Births
- January 12 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (died 1841)
- February 1 - Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach, German plastic surgeon (died 1847)
- February 17 - Karl Ernst von Baer, Estonian naturalist (died 1876)
- March 7 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
- May 21 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French mathematician, discoverer of the Coriolis effect (died 1843)
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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.”
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