Deaths
- June 19 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (born 1772), French naturalist.
- July 27 - John Dalton (born 1766), English chemist and physicist.
- August 30 - Francis Baily (born 1774), English astronomer.
- December 28 - Thomas Henderson (born 1798), Scottish astronomer.
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