Editing 1824 (section)

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:FriedrichSmetana.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Bedřich Smetana]]]]
[[File:Leland Stanford c1870s.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Amasa Leland Stanford]]]]
[[File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gustav Kirchhoff]]]]
[[File:Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney]]]]
[[File:Baron Kelvin 1906.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]]]]
* [[January 7]] – [[Julia Kavanagh]], Irish novelist (d. 1877)
* [[January 8]] – [[Wilkie Collins]], English novelist (d. 1889)
* [[January 15]] – [[Marie Duplessis]], French courtesan (d. 1847)
* [[January 21]] – [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson]], American Confederate general (d. 1863)
* [[January 26]] – [[Emil Czyrniański]], Polish chemist (d. 1888)
* [[February 7]] – [[William Huggins|Sir William Huggins]], British astronomer (d. 1910)
* [[February 8]] – [[Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr.]], American Confederate general (d. 1861)
* [[February 12]] – [[Dayananda Saraswati]], Hindu religious leader, Vedic scholar who founded the reform movement ''[[Arya Samaj]]'' (d. 1883)
* [[February 14]] – [[Winfield Scott Hancock]], American Civil War Union general, Democratic presidential candidate (d. 1886)
* [[February 27]] – [[Prince Kuni Asahiko]] of Japan (d. 1891)
* [[March 2]] – [[Bedřich Smetana]], Czech composer (d. 1884)
* [[March 9]] – [[Amasa Leland Stanford]], American tycoon, industrialist and politician, 8th [[Governor of California]] (d. 1893)
* [[March 12]] – [[Gustav Kirchhoff]], German physicist (d. 1887)
* [[March 19]] – [[William Allingham]], Irish author (d. 1889)
* [[March 22]] – [[Charles Pfizer]], German-American chemist, co-founder of ''[[Pfizer]]'' (d. 1906)
* [[March 25]] – [[Clinton L. Merriam]], American politician (d. 1900)
* [[March 26]] – [[Julie-Victoire Daubié]], French journalist (d. 1874)
* [[March 27]] – [[Johann Wilhelm Hittorf]], German physicist (d. 1914)
* [[April 6]] – [[George Waterhouse (politician)|George Waterhouse]], 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
* [[April 7]] – [[The boy Jones|Edward Jones]], trespasser who continually broke into [[Buckingham Palace]] (d. 1895)
* [[April 13]] – [[William Alexander (bishop)|William Alexander]], Anglican bishop, Primate of All Ireland (d. 1911)
* [[May 3]] – [[Pio Siotto]], Italian artist, cameo engraver (d. ?)<ref>{{cite web |title=Empress Victoria Cameo Brooch by Pio Siotto |url=https://antiquecameos.net/cameos/empress-victoria-shell-cameo-brooch-by-pio-siotto |website=antiquecameos.net |publisher=Antique Cameos |access-date=20 June 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – [[Tokugawa Iesada]], 13th ''[[shōgun]]'' of [[Tokugawa shogunate]] of Japan (d. 1858)
* [[May 9]] – [[Jacob ben Moses Bachrach]], noted Polish-born apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (d. 1896)
* [[May 23]] – [[Ambrose Burnside]], [[American Civil War]] general, [[Burnside carbine|inventor]], politician from [[Rhode Island]] (d. 1881)
* [[June 7]] – [[Bernhard von Gudden]], German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist (d. 1886) 
* [[June 8]] – [[Arthur von Mohrenheim]], Russian diplomat (d. 1906)
* [[June 20]] – [[George Edmund Street]], British architect (d. 1881)
* [[June 26]] – [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]], Irish-born physicist, engineer (d. 1907)
* [[June 27]] – [[Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney]], American writer, reformer, philanthropist (d. 1904)
* [[June 28]] – [[Paul Broca]], French physician, anthropologist (d. 1880)

=== July–December ===
[[File:Edward Cooper.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edward Cooper (mayor)|Edward Cooper]]]]
[[File:George MacDonald 1860s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[George MacDonald]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Casto Méndez Núñez]], Spanish admiral (d. 1869)
* [[July 12]] – [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (d. 1898)
* [[July 19]] – [[Horace Carpentier|Horace W. Carpentier]], American politician, 1st governor of [[Oakland, California]] (d. 1918)
* [[July 21]] – [[Stanley Matthews (judge)|Stanley Matthews]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. 1889)
* [[July 27]] – [[Alexandre Dumas, fils]], French writer (d. 1895)
* [[August 3]] – [[William Burnham Woods]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. 1887)
* [[August 7]] – [[Gideon T. Stewart]], American temperance movement leader (d. 1907)
* [[August 13]] – [[John J. Robison]], American politician in Michigan (d. 1897)<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |author-link= |date= 1891|title= Portrait and Biographical Album of Washtenaw County, Michigan: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of All the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVhfp1DVDDwC |location=[[University of Michigan]] |publisher= Biographical Publishing Company|page= 202|isbn=}}</ref>
* [[August 26]] – [[Marie Simon]], German nurse (d. 1877)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Venske |first=Ruth |date=August 25, 2009 |title=Biografie von Marie Simon (1824-1877) |trans-title=Biography of Marie Simon (1824-1877) |url=https://saebi.isgv.de/biografie/Marie_Simon_(1824-1877) |access-date=2023-08-26 |website=[[Sächsische Biografie]] |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 4]]
** [[Anton Bruckner]], Austrian composer (d. 1896)
** [[Phoebe Cary]], American poet, sister to Alice Cary (1820–1871) (d. 1871)
* [[September 27]] – [[Benjamin Apthorp Gould]], American astronomer (d. 1896)
* [[October 2]] – [[Henry C. Lord]], American railroad executive (d. 1884)
* [[October 5]] – [[Henry Chadwick (writer)|Henry Chadwick]], English-born American baseball writer, historian (d. 1908)
* [[October 18]] – [[Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano]], Spanish author (d. 1905)
* [[October 26]] – [[Edward Cooper (mayor)|Edward Cooper]], 83rd [[Mayor of New York City]] (d. 1905)
* [[October 27]] – [[Edward Maitland (writer)|Edward Maitland]], British writer (d. 1897)
* [[November 20]] – [[Sydenham E. Ancona]], American educator, politician and member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1861 to 1867 (d. 1913)
* [[November 24]] – [[Frederick Miller]], German-born American brewer, businessman (d. 1888)
* [[December 10]] – [[George MacDonald]], Scottish writer (d. 1905)
* [[December 11]] – [[Jonathan Letterman]], American surgeon, "Father of Battlefield Medicine" (d. 1872)
* [[December 14]] – [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], French painter (d. 1898)
* [[December 18]] – [[John Hall (New Zealand politician)|Sir John Hall]], 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1907)
* [[December 27]] – [[Charlotta Norberg]], Swedish ballerina (d. 1892)