Deaths
- March 2 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (born 1758), astronomer.
- March 23 - William Maclure (born 1763), geologist.
- April 25 - Simeon Poisson (born 1781), mathematician.
- July 4 - Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (born 1787), surgeon.
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