Editing 1802 (section)

=== January–June ===
[[File:Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Victor Hugo]]]]
[[File: Lydia Maria Child engraving.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Lydia Maria Child]]]]
[[File:Dix-Dorothea-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Dorothea Dix]]]]
* January 3 – [[Charles Pelham Villiers]], British politician (d. 1898)
* January 10 – [[Carl Ritter von Ghega]], Albanian-born Venetian road engineer (d. 1860)
* January 22 – [[Richard Upjohn]], English-American architect (d. 1878)
* February 6 – [[Charles Wheatstone]], English physicist, inventor (d. 1875)
* February 11 – [[Lydia Maria Child]], American abolitionist author (d. 1880)
* February 15 – [[Jean-Jacques Uhrich]], French general (d. 1886)
* February 16 – [[Phineas Quimby]], American physician (d. 1866)
* February 19 – [[Wilhelm Matthias Naeff]], Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
* February 26 – [[Victor Hugo]], French author (d. 1885)
* March 7 – [[Edwin Henry Landseer]], British painter (d. 1873)
* March 8 – [[Zebulon Crocker]], American congregationalist pastor (d. 1847)
* March 25 – [[Maria Silfvan]], Finnish actor (d. 1865)
* March 27 – [[Charles-Mathias Simons]], Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
* April 4 – [[Dorothea Dix]], American activist (d. 1887)<ref>{{cite book|first=Thomas J.|last=Brown|title=Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer|location=Cambridge MA|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0-67421-488-0|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x4TyaUg4qxAC|access-date=June 25, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207120914/https://books.google.com/books?id=x4TyaUg4qxAC|url-status=live}}</ref>
* April 9 – [[Elias Lönnrot]], Finnish folklorist, philologist who created the Finnish national epic, the ''Kalevala'' (d. 1884)
* May 2 – [[Heinrich Gustav Magnus]], German chemist, physicist (d. 1870)
* May 26 – [[Karl Ferdinand Ranke]], German educator (d. 1876)
* June 12 – [[Harriet Martineau]], British social theorist, writer (d. 1876)