Deaths
- February 24 - Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist (born 1775)
- May 9 - Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt, French naturalist (born 1751)
- June 22 - Richard Kirwan, Irish scientist (born 1733)
- July 10 - Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765)
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