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== Births ==
===January–June===
[[File:Carl Adolph von Basedow.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Carl Adolph von Basedow]]]]
[[File:Honoré_de_Balzac_(1842).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Honoré de Balzac]]]]
[[File:AleksandrPushkin.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Alexander Pushkin]]]]
* [[January 6]] – [[Jedediah Smith]], American fur trapper, explorer (d. 1831)
* [[January 12]] – [[Priscilla Susan Bury]], British botanist (d. 1872)
* [[January 23]] – [[Alois Negrelli]], Tyrolean engineer, railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire (1858)
* [[January 31]] – [[Rodolphe Töpffer]], Swiss teacher, author, and artist (d. [[1846]])<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle= Töpffer, Rodolphe|volume=27|last= Coolidge |first= William Augustus Brevoort |author-link= William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge | pages = 49&ndash;50 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[February 4]] – [[Almeida Garrett]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1854]])<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida |volume= 11  |last= Prestage |first= Edgar |author-link= Edgar Prestage | pages = 474&ndash;475 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[Basil Moreau]], founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (d. 1873)
* [[February 14]] – [[Walenty Wańkowicz]], Polish painter (d. 1842)
* [[February 17]] – [[Carl Julian (von) Graba]], German lawyer and ornithologist who visited the Faroe Islands (d. 1874)
* [[February 27]] – [[Edward Belcher]], British admiral (d. 1877)
* [[March 8]] – [[Simon Cameron]], American politician (d. 1889)
* [[March 16]] – [[Anna Atkins]], British botanist (d. 1871)
* [[March 22]] – [[Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander]], German astronomer (d. 1875)
* [[March 28]] – [[Karl Adolph von Basedow]], German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of [[Graves–Basedow disease]] (d. 1854)
* [[March 29]] – [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1869)
* [[April 12]] – [[Henri Druey]], Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
* [[April 17]] – [[Eliza Acton]], English poet and cookery writer (d. 1859)<ref>{{cite book |title=An encyclopedia of British women writers |date=1998 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |location=New Brunswick, N.J. |isbn=0813525438 |page=1 |edition=Rev. and expanded}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] – [[Philipp von Stadion und Thannhausen]], Austrian field marshal (d. 1868)
* [[May 20]] – [[Honoré de Balzac]], French author (d. 1850)<ref>{{cite book | last = Little | first = Iain | title = Honoré de Balzac, Le père Goriot | publisher = Longman | location = Harlow | year = 1984 | isbn = 9780582781863 | page=5}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – [[Mary Anning]], British paleontologist (d. 1847)
* [[May 25]] – [[Alexei Lvov]], Russian composer (d. 1870)
* [[June 3]] – [[Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti]], Italian botanist (d. 1879)
* [[June 6]] – [[Alexander Pushkin]], Russian author (d. 1837)
* [[June 18]] – [[Prosper Ménière]], French physician (d. 1862)
* [[June 25]] – [[David Douglas (botanist)|David Douglas]], Scottish-born botanist (d. 1834)

===July–December===
* [[July 4]] – King [[Oscar I of Sweden]] and Norway (d. 1859)<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar I {{!}} king of Sweden and Norway |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-I |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=December 15, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Michael Thomas Bass]], English brewer (d. 1884)
* [[August 12]]
** [[Francis Abbott]], Australian astronomer (d. 1883)
** [[Patrick MacDowell]], Irish sculptor (d. 1870)
* [[September 1]] – [[Ferenc Gyulay]], Hungarian nobleman, general, and governor  (d. 1868)
* [[September 8]] – [[James Bowman Lindsay]], Scottish inventor (d. 1862)
* September 10 – [[George Willison Adams]], American abolitionist (d. 1879)
* [[October 1]] – [[John Brown Russwurm]], [[Americo-Liberian people|Americo-Liberian]] journalist and governor of the African [[Republic of Maryland]] (d. 1851)<ref>{{cite book |last=James |first=Winston |title=The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm |year=2010 |location=New York, NY |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=978-0-8147-4289-1 |pages=25, 90, 105}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Christian Friedrich Schönbein]], German chemist (d. 1868)
* [[October 26]] – [[Margaret Agnes Bunn]], British actress (d. 1883)
* [[November 1]] – [[Thomas Baldwin Marsh]], American religious leader (d. 1866)
* [[November 7]] – [[James Syme]], Scottish medical reformer (d. 1870)
* [[November 29]] – [[Amos Bronson Alcott]], American philosopher, educator and writer, father of novelist [[Louisa May Alcott]] (d. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book|title = Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father|url = https://archive.org/details/edensoutcastssto00matt|url-access = registration|last = Matteson|first = John|author-link=John Matteson|year = 2007|publisher = W. W. Norton & Company|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-393-33359-6|page=13}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] – [[Peggy Eaton]], born Margaret O'Neill, wife of United States Secretary of State [[John Eaton (politician)|John Eaton]] and central character in the [[Petticoat affair]] (d. 1879)
* [[December 25]] – [[Manuel Bulnes]], Chilean general and politician, [[President of Chile]] (d. 1866)

=== Date unknown ===
* [[James Townsend Saward]], English barrister, forger
* [[Domnița Rallou Caragea]], Greek princess, independence activist (d. 1870)