Deaths
- February 23 - Johann Matthäus Bechstein, naturalist (born 1757)
- August 13 - Jean-Robert Argand, mathematician (born 1768)
- August 25 - William Herschel, astronomer (born 1738)
- November 6 - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (born 1748)
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