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=== October–December === [[File:Philippe Suchard.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Philippe Suchard]] ]] [[File:Thurlow Weed - Project Gutenberg eText 13160.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Thurlow Weed]]]] [[File:Heinrich Heine-Oppenheim.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Heinrich Heine]]]] [[File:PORTRAIT OF CHARLES HODGE, Rembrandt Peale.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles Hodge]] ]] * [[October 1]] – [[Lewis Ruffner]], salt manufacturer from Malden, West Virginia (d. [[1883]]) * [[October 2]] – [[Jonathan Pitney]], American physician, promoter of Absecon Island as healing seashore resort (d. [[1889]]) * [[October 3]] ** [[Knud Ibsen]], father of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (d. [[1877]]) ** [[Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (d. [[1870]]) ** [[Hopkins L. Turney]], Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee (d. [[1857]]) * [[October 4]] ** [[Jeremias Gotthelf]], Swiss novelist (d. [[1854]]) ** [[Charles-Séraphin Rodier (mayor)|Charles-Séraphin Rodier]], Canadian merchant (d. [[1876]]) * [[October 5]] – [[John Gardner Wilkinson]], English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist (d. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jason Thompson|title=Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle.|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292785694|year=2010|page=1}}</ref> * [[October 6]] ** [[Albrecht Elof Ihre]], Swedish diplomat, Swedish-Norwegian prime minister of foreign affairs (d. [[1877]]) ** [[Charles Panet]], lawyer and political figure in Quebec (d. [[1877]]) ** [[Joseph Othmar Rauscher]], Austrian Prince-Archbishop of Vienna and cardinal (d. [[1875]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Peter Georg Bang]], Danish politician, jurist (d. [[1861]]) * [[October 8]] ** [[William H. DeLancey]], American Episcopal bishop (d. [[1865]]) ** [[Ludwig Förster]], German-born Austrian architect (d. [[1863]]) ** [[Charles Knapp (congressman)|Charles Knapp]], United States Representative from New York (d. [[1880]]) ** [[William Thomasson]], United States Representative from Kentucky (d. [[1882]]) * [[October 9]] ** [[Thomas Boutillier]], Quebec doctor, political figure (d. [[1861]]) ** [[Henry Collen]], English miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and the Duchess of Kent (d. [[1879]]) ** [[Philippe Suchard]], Swiss chocolatier, industrialist (d. [[1884]]) * [[October 10]] ** [[August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff]], Prussian diplomat (d. [[1874]]) ** [[Thomas Drummond]], British army officer, civil engineer, senior public official (d. [[1840]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois]], French naturalist (d. [[1876]]) * [[October 13]] ** [[George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797)|George Anson]], British military officer, Whig politician (d. [[1857]]) ** [[Thomas Haynes Bayly]], English poet (d. [[1839]]) ** [[Dong Haichuan]], Chinese martial artist, credited to be the founder of Baguazhang (d. [[1882]]) ** [[John H. McHenry]], United States House of Representatives (d. [[1871]]) ** [[William Motherwell]], Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist (d. [[1835]]) * [[October 14]] ** [[Jean Crespon]], French zoologist and naturalist (d. [[1857]]) ** [[Ida Laura Pfeiffer]], Austrian traveler and travel book author (d. [[1858]]) * [[October 15]] ** [[Johann Gottlieb Fleischer]], German botanist and ornithologist (d. [[1838]]) ** [[Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse]], German philologist (d. [[1855]]) ** [[William Siborne]], British officer and military historian whose most notable work was a history of the Waterloo Campaign (d. [[1849]]) * [[October 16]] – [[James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan]] (d. [[1868]]) * [[October 17]] ** [[Mario Aspa]], Italian composer (d. [[1868]]) ** [[Juan Lavalle]], Argentine military and political figure (d. [[1841]]) * [[October 18]] ** [[Gallus Jacob Baumgartner]], Swiss statesman and prominent federalist (d. [[1869]]) ** [[Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont]], French physician and psychiatrist (d. [[1881]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Littleton Kirkpatrick]], American Whig Party politician (d. [[1859]]) * [[October 20]] – [[José Bernardo Escobar]], interim President of Guatemala (d. [[1849]]) * [[October 21]] ** [[Thomas M. Allen (Missouri clergyman)|Thomas M. Allen]], clergyman who played a prominent role in establishing the Christian Church in Missouri (d. [[1871]]) ** [[William Hale (British inventor)|William Hale]], British inventor (d. [[1870]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Štefan Moyses]], Slovak bishop, teacher, patriot, co-founder and first chairman of ''Matica slovenská'' (d. [[1869]]) * [[October 25]] ** [[Crispino Agostinucci]], Italian Catholic bishop (d. [[1856]]) ** [[Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran]], first Police Commissioner and first Police Magistrate of South Australia (d. [[1870]]) * [[October 26]] ** [[Johann Adam Philipp Hepp]], German physician, lichenologist (d. [[1867]]) ** [[Luther Severance]], United States Representative, diplomat from Maine (d. [[1855]]) ** [[Antoine-Charles Taschereau]], Quebec official, political figure (d. [[1862]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Andrew Combe]], Scottish physician, phrenologist (d. [[1847]]) * [[October 28]] – [[James C. Curtis]], American lawyer, politician (d. [[1881]]) * [[October 30]] ** [[Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg]] (d. [[1829]]) ** [[Lott Warren]], United States Representative from Georgia (U (d. [[1861]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Benjamin H. Smith]], American politician from Virginia (d. [[1887]]) * [[November 1]] ** [[María Santos Corrales]], inspiration of Peru's famous poet and patriot soldier (d. [[1881]]) ** [[Michael Loam]], British (Cornish) engineer, introduced the first man engine to carry men up and down a mine shaft into the UK (d. [[1871]]) ** [[Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet]] of England (d. [[1861]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Baltazar Mathias Keilhau]], Norwegian geologist, mountain pioneer (d. [[1858]]) * [[November 3]] – [[Thomas Icely]], early colonial New South Wales landholder, stockbreeder (d. [[1874]]) * [[November 4]] – [[Carlo Blasis]], Italian dancer (d. [[1878]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Elisha H. Groves]], mid-level American LDS Church leader (d. [[1867]]) * [[November 6]] – [[Gabriel Andral]], French pathologist, professor at the University of Paris (d. [[1876]]) * [[November 13]] – [[Niklas Westring]], Swedish entomologist, arachnologist (d. [[1882]]) * [[November 14]] ** [[Moses M. Haarbleicher]], German-Jewish poet, critic (d. [[1869]]) ** [[Tilghman Howard]], U.S. Representative from Indiana (d. [[1844]]) ** [[Charles Lyell]], Scottish geologist (d. [[1875]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/lyell-charles |website=National Records of Scotland |access-date=28 October 2021 |language=English |date=31 May 2013}}</ref> ** [[Justus Radius]], German pathologist, ophthalmologist (d. [[1884]]) * [[November 15]] ** [[Leopold von Sonnleithner]], Austrian lawyer (d. [[1873]]) ** [[Thurlow Weed]], New York newspaper publisher, Whig and Republican politician (d. [[1882]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Isaac Funk]], American rancher and politician (d. [[1865]]) * [[November 18]] – [[Carl Reinhold Roth]], Swedish businessman, ironmaster (d. [[1858]]) * [[November 19]] ** [[Charles Anthon]], American classical scholar (d. [[1867]]) ** [[John Crenshaw]], American landowner (d. [[1871]]) ** [[Jesse Crowell]], pioneer settler in Michigan (d. [[1872]]) * [[November 20]] ** [[Mary Buckland]], English palaeontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator (d. [[1857]]) ** [[María de los Remedios de Escalada]], wife of the leader of the Argentine War of Independence (d. [[1823]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Anders Josef Europaeus]], Finnish priest, vicar (d. [[1870]]) * [[November 22]] – [[David Salomons]], leading figure in the struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom (d. [[1873]]) * [[November 23]] ** [[Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham]], British peer (d. [[1878]]) ** [[Benjamin Hale (educator)|Benjamin Hale]], American educator, clergyman (d. [[1863]]) * [[November 27]] – [[José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa]], Portuguese prelate (d. [[1862]]) * [[November 29]] ** [[Albert Day (politician)|Albert Day]], American politician, 27th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. [[1876]]) ** [[Gaetano Donizetti]], Italian composer (d. [[1848]]) * [[November 30]] ** [[Pierre-Martial Bardy]], Lower Canada teacher, doctor and political figure (d. [[1860]]) ** [[Otto Vincent Lange]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1870]]) * [[December 2]] – [[Benjamin F. Hallett]], Massachusetts lawyer, Democratic Party activist (d. [[1862]]) * [[December 3]] ** [[Margaretta Morris]], American entomologist (d. [[1867]]) ** [[Andrew Smith (zoologist)|Andrew Smith]], Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist (d. [[1872]]) * [[December 4]] ** [[Thomas Patterson Brockman]], member of South Carolina Senate and House of Representatives (d. [[1859]]) ** [[George Tupou I]], King of Tonga (d. [[1893]]) * [[December 5]] ** [[Steen Andersen Bille (1797–1883)|Steen Andersen Bille]], Danish vice-admiral and minister for the navy (d. [[1883]]) ** [[Eugène Soubeiran]], French scientist (d. [[1859]]) * [[December 6]] ** [[Károly Nagy]], Hungarian astronomer (d. [[1868]]) ** [[Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert]], French writer of historical fiction (d. [[1872]]) * [[December 7]] – [[Charles J. McCurdy]], American lawyer (d. [[1891]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Martin Martens]], Belgian botanist, chemist (d. [[1863]]) * [[December 9]] ** [[Michael Aikman (politician)|Michael Aikman]], Lower Canada businessman, political figure (d. [[1881]]) ** [[Thomas Davee]], United States Representative from Maine (d. [[1841]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Raffaele Fidanza]], Italian painter (d. [[1846]]) * [[December 11]] ** [[Alfred Dockery]], American Representative from North Carolina (d. [[1875]]) ** [[Hiram Paulding]], Rear Admiral in the United States Navy (d. [[1878]]) * [[December 12]] ** [[Lucy Anderson (musician)|Lucy Anderson]], English pianist (d. [[1878]]) ** [[Pierre Léonard Vander Linden]], Belgian entomologist (d. [[1831]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Heinrich Heine]], German poet (d. [[1856]]) * [[December 14]] ** [[Antonio Maria Cagiano de Azevedo]], Catholic Cardinal, holder of significant legal positions in the church (d. [[1867]]) ** [[Emil Huschke]], German anatomist, embryologist (d. [[1858]]) * [[December 15]] ** [[Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause]], German anatomist (d. [[1868]]) ** [[Joseph Lecompte]], United States Representative from Kentucky (d. [[1851]]) ** [[Erik Røring Møinichen]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1875]]) ** [[Andrew Tracy]], American politician (d. [[1868]]) * [[December 17]] ** [[Richard Cheslyn]], English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket (1825-1846) (d. [[1858]]) ** [[Joseph Henry]], American scientist (d. [[1878]]) * [[December 18]] ** [[August Friedrich Wilhelm Forchhammer]], jurist, historian from the Duchy of Schleswig (d. [[1870]]) ** [[Dirk van Hogendorp (1797–1845)|Dirk van Hogendorp]], Dutch jurist (d. [[1845]]) * [[December 19]] – [[Antoine Louis Dugès]], French obstetrician, naturalist (d. [[1838]]) * [[December 22]] ** [[Charles Fox (scientist)|Charles Fox]], English Quaker scientist (d. [[1878]]) ** [[Thomas Manders]], English actor-manager and low comedian (d. [[1859]]) ** [[William Benjamin Robinson]], Upper Canada fur trader and political figure (d. [[1873]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Adrien-Henri de Jussieu]], French botanist (d. [[1853]]) * [[December 24]] ** [[Robert Irwin Jr.]], American pioneer, territorial legislator (d. [[1833]]) ** [[Lewis Jones (Royal Navy officer)|Lewis Jones]], British Royal Navy officer (d. [[1895]]) * [[December 25]] ** [[Bernard Donald Macdonald]], second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (d. [[1859]]) ** [[Joseph-Marie Quérard]], French bibliographer (d. [[1865]]) * [[December 26]] ** [[Enoch Cobb]], Massachusetts farmer, businessman, philanthropist (d. [[1876]]) ** [[Johann Gustav Heckscher]], German politician (d. [[1865]]) ** [[Thomas M. Pettit]], United States lawyer (d. [[1853]]) ** [[Hans Skramstad]], Norwegian pianist and composer (d. [[1839]]) * [[December 27]] ** Mirza Beg Asadullah Khan ([[Mirza Ghalib]]), Indian poet (d.1868) ** [[Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos]] (d. [[1867]]) ** [[Charles Hodge]], Presbyterian theologian, principal of Princeton Theological Seminary (1851-1878) (d. [[1878]]) ** [[Manuela Sáenz]], Colombian national heroine (d. [[1856]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jerome R. Adams|title=Notable Latin American Women: Twenty-nine Leaders, Rebels, Poets, Battlers, and Spies, 1500-1900|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=1995|isbn=9780786400225|page=91}}</ref> * [[December 28]] ** [[Rodolphus Dickinson]], United States Representative from Ohio (d. [[1849]]) ** [[John Marshall (MP for Leeds, died 1836)|John Marshall]], English politician (d. [[1836]]) * [[December 29]] – [[François Leuret]], French anatomist, psychiatrist (d. [[1851]]) * ''approximate date'' – [[Sojourner Truth]], African-American abolitionist, women's rights activist (d. [[1883]])
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