army general
• July 2 – Adrien de Rougé, French statesman, soldier
• July 3 – Pierre Berthier, French geologist
• July 4 – Adèle Duchâtel, French court official
• July 5
• * Mads Lauritz Madsen, Norwegian politician
• * Arabella Menage, British actress and dancer
• * Rosa Morandi, Italian soprano
• July 6
• * Luis Brión, Venezuelan military officer
• * Henri Antoine Jacques, French botanist
• * Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, Spanish Royal
• July 7
• * John Myers Felder, American politician
• * Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro, British lawyer, judge and politician
• July 9
• * Tomaso Catullo, Italian noblemen, geologist, paleontologist and zoologist
• * Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé, French painter and writer
• July 10 – Moses Elias Levy, Jewish-American businessman and reformer
• July 12 – Étienne Marc Quatremère, French orientalist
• July 13
• * Thomas William Taylor, British Army officer
• * Charlotte White, American missionary
• July 14
• * Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Austrian archduke
• * Jesse Elliott, United States Navy officer
• July 16
• * Sophie Ørsted, Danish muse
• * Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener, German banker and patron of the arts
• July 17 – James Cockle, British surgeon
• July 18 – Mariano Enrique Calvo, president and vice president of Bolivia
• July 19
• * Jonathan Blewitt, English composer
• * Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington, Irish Earl
• * Iinuma Yokusai, Japanese botanist and physician
• July 23 – Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter, Baltic German parish priest and linguist
• July 24
• * John Fox Burgoyne, British Army officer
• * William Temple Thomson Mason, American businessman
• July 25
• * Mariano Boedo, Argentine politician
• * Lincoln Goodale, American doctor
• * Michael Rohde, German botanist
• * Sir David Scott, 2nd Baronet, Member of the United Kingdom Parliament
• July 26 – John Field, Irish pianist, composer and teacher
• July 27 – Basilio Puoti, Italian lexicographer and literary critic
• July 28
• * Aristaces Azaria, Armenian Catholic abbot and archbishop
• * Thomas Burnside, American politician
• July 29
• * François Liénard de la Mivoye, French zoologist and botanist
• * Jesse Wharton, American politician
• July 31 – Oliver H. Prince, American politician

August

• August 1
• * Johann Casimir Benicken, German jurist and judge
• * Eugène de Mazenod, French bishop and saint
• August 2 – Johannes van Hooydonk, Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop
• August 4 – John Kerr, member of the US House of Representatives
• August 6 – William Spencer, American judge and politician
• August 10
• * Vicente Guerrero, 2nd President of Mexico
• * Matsudaira Muneakira, Japanese daimyo
• * Charles James Napier, Governor of Sindh, Commander-in-Chief in British India
• August 12 – Ole Johansen Winstrup, Danish engineer and inventor
• August 13 – Conrad Ten Eyck, American politician
• August 15
• * Carlo Brioschi, Italian astronomer
• * James Smith of Jordanhill, Scottish merchant, geologist and biblical critic
• * Charles Lowell, United States Unitarian minister
• * Henri de Merode, member of the Belgian Senate and writer
• * Faustin Soulouque, President and emperor of Haiti
• August 16 – Elderkin Potter, American politician and lawyer
• August 17
• * Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri, French stage designer
• * Pavel Martynov, Russian Lieutenant General
• August 18
• * Jean-Louis Boisselot, French composer and piano manufacturer
• * Marcellin Marbot, French general
• August 20
• * Nicolas-Philibert Adelon, French physician
• * Charles Fraser, American painter
• * Juliana de Almeida e Oyenhausen, Russian noble
• August 23 – David Hudson, American politician
• August 25
• * Charles Comte, French lawyer, journalist and political writer
• * Joseph Heinrich Gügler, Swiss theologian
• * Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland, Swedish prince
• * Sylvester Pattie, American frontiersman
• August 28
• * Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout, French politician
• * John Wray, barrister and the first Receiver of the London Metropolitan Police
• August 29
• * John Bowman, American lawyer, banker and politician from New York
• * Louis Antoine François de Marchangy, French advocate general, poet and politician
• * John Augustine Smith, President of the College of William & Mary
• August 30 – Christian of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Bavarian general
• August 31
• * Joseph H. Crane, American politician
• * Edward Russell, American politician

September

• September 1
• * Frances Alsop, English actor
• * Thomas Reade, English army officer and consul in Tunis
• September 2 – Myndert Van Schaick, American politician
• September 3
• * Benedict Joseph Fenwick, American Catholic bishop
• * Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, German zoologist and botanist
• September 5
• * Charles Malcolm, British Royal Navy officer
• * Maeda Narinaga, Japanese samurai and daimyo
• September 6 – Doxachi Hurmuzachi, ethnic Romanian boyar from the Duchy of Bukovina
• September 7
• * Princess Marie of Baden, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel & Brunswick-Oels
• * Clark Bissell, American judge and politician
• * Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, Scottish novelist
• * Crown Prince Munhyo, Crown prince of the Kingdom of Korea
• September 8
• * Johan Gørbitz, Norwegian painter
• * Mariano Montilla, Venezuelan politician
• September 9
• * Andreas Andersen Feldborg, Danish writer
• * Charles-François Painchaud, Quebec priest
• September 10 – John Ketcham, American politician
• September 11
• * Fisher A. Blocksom, American politician and lawyer from Ohio
• * Daniel Gaskell, British politician
• September 13 – William Wood, Scottish surgeon
• September 14 – Christian Magnus Falsen, jurist, father of the Constitution of Norway and member of Stortinget
• September 16
• * Daoguang Emperor, Qing-dynasty Chinese emperor
• * Hans Nilsen Gubberud, Norwegian politician
• September 17 – Christoph Hawich, German lithographer and painter
• September 18 – José Tomás Boves, Spanish general
• September 19
• * Karl von Fischer, German architect
• * Vicente Genaro de Quesada, Spanish general
• * Robert Sale, British Army general
• * John Wroe, British evangelist
• September 20
• * Richard Dunning, 2nd Baron Ashburton, British noble
• * Edward John Eliot, English cavalry officer
• September 22
• * Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, Canadian politician
• * Fredric Westin, Swedish painter
• September 23
• * Jacques Féréol Mazas, French musician
• * Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist
• September 24 – William Symonds, British Royal Navy admiral
• September 25
• * Charles Maturin, Irish writer
• * Stephen Price, theatre manager from New York City
• September 27 – Thomas M. Nelson, American politician
• September 28 – George Smith, English architect and surveyor
• September 29 – Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, British politician

October

• October 3
• * Charles Jared Ingersoll, American politician and writer
• * David Johnson, Governor of South Carolina
• * Richard Peek, English philanthropist
• October 4 – James Wadmore, English art collector
• October 6
• * Isidro Barrada, Spanish military personnel
• * James Gordon, British Royal Navy officer
• October 7
• * John Duer, American jurist
• * Charles Maclaren, Scottish journalist and geologist
• * James Lucas Yeo, British naval commander
• October 8 – Robert Lucas Chance, British glass maker
• October 9
• * Lewis Cass, American military officer, politician, statesman
• * Tilly Lynde, American politician
• * William Holland Wilmer, American episcopal priest
• October 11
• * Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish writer
• * Christian Heinrich Bünger, German anatomist and surgeon
• * Georg Andreas von Rosen, Russian army general
• * Pierre-Antoine Tabeau, Canadian missionary
• October 12
• * Henry Dodge, American politician and general
• * Jared Groce, American planter, slaveowner and settler
• October 13 – Joseph Nigg, Austrian artist
• October 14 – James Gilmour, Canadian businessman
• October 15 – James Elmes, English writer and architect
• October 16
• * Alois Pichl, Austrian architect
• * Hamelin Trelawny, British politician
• October 18
• * Joseph M. Street, Iowa pioneer, trader and US Indian Agent
• * Karl Friedrich Eusebius Trahndorff, German philosopher
• October 19 – J. T. Wedgwood, British engraver
• October 20 – Christian Blom, Norwegian composer
• October 24 – William Norton Shinn, American politician
• October 25
• * Iosif Ivanovich Charlemagne, Russian architect
• * Levi Lincoln Jr., Massachusetts Governor and Congressman
• * Sir William Verner, 1st Baronet, British politician
• October 26
• * Carlo Tancredi Falletti di Barolo, Italian politician and mayor
• * Charles Goodall, English cricketer
• October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer
• October 28 – Henry Meigs, American politician
• October 30 – Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier, Italian saint

November

• November 1
• * Joseph von Blumenthal, Austrian musician
• * F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• * Adam Ditlev Wedell-Wedellsborg, Dano-Norwegian government official
• November 2 – Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, Spanish-Argentine general
• November 3 – Lewis Warrington, United States Secretary of the Navy
• November 4
• * John Branch, American politician
• * Nanbu Toshitaka, Japanese samurai, 10th daimyō of Morioka Domain, northern Japan
• November 6 – Maha Bandula, Burmese general
• November 7
• * Friedrich Karl Gustav, Baron von Langenau, Austrian field marshal
• * Edward Hawker, Royal Navy officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
• * John Pye, English landscape engraver
• November 11
• * Francis Blackburne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• * Nathan Dunn, American collector
• * Elihu Embree, American abolitionist and newspaper editor
• November 12
• * William Hendricks, American politician
• * Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, British naval commander and Whig politician
• * James Wedderburn, Solicitor General for Scotland
• November 13
• * Sir Alexander Grant, 8th Baronet, British politician
• * Joseph Kornhäusel, Austrian architect
• * Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet, professor and bishop
• November 16
• * Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, British politician
• * Thomas Whitmore, English politician
• November 17 – Conrad Graf, German piano maker
• November 19 – John McCarty, American politician
• November 20
• * Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield, Canadian politician and businessman
• * Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, painter from the Northern Netherlands
• November 21 – William Tippet, Anglo-Indian Judge and Magistrate
• November 22
• * Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, Dean of Canterbury
• * Sophie Swetchine, Russian salon-holder
• November 25
• * George Tillson, American industrialist
• * Thomas Contee Worthington, American politician
• November 26
• * Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten, German mineralogist
• * Johan Christopher Ræder, Norwegian politician
• November 28 – John R. Drake, American politician
• November 29 – Henry Walton Ellis, British Army officer
• November 30 – Giuseppe Moretti, Italian botanist

December

• December 2 – Gerard Thomas Noel, British cleric
• December 3
• * John E. Coffee, American politician
• * Henry William Pickersgill, British artist
• December 5
• * Martin Van Buren, 8th president of the United States
• * Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet, British politician
• December 7
• * James Earickson, American politician
• * Nicolaus Michael Oppel, German naturalist
• * Joseph Trumbull, American politician and lawyer
• December 9 – Waleria Tarnowska, Polish painter and art collector
• December 10
• * Thomas William Brotherton, British general
• * Charles Nicolas Fabvier, French military personnel, politician and diplomat
• * Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl, German philosopher, educationist, musicologist and musician
• December 11
• * George Barnes, English archdeacon
• * Johann Friedrich Müller, German copperplate engraver
• December 12 – Marie-Victoire Baudry, Canadian superior general
• December 13 – John Clitherow, British Army general
• December 16
• * Hans Jakob Oeri, Swiss painter
• * Louis-Barthélémy Pradher, French composer, pianist and music educator
• * Diego Bautista Urbaneja, Venezuelan politician
• December 17 – James Fullarton, Scottish soldier who fought in the Kandyan Wars
• December 19 – Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Czech botanist, surgeon, doctor and mycologist
• December 21
• * Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, French composer
• * Randolph Isham Routh, British commissariat officer
• December 22 – Jean Bélanger, Canadian politician
• December 23
• * William Armstrong, American lawyer, civil servant, politician, businessperson
• * Johann Anton Weinmann, German botanist
• December 24
• * Therese Brunetti, Austrian actress
• * Charles Hubert Millevoye, poet from France
• December 25
• * Victory Birdseye, American politician
• * Nathaniel Fish Moore, American university administrator
• December 26 – Philaret Drozdov, Russian bishop
• December 27
• * Samuel Hood, Anglican Dean of Argyll and The Isles
• * Henry Vail, American politician
• December 28
• * Joseph Arnold, English naval surgeon and naturalist
• * Matthias Joseph de Noël, German writer and art collector
• * Cajetan von Textor, German physician
• December 29
• * François-Joseph Grille, French librarian
• * William Lloyd, British army officer
• * Benjamin Woodworth, American politician
• December 30
• * John Freeman Milward Dovaston, British poet and naturalist
• * Jonas Anton Hielm, Norwegian politician
• December 31
• * Konstantin Bulgakov, Russian diplomat and postal director
• * Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup, French naturalist

Deaths

• January 2 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer
• January 4 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect
• January 18 - John Pringle, Scottish physician
• January 28 — Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer and cartographer
• January 30 - Vasily Dolgorukov-Krymsky, Russian general
• February 9 - Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Syrian orientalist
• February 10 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian
• March 1 - John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia
• March 2 - Sophie of France, French princess
• March 9 - Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Metropolitan of Cetinje
• March 17 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematical physicist
• April 7 - Taksin the Great, King of Siam
• April 13 - Metastasio, Italian poet, librettist
• April 17 - Baal Shem of London, British Kabbalist
• April 22 - Josef Seger, Czech composer and organist
• April 28 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician
• May 8 - Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese statesman
• May 15 - Richard Wilson, British painter
• May 16 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist
• May 20 - William Emerson, English mathematician
• May 20 - Axel Lagerbielke, Swedish admiral and statesman
• May 22 - Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt
• June 11 - William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor
• June 18 - John Wood, the Younger, English architect
• June 21 - Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, German prince
• July 1 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of Great Britain
• July 15 - Farinelli, Italian castrato
• August 27 - John Laurens, American soldier
• August 31 - George Croghan, American colonist
• September 5 - Bartolina Sisa, Bolivian indigenous Aymara heroine, rebel leader
• September 6
• * Gregoria Apaza, Bolivian indigenous leader
• * Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson
• September 14 - Nicholas Cooke, first Governor of Rhode Island
• October 2 - Charles Lee, Continental Army general during the American War of Independence
• November 5 - James Burrow, British scholar
• November 21 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor
• December 7 - Hyder Ali, Indian general, Sultan of Mysore
• December 11-William Beadle, Anglo-American merchant
• December 16 - William Cole (antiquary), British antiquarian
• December 27 - Henry Home, Lord Kames, Scottish advocate and philosopher date unknown
• * Christine Kirch, German astronomer
• * Sabina Aufenwerth, German potter
• * Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Swedish botanist