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===July–December===
* [[July 4]] – King [[Oscar I of Sweden]] and Norway (d. 1859)<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar I {{!}} king of Sweden and Norway |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-I |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=December 15, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Michael Thomas Bass]], English brewer (d. 1884)
* [[August 12]]
** [[Francis Abbott]], Australian astronomer (d. 1883)
** [[Patrick MacDowell]], Irish sculptor (d. 1870)
* [[September 1]] – [[Ferenc Gyulay]], Hungarian nobleman, general, and governor  (d. 1868)
* [[September 8]] – [[James Bowman Lindsay]], Scottish inventor (d. 1862)
* September 10 – [[George Willison Adams]], American abolitionist (d. 1879)
* [[October 1]] – [[John Brown Russwurm]], [[Americo-Liberian people|Americo-Liberian]] journalist and governor of the African [[Republic of Maryland]] (d. 1851)<ref>{{cite book |last=James |first=Winston |title=The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm |year=2010 |location=New York, NY |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=978-0-8147-4289-1 |pages=25, 90, 105}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Christian Friedrich Schönbein]], German chemist (d. 1868)
* [[October 26]] – [[Margaret Agnes Bunn]], British actress (d. 1883)
* [[November 1]] – [[Thomas Baldwin Marsh]], American religious leader (d. 1866)
* [[November 7]] – [[James Syme]], Scottish medical reformer (d. 1870)
* [[November 29]] – [[Amos Bronson Alcott]], American philosopher, educator and writer, father of novelist [[Louisa May Alcott]] (d. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book|title = Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father|url = https://archive.org/details/edensoutcastssto00matt|url-access = registration|last = Matteson|first = John|author-link=John Matteson|year = 2007|publisher = W. W. Norton & Company|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-393-33359-6|page=13}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] – [[Peggy Eaton]], born Margaret O'Neill, wife of United States Secretary of State [[John Eaton (politician)|John Eaton]] and central character in the [[Petticoat affair]] (d. 1879)
* [[December 25]] – [[Manuel Bulnes]], Chilean general and politician, [[President of Chile]] (d. 1866)