Births
- January 25 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
- February 22 – Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
- March 18 – Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician (d. 1863)
- May 1 – Junius Brutus Booth, English actor (d. 1852)
- May 4 – Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1859)
- June 14 – Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician of Czech origin (d. 1866)
- July 6 – Emperor Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
- July 16 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
- July 23 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
- August 15 – John Torrey, American botanist (d. 1873)
- August 25 – James Lick, American land speculator (d. 1876)
- September 19 – Hartley Coleridge, British poet (d. 1849)
- September 22 – Davi Canabarro, Gaúcho rebel revolutionary (d. 1867)
- September 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
- October 23 – Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1857)
- November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
- December 17 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (d. 1865)
- December 19 – Breton de los Herreros Spanish playwright (d. 1873)
- December 27 – Mirza Ghalib, Poet of Urdu (d. 1869)
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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)