Editing 1808 (section)

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Carl Spitzweg.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Carl Spitzweg]]]]
[[File:Alexandre Cabanel 002.jpg|thumb|110px|right| [[Napoleon III]]]]
[[File:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Jefferson Davis]]]]
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Joseph Pitty Couthouy]], American naval officer and paleontologist (d. [[1864]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Washington |first=Biological Society of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSkUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Joseph+Pitty+Couthouy+january+6+1808&pg=PA108 |title=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |date=1888 |publisher=Biological Society of Washington |pages=108 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Salmon P. Chase]], American politician, [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (d. [[1873]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blue |first=Frederick J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wyxj7Y3Fh7AC |title=Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics |date=1987 |publisher=Kent State University Press |isbn=978-0-87338-340-0 |pages=1 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Lysander Spooner]], American philosopher (d. [[1887]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[David Strauss]], German theologian (d. [[1874]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Carl Spitzweg]], German painter (d. [[1885]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Honoré Daumier]], French painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. [[1879]])
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Edward "Ned" Kendall]], American bandleader, instrumentalist (keyed bugle) (d. [[1861]])
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Pierre-Louis Dietsch]], French composer, conductor (d. [[1865]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[José María Urvina]], 5th President of Ecuador (d. [[1891]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Maria Malibran]], née García, Spanish-French operatic singer (d. [[1836]])
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Antonio Meucci]], Italian-born inventor (d. [[1889]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Napoleon III]], Emperor of the French (d. [[1873]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-05 |title=Napoleon III {{!}} Biography, Significance, Death, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-III-emperor-of-France |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[William Strong (Pennsylvania judge)|William Strong]], American politician, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1895]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[John Scott Russell]], Scottish civil engineer (d. [[1882]])
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Venancio Flores]], general, president of [[Uruguay]] (d. [[1868]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo]], Dutch Talmudist (d. [[1890]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Gérard de Nerval]], French writer (d. [[1855]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Caroline Chisholm]], Australian humanitarian (d. [[1877]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Jefferson Davis]], [[President of the Confederate States]] (d. [[1889]])
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta]], French general and politician, first president of the Third Republic (1875–1879) (d. [[1893]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[James Frederick Ferrier]], Scottish [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] writer and philosopher (d. [[1864]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Henrik Wergeland]], Norwegian author (d. [[1845]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Abrahamsen |first=Samuel |date=1968 |title=The Exclusion Clause of Jews in the Norwegian Constitution of May 17, 1814 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4466405 |journal=Jewish Social Studies |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=67–88 |jstor=4466405 |issn=0021-6704}}</ref>
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Samson Raphael Hirsch]], German rabbi (d. [[1888]])