Editing 1826 (section)

== Births ==
=== January–June ===
[[File:Kramskoj - saltykov-schedrin.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]]]]
[[File:Karl XV 1865 fotograferad av Mathias Hansen.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles XV of Sweden]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Mikhail Loris-Melikov]], Russian statesman, general (d. [[1888]])
* [[January 12]] – [[William Chapman Ralston]], American banker, financier (d. [[1875]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Marie Pasteur]], French chemist (d. [[1910]])
* [[January 24]] – [[William Daniel (Maryland politician)|William Daniel]], [[American temperance movement]] leader (d. [[1897]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Louis Favre (engineer)|Louis Favre]], Swiss engineer (d. [[1879]])
* [[January 27]]
** [[Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]], Russian writer (d. [[1889]])
** [[Richard Taylor (Confederate general)|Richard Taylor]], American Confederate general (d. [[1879]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Robert F. R. Lewis]], American naval officer (d. [[1881]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Walter Bagehot]], English economist and journalist (d. [[1877]])
* [[February 7]] – [[James Edward Jouett]], American admiral (d. [[1902]])
* [[February 9]] – [[John A. Logan]], American soldier, political leader (d. [[1886]])
* [[February 15]] – [[George Johnstone Stoney]], Anglo-Irish physicist (d. [[1911]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen]], Danish chemist (d. [[1909]])
** [[Joseph Victor von Scheffel]], German poet (d. [[1886]])
** [[Julia Grant]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1902]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Joseph Wharton]], American industrialist (d. [[1909]])
* [[March 4]]
** [[John Buford]], American general (d. [[1863]])
** [[Theodore Judah]], American railroad engineer (d. [[1863]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Matilda Joslyn Gage]], American [[feminism|feminist]] (d. [[1898]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Wilhelm Liebknecht]], German journalist, politician (d. [[1900]])
* [[April 3]] 
** [[Cyrus K. Holliday]], cofounder of [[Topeka, Kansas]], first president of the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] (d. [[1900]])
** [[Reginald Heber]], English priest (b. 1783)<Ref>{{cite book|last= Hughes|first= Derrick|title= Bishop Sahib: A Life of Reginald Heber|publisher= Churchman Publishing|location= [[Worthing]], UK|year= 1986 | isbn = 978-1-85093-043-3 |pages=178&ndash;180}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[Gustave Moreau]], French painter (d. [[1898]])
* [[May 3]] – King [[Charles XV of Sweden]] and [[Norway]] (d. [[1872]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Frederic Edwin Church]], American painter (d. [[1900]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Varina Davis]], [[First Lady]] of the [[Confederate States of America]] (d. [[1906]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Miguel Ângelo Lupi]], Portuguese painter (d. [[1883]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin]], Swiss international women's rights activist, pacifist  (d. [[1899]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Richard Christopher Carrington]], English astronomer (d. [[1875]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Benjamin Gratz Brown]], American politician (d. [[1885]])
* [[June 24]] – [[George Goyder]], surveyor-general of [[South Australia]] (d. [[1898]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Warren F. Daniell]], American politician (d. [[1913]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Ozra Amander Hadley]], American politician (d. [[1915]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist.jpg|110px|thumb|[[August Ahlqvist]]]]
[[File:Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann.jpeg|thumb|right|110px|[[Bernhard Riemann]]]]
[[File:Carlo Collodi.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Carlo Collodi]]]]
* [[July 4]]
** [[Stephen Foster]], American songwriter, poet (d. [[1864]])
** [[Green Clay Smith]], [[American temperance movement]] leader (d. [[1895]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Benjamin Grierson]], American Civil War general (d. [[1911]])
* [[July 31]] – [[William S. Clark]], American chemist, 3rd President of the [[Massachusetts Agricultural College]] (d. [[1886]])
* [[August 7]] – [[August Ahlqvist]], Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the [[Finno-Ugric languages]], author, and literary critic (d. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/3105
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* [[August 11]] – [[Andrew Jackson Davis]], American spiritualist (d. [[1910]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Carl Gegenbaur]], German anatomist, professor (d. [[1903]]) 
* [[September 8]] – [[Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1891]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Bernhard Riemann]], German mathematician (d. [[1866]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Emily Blackwell]], American physician (d. [[1910]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Léopold Victor Delisle]], French [[medievalist]] and Administrator General of the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|Bibliotheque Nationale]]
* [[November 10]] – [[Jacob Hamburger]], German rabbi and author (d. [[1911]])<ref>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|article=HAMBURGER, JACOB|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7132-hamburger-jacob}}</ref>
* [[November 24]] – [[Carlo Collodi]], Italian writer (d. [[1890]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Jonathan Young (commodore)|Jonathan Young]], United States Navy commodore (d. [[1885]])
* [[December 3]] – [[George B. McClellan]], American general, politician (d. [[1885]])
*[[December 8]] – [[John Brown (servant)|John Brown]], Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria (d. [[1883]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Cetshwayo kaMpande]], Zulu king (d. [[1884]])
* [[Ellen Morton Littlejohn]], American quilter (d. 1899)