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== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:HCA by Thora Hallager 1869.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Hans Christian Andersen]]]]
* [[January 8]] – [[Orson Hyde]], American religious leader (d. 1878)
* [[January 27]] – [[Samuel Palmer]], English artist (d. 1881)
* [[February 13]] – [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]], German mathematician (d. 1859)
* [[February 18]] – [[Louis M. Goldsborough]], United States Navy admiral (d. 1877)
* [[March 3]] – [[Jonas Furrer]], first [[President of the Swiss Confederation]] (d. 1861)
* [[March 14]] – [[Eduard Clam-Gallas]], Austrian general (d. 1891)
* [[March 22]] – [[Benito de Soto]], Galician pirate (executed 1830)
* [[March 23]] – [[Sears Cook Walker]], American mathematician, astronomer (d. 1853)
* [[March 26]] (alleged) – [[Shirali Muslimov]], Azerbaijani supercentenarian (d. 1973)
* [[April 2]] – [[Hans Christian Andersen]], Danish writer (d. 1875)
* [[April 8]] – [[Hugo von Mohl]], German botanist (d. 1872)
* [[April 21]] – [[James Martineau]], English religious philosopher (d. 1900)
* [[April 22]] – [[Benito de Soto]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galician]] pirate (d. 1830)
* [[June 9]] – [[José Trinidad Cabañas]], Honduran general, president and national hero (d. 1871)
* [[June 22]] – [[Giuseppe Mazzini]] Italian patriot, statesman and writer (d. 1872)

=== July–December ===
[[File:Fanny Hensel 1842.jpg|110px|thumb|right|[[Fanny Mendelssohn]]]]
[[File:Joseph Smith, Jr. portrait owned by Joseph Smith III.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Joseph Smith]]]]
[[File:Jeanne Deroin 1.jpeg|110px|thumb|right|[[Jeanne Deroin]]]]
* [[July 5]] – [[Robert FitzRoy]], English meteorologist, captain and politician (d. 1865)
* [[July 29]] – [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], French historian (d. 1859)
* [[July 30]] – [[Rudolf Wagner]], German anatomist, pathologist (d. 1864)
* [[August 4]] – [[William Rowan Hamilton]], Irish physicist (d. 1865)
* [[September 19]] – [[John Stevens Cabot Abbott]], American historian, pastor and pedagogical writer (d. 1877)
* [[September 27]] – [[George Müller]], Prussian evangelist, founder of the [[New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol]] in England (d. 1898)
* [[November 14]] – [[Fanny Mendelssohn]], German composer, pianist (d. 1847)
* [[November 28]] – [[John Lloyd Stephens]], American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (d. 1852)
* [[December 2]] – [[Cicero Price]], American commodore (d. 1888)
* [[December 10]] – [[William Lloyd Garrison]], American abolitionist (d. 1879)
* [[December 12]] – [[Henry Wells]], American businessman, founder of [[Wells Fargo]] (d. 1878)
* [[December 22]] – [[John Obadiah Westwood]], English entomologist (d. 1893)
* [[December 23]] – [[Joseph Smith]], American religious leader, founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] (d. 1844)
* [[December 31]] – [[Jeanne Deroin]], French socialist and feminist (d. 1894)

=== Undated ===
* [[Maiden of Ludmir]], Jewish religious leader (d. 1888)
* [[James Pratt (groom)|James Pratt]], last of two men to be executed in UK for homosexuality (d. 1835)
* [[Cochise]], Indigenous American (Apache) leader (d. 1874)
* [[Jesse Chisholm]], Indigenous American (Cherokee) fur trader and merchant (d. 1868)