- Jan 6 Kaspar Masek, Czech-Slovenian composer, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1873)
- Jan 25 François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, born in Carpentras, France (d. 1878)
- Feb 12 Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player, writer (first great Russian chess master), born in Biserovo, Russia (d. 1867)
- Feb 20 William Carleton, Irish writer and novelist (Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry), born in Clogher, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 1869)
Santa Anna (1794-1876)
Feb 21 President of Mexico who dominated Mexican history in the first half of the 19th century, born in Xalapa, Veracruz
- Feb 25 Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (1st Dutch PM as Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1848), born in Amsterdam (d. 1863)
- Mar 5 Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer (contributions to optics), born in Lusignan, France (d. 1872)
- Mar 5 Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
- Mar 16 Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
- Mar 26 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and designer who figured importantly in the German Nazarene movement, born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1872)
- Mar 31 Thompson McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)
- Apr 9 Aristide Farrenc, French flautist, music publisher, and musicologist (Trésor des pianistes), born in Marseilles, France (d. 1865)
- Apr 9 Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute, born in Munich, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1881)
Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858)
Apr 10 Commodore of the United States Navy who opened Japan to Western influence and trade, born in Newport, Rhode Island
- Apr 11 Edward Everett, American statesman and orator, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (d. 1865)
- Apr 12 Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry), born in Paris (d. 1847)
- Apr 15 Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist, born in Maureilhan, France (d. 1867)
- Apr 17 Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer, born in Erlangen, Germany (d. 1868)
- Apr 23 Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar and geographer of Qing Dynasty, born in Shaoyang, China (d. 1857)
- May 13 Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
- May 17 Anna Brownell Jameson, Anglo-Irish historian and writer (Loves of the Poets), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1860)
- May 23 (Isaac) Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian piano virtuoso, friend of Beethoven, teacher of Mendelssohn, conductor, and composer, born in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1870) [1]
- May 24 William Whewell, English polymath and philosopher (History of Inductive Science), born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England (d. 1866)
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877)
May 27 American shipping and railroad magnate (New York Central Railroad), born in Port Richmond, New York
- May 29 Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (published the most complete map of the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. with Wilhelm Beer), born in Berlin (d. 1874)
- Jun 28 Allen Frances Gardiner, British naval officer and Anglican missionary (Port Natal;, Zululand; Patagonia), born in Basildon, Berkshire, England (d. 1851)
- Jul 3 Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt), born in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1872)
- Jul 5 Sylvester Graham, Minister and noted vegetarian (developed Graham cracker), born in Suffield, Connecticut (d. 1851)
- Jul 14 John Gibson Lockhart [Scorpion], Scottish biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott), born in Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1854)
- Jul 24 Heinrich Christian Pander, Baltic German biologist and embryologist, born in Riga, Latvia (d. 1865)
- Jul 26 Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist, born in Husum, Denmark (d. 1865)
- Jul 28 Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician, and piano maker, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1859)
- Aug 10 Leopold Zunz, German Jewish scholar (Science of Judaism), born in Detmold (d. 1886)
- Aug 11 James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
- Aug 15 Elias M. Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum), born in Femsjö, Sweden (d. 1878)
- Aug 17 Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
- Aug 28 Johannes Zwijsen, Dutch archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands), born in Kerkdriel, Netherlands (d. 1877)
- Sep 9 William Lonsdale, English geologist and paleontologist (fossil coral), born in Bath, Somerset, England (d. 1871)
- Sep 29 William Michael Rooke, Irish composer and violinist, born in Dublin (d. 1847)
- Oct 10 William Whiting Boardman, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut), born in New Milford, Connecticut (d. 1871)
- Oct 13 Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1868)
- Oct 18 Ferdinand Schubert, Austrian organist, composer, and teacher, born in Vienna (d. 1859)
- Oct 23 Joseph Panny, Austrian violinist and composer, born in Kollmitzberg, Austria (d. 1838)
- Oct 24 Friedrich Balduin von Gagern, German-Dutch army commandant, born in Weilburg, Germany (d. 1848)
- Oct 26 Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (Grand Kremlin Palace), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1881)
- Nov 3 William Cullen Bryant, American poet (Thanatopsis), born in Cummington, Massachusetts (d. 1878)
- Nov 17 George Grote, British historian (History of Greece), born in Clay Hill, England (d. 1871)
- Nov 17 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), (d. 1873)
- Nov 23 Johan Frederik van Oordt, Dutch theologian (Groninger direction), born in Rotterdam (d. 1852)
- Dec 10 James Wolfe Ripley, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Windham County, Connecticut (d. 1870)
- Dec 14 Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (Mayor of Albany, New York), born in Norwich, Connecticut (d. 1872)
- Dec 22 Alexander Gordon Laing, Scottish explorer (1st European to reach Timbuktu), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1826)
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