Births
- January 22 - Friedrich Gerke, German pioneer of telegraphy (died 1888)
- April 19 - Gustav Fechner, German psychologist (died 1887)
- May 17 - Lovisa Åhrberg, Swedish surgeon (died 1881)
- June 16 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (died 1868)
- July 14 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (died 1858)
- July 31 - George Biddell Airy, English astronomer (died 1892)
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