Births
- April 3 - Charles Wilkes, American navigator (died 1877)
- August 17 - Thomas Hodgkin, English physician (died 1866)
- September 19 - Caesar Hawkins, English surgeon (died 1884)
- November 4 - Karl Kreil, Austrian astronomer (died 1862)
- December 28 - Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer (died 1844)
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