Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)
Jan 3 American Quaker, abolitionist and women's right activist (1st Woman's Rights Convention), born in Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Jan 6 James Madison Porter, American politician, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
- Jan 14 John C. Clark, American politician, born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (d. 1852)
- Jan 18 William Henry Havergal, British composer, hymn writer, and Anglican clergyman, born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1870)