Deaths
- March 1 - Thomas Earnshaw (born 1749), watchmaker.
- April 6 - Niels Henrik Abel (born 1802), mathematician.
- May 10 - Thomas Young (born 1773), physicist.
- May 29 - Humphry Davy (born 1778), chemist.
- June 29 - James Smithson (born 1764), mineralogist, chemist and benefactor.
- November 14 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (born 1763), chemist.
- December 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born 1744), naturalist.
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