Deaths
- March 27 - Wilhelm Beer (born 1797), astronomer.
- April 9 - William Prout (born 1785), chemist.
- May 10 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (born 1778), chemist and physicist.
- December 4 - William Sturgeon (born 1783), inventor.
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