Births
- 12 February - Charles Darwin, naturalist (died 1882)
- 7 April - James Glaisher, meteorologist and aeronaut (died 1903)
- 4 June - John Henry Pratt, clergyman and mathematician (died 1871)
- 6 August - Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet (died 1892)
- 27 November - Fanny Kemble, British-born American actress and writer (died 1893)
- 29 December - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1898)
- date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem
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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)