- Dec 1 Philip Spencer, American sailor, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged aboard the USS Somers at 19
- Dec 5 Marie-Jean Auguste Vestris, French ballet dancer, dies at 82
- Dec 7 Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
- Dec 10 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, British general (fought with Wellington at Waterloo, Commander-in-Chief British army 1828), dies at 70
- Dec 12 Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist and philanthropist (built tabenacles), dies at 78
- Dec 25 Bedrich Divis Weber, Bohemian composer and musicologist, dies at 76
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