Births
- January 14 - Ludwig von Köchel, Austrian musicologist and botanist (died 1877)
- February 2 - Melanie Hahnemann, French homeopath (died 1878)
- February 11 - H. Fox Talbot, English pioneer of photography (died 1877)
- February 12 - John Edward Gray, English taxonomist (died 1875)
- February 23 - William Jardine, Scottish naturalist (died 1874)
- March 14 - James Bogardus, American inventor (died 1874)
- April 15 - James Clark Ross, English explorer of the Polar regions (died 1862)
- July 31 - Friedrich Woehler, German chemist (died 1882)
- December 29 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor of the vulcanization process (died 1860)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)