Deaths
- February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 1777), mathematician.
- March 20 - Joseph Aspdin (born 1778), inventor.
- April 13 - Henry De la Beche (born 1796), geologist.
- June 29 - John Gorrie (born 1803), physician and inventor.
- July 6 - Andrew Crosse (born 1784), 'gentleman scientist', pioneer experimenter in electricity.
- July 8 - William Edward Parry (born 1790), Arctic explorer.
- October 7 - François Magendie (born 1783), physiologist.
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