Deaths
- 9 February - Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician (died 1826).
- 26 May - Edward Sabine, astronomer, scientist, ornithologist and explorer (born 1788).
- 25 July - Frederick Edward Maning, writer and judge in New Zealand (born 1812).
- 22 October - Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist (born 1818).
- 24 November - William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (born 1814).
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