Births
- 15 January - Thomas Crofton Croker, antiquary (died 1854)
- 3 April - John Banim, dramatist and playwright (died 1842).
- 28 May - Alexander Workman, politician in Canada and Mayor of Ottawa (died 1891).
- 11 August - Dominick Daly, Governor of Prince Edward Island, later Governor of South Australia (died 1868).
- 26 August - John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell, politician and Lord Lieutenant of County Louth (died 1879).
- 1 November - Benjamin Guinness, brewer and philanthropist (died 1868).
- 10 December - George Fletcher Moore, explorer and writer (died 1886).
- 13 December - James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (died 1876).
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