Editing 1809 (section)

=== January&ndash;June ===
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[[File:Braille.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Louis Braille]]]]
[[File:Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Edgar Allan Poe]]]]
[[File:Empress sin-jung-ik2.PNG|thumb|100px|right|[[Queen Sinjeong]]]]
[[File:Mendelssohn Bartholdy.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Felix Mendelssohn]]]]
[[File:Georges-Eugène Haussmann - BNF Gallica.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Cao Bá Quát]], Vietnamese poet (d. [[1855]])
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Louis Braille]], French teacher, inventor of [[braille]] (d. [[1852]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Marie Durocher]], Brazilian obstetrician, physician (d. [[1893]])
* [[January 15]] 
** [[Cornelia Connelly]], American founder of the [[Society of the Holy Child Jesus]] (d. [[1879]])
** [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], French anarchist (d. [[1864]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Edgar Allan Poe]], American writer, poet (d. [[1849]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Henry Ingram|title=Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8dEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA449|year=1891|publisher=Ward, Lock, Bowden|pages=449}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Queen Sinjeong]], Korean regent (d. [[1890]])  
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Sophia Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute]], Scottish philanthropist (d. [[1859]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|publisher=F. Jefferies|year=1860|page=181}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Felix Mendelssohn]], German composer (d. [[1847]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Conway|first=David|title=Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-1-107-01538-8|page=194}}</ref>
* [[February 12]]
** [[Charles Darwin]], British naturalist (d. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Desmond|first=Adrian J.|title=Charles Darwin|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=13 September 2002|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-date=6 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206114419/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Abraham Lincoln]], 16th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1865]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Donald|first=David Herbert|author-link=David Herbert Donald|year=1996|title=Lincoln|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=New York, New York|url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=fuTY3mxs9awC}}|isbn=978-0-684-82535-9|pages=20–22}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Cyrus McCormick]], American inventor (d. [[1884]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[William Sprague (Michigan politician)|William Sprague]], American minister and politician from Michigan (d. [[1868]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel]], Prussian field marshal (d. [[1885]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Robert Cornelius]], [[Americans|American]] pioneer of photography (d [[1893]])<ref>{{cite book|title=American Journal of Photography, Volume 14|year=1893|publisher=Thos. H. McCollin & Company|page=420}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Abel Douay]], French general (d. [[1870]])
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Joseph Jenkins Roberts]], 2-time President of Liberia (d. [[1876]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Charlotte von Hagn]], German actress (d. [[1891]])<ref>{{in lang|de}} Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt: ''Joseph Stieler : 1781 – 1858. Sein Leben u. sein Werk. Krit. Verzeichnis d. Werke''. Prestel, München 1971, {{ISBN|3-7913-0340-6}}, S. 148 f</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Joseph Liouville]], French mathematician (d. [[1882]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]], French civic planner (d. [[1891]])
* [[March 29]] &ndash; [[Bettino Ricasoli]], Italian statesman (d. [[1880]])
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Gogol]], Russian writer (d. [[1852]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Worrall|title=Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEBdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=4 November 1982|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-16917-7|pages=2}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Hermann Grassmann]], Prussian mathematician (d. [[1877]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[James David Forbes]], Scottish physicist, geologist, inventor (d. [[1868]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Constantin A. Crețulescu]], 7th Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[1884]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Hugo von Kirchbach]], Prussian general (d. [[1887]])
* [[June 4]]
** [[Columbus Delano]], American statesman (d. [[1896]])
** [[John Henry Pratt]], English clergyman and mathematician (d. [[1871]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Richard Wigginton Thompson]], American politician (d. [[1900]])
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Juan Antonio Pezet]], Peruvian general and politician, [[President of Peru]] (d. [[1879]])
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch]], American minister, hymn writer (d [[1870]])
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Isaak August Dorner]], German theologian (d. [[1884]])
* [[June 21]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Wolff]], German political activist (d. [[1864]])
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[François Certain de Canrobert]], French general, [[Marshal of France]] (d. [[1895]])