Editing 1801 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Jane Baillie Carlyle (née Welsh) by Samuel Laurence detail.jpg|110px|right|thumb|[[Jane Welsh Carlyle]]]]
[[File:John Henry Newman by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Henry Newman]]]]
[[File:William H. Seward portrait - restoration.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William H. Seward]]]]
*[[January 3]] – [[Gijsbert Haan]], Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1874)
*[[January 10]] – [[Thierry Hermès]], German-born French businessman, founder of [[Hermès]] (d. 1878)
*[[January 11]] – [[Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná]], Brazilian politician (d. 1856)
*[[January 14]] – [[Jane Welsh Carlyle]], Scottish writer, wife of [[Thomas Carlyle]] (d. [[1866]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/1f4f4b32-0fea-3a1f-98d2-7b917a7ba7bb#|title=Correspondence of Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866)|website=JISC Archives Hub|access-date=22 February 2024}}</ref>
*[[February 1]]
** [[Jean-Baptiste Boussingault]], French chemist (d. 1887)
** [[Thomas Cole]], American artist (d. 1848)
*[[February 21]] – [[John Henry Newman]], English cardinal (d. 1890)
*[[March 15]] – [[George Perkins Marsh]], American diplomat, philologist and pioneer environmentalist (d. 1882)
*[[May 5]] – [[Pío Pico]], last Governor of Alta California (d. 1894)
*[[May 11]] – [[Henri Labrouste]], French architect (d. 1875)
*[[May 16]] – [[William H. Seward]], [[List of secretaries of state of the United States|24th]] [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. 1872)
*[[May 17]] – [[Lovisa Åhrberg]], first woman doctor, surgeon in Sweden (d. 1881)
*[[June 1]] – [[Brigham Young]], American Mormon leader, colonizer (d. 1877)
*[[June 5]] – [[William Scamp]], English architect and engineer (d. 1872)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hughes|first1=Quentin|last2=Thake|first2=Conrad|title=Malta, War & Peace: An Architectural Chronicle 1800–2000|date=2005|publisher=Midsea Books Ltd|isbn=9789993270553|page=250|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75IgAAAACAAJ|access-date=February 9, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801101149/https://books.google.com/books?id=75IgAAAACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[June 4]] – [[James Pennethorne]], English architect (d. 1871)
*[[June 14]] – [[Heber C. Kimball]], American religious leader (d. 1868)
*[[June 16]] – [[Julius Plücker]], German mathematician, physicist (d. 1868)
*[[June 30]] – [[Frédéric Bastiat]], French philosopher (d. 1850)

=== July–December ===
[[File:Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Queen of Prussia.jpg|thumb|110px|right| [[Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria]]]]
[[File:Hortense Allart.jpg|thumbnail|right|110px|Hortense Allart]]
[[File:Hermann von Meyer.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer]]]]
*[[July 5]] – [[David Farragut]], American admiral (d. [[1870]])
*[[July 14]] – [[Johannes Peter Müller]], German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (d. [[1858]])
*[[July 27]] – [[George Biddell Airy]], English mathematician, astronomer (d. [[1892]])
*[[September 1]] – [[Hortense Allart]], French writer (d. [[1879]])<ref>Helynne Hollstein Hansen, ''Hortense Allart : the woman and the novelist'', Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1998. Page xix</ref>
*[[September 3]] – [[Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer]], German palaeontologist (d. [[1869]])
*[[October 12]]
**[[Friedrich Frey-Herosé]], [[member of the Swiss Federal Council]] (d. [[1873]])
**[[Carl August von Steinheil]], German engineer, astronomer (d. [[1870]])
*[[October 23]] – [[Albert Lortzing]], German composer (d. [[1851]])
*[[November 3]]
** [[Karl Baedeker]], German author, publisher (d. [[1859]])<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Baedeker, Karl}}</ref>
** [[Vincenzo Bellini]], Italian composer (d. [[1835]])
*[[November 10]] – [[Vladimir Dal]], Russian lexicographer (d. [[1872]])
*[[November 13]] – Queen [[Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria]], queen of Prussia (d. [[1873]])
*[[December 11]] – [[Christian Dietrich Grabbe]], German writer (d. [[1836]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lob |first1=Ladislaus |editor1-last=Konzett |editor1-first=Matthias |title=Encyclopedia of German Literature. |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1135941222 |pages=362–3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uE4CQAAQBAJ&q=%22a+drunken+Shakespeare%22+Grabbe |accessdate=12 November 2019}}</ref>
*[[December 14]] – [[Joseph Lane]], American politician and general, 1st [[Governor of Oregon]] (d. 1881)

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Dai Xi]], Chinese painter (d. [[1860]])
* [[Brita Sofia Hesselius]], Swedish photographer (d. [[1866]])